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John H. Johnson
the greater the triumph."
John H. Johnson
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Reflection: My English Comp. Class
My few first few attendance in the English Composition class were strange and different from other classes because of the things my lecturer asked us to do. The first one was for us students to write things about ourselves and drop on the lecturer’s table which were later exchanged with other students. Once the student that picks your paper reads what is written, the class would guess who has the paper. I have attended different classes at different times in my life and it has always been the same traditional way of attending classes. The most unique thing that could happen would be for the teacher or lecturer to ask us students to introduce ourselves, which would end there without further interaction with anybody except otherwise fate brings two people together to become friends, other than that you may not have any closeness. Interestingly, in my English Composition class as anchored by my amiable lecturer, used the above introduced caption to bring the class together as one happy family called “the discourse community” which is different from the traditional student-to-student or student-to-lecturer relationship. After the first experience other things started coming up weekly which made the class become more interesting and lively. We have been doing lots of emotional writing that are helping students bring up personal issues and life experiences. My lecturer could ask us to write about our personal objects or come up with things that would bring out the best in an individual students, he also encourages use to do things and at the same time praise you for the effort you are putting in as students. He has helped us become friendly to one another in class. Any time I come across other students we always stop to say “hi” to one another because I realized that a kind of bond has been created among us students. We do not feel ashamed sharing our personal issues in the class or on our individual blog pages as a result of the fact that we see ourselves as one family or members of a discourse community. I usually look forward to attending classes every week because of the joy I personally derive for being around my classmates and lecturer. It is so emotional and fulfilling being in class because of the way we hug ourselves, smile and render assistance to one another within and outside class. Unfortunately, this is not the only class I attend but it will always be the class that changed my life as per relationships with classmates. I would wish that the School authority can make such innovative idea compulsory in every class so as to create good relationship among student, help reshape individual emotional state, thereby eradicating or minimizing emotional bottle-up in an individual student that could lead to drug use, suicidal, shooting or other negative vices. I personally benefited from what my lecturer made us do in class because I was relieved of the emotional stress I was carrying with me I look forward to keeping the relationship going among us students while we organize a reunion ten (10) years after this class as members of the discourse community, with our lecturer present. This can be achieved by collecting individual details while we create a database. I would also make use of the opportunity I got from this class into other areas like my job and business or with other close friends and family members.
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