Closing Statement

Overall I think that English 1A is a very valuable learning experience for me.  I can see my improvement in both reading and writing.  The classroom culture of this class is very different from my previous ESL class or even English classes in high school.  The “cocktail” party, think/pair, inquiry group, book club discussion etc., made learning more easier.  Personally, these interactive activities simulate my thoughts over certain topics a lot, since I got to know more what my classmate’s are thinking about, and sometimes their opinions inspired me to take a new angle of taking a certain issue.  I remember at the beginning of starting a new essay chapter, I thought that this class’s workload is very heavy.  The loads of pre-writing exercises, critiques, journals made me feel very stressful.  However, every time I started writing the exploratory draft, I had a relieved feeling since I found that the pre-writing assignments had actually helped me a lot to start off forming the tiny bites of thoughts in gathering to a formal essay organization.   This made me had the lesson that having a tougher start can enjoy a return of a more relaxing writing progress.  I treasure every single techniques and skills that I acquired in this class, and I hope these knowledge can lead me to a greater success in the future college writing and reading.