Future Student Work

As an English teacher, I will, of course, will expect my students to conduct a lot of reading and writing. It is so important to me that my students learn how to think critically and therefore understand how to pick apart a piece of writing and analyze it for certain components and ultimately, be able to apply the text's themes to a real world existence. In most cases, the way they will demonstrate this capability will be through writing responses, essays and papers. But in non-tangible production, they will demonstrate their critical thinking capabilities through group discussion, answering questions in class and giving public speeches. Although at first, the intended audience of these things may seem like the teacher, in the end, it's the students themselves who learn from their own writing. The process of dissecting literature and then reformatting it into your their observations is a method that teaches the very writer something about the text and ultimately about universal truths and humanity. That's what I love so much about English; the entire development toward being able to read for both enjoyment and exploration at the same time is self-improving and builds on multiple emotional facets such as empathy, cultural understanding and problem solving. The actual process of reading and responding isn't meant for the teacher or parent or principal at all, but for the student to realize that they can discover meaning in presumably indecipherable texts.