English Question

I would like to extend to you, my hard-working and brilliant students, this opportunity to reflect on our English 1 web online summer course and the work you have accomplished by sharpening your critical thinking skills and engaging in various arguments about our commercialized food systems, food access, food deserts, farming, and our “food webs” – which all begin with the health of the soil itself and economic health and wellbeing of all of our communities. As you work on this end-of-the-term persuasive essay, examining your progress in our course, consider how you benefit from this self-reflection as a writer and a critical thinker. But remember that I also benefit. I often would come to the end of the summer intersession wondering despairingly, “What did we accomplish?” After reading your reflections, I would create new lessons and sharpen my own approach to class discussions and symposiums that will carry to many semesters to come. For you, my dear students, it provides a way of thinking about language arts skills that gives a bigger picture to your understanding of your progress in our course. My goal for you to address the class as a whole. I understand that reflection of any kind is often difficult for students, and teachers’ demands for reflection can be vague and frustrating. While this persuasive essay is also reflective, it has a very direct and business-like tone. This, I hope, will offer you the great benefits of an assignment that elegantly combines reflection, persuasion, review, craft and detail, and the course evaluation. As you craft your reflection, provide supporting details and examples to make your reflection not only convincing but, most importantly, honest. Length: at least 3-4 pages + incorporate at least one TED Talk I posted in this module Here are some of the questions that will help you brainstorm and write this reflective essay: Requirements: 3-4 pages Based on the quality of your writing and the quality of the academic work you submitted for our English 1 online class, what grade do you think you deserve in our course this intersession and why? How did your writing improve (support your answer with specific examples)? What new concepts you’ve learned about? What editing skills you’ve mastered? What lessons or discussions or TED Talks you’ve thought were useful and why? What writing prompts and revision techniques you found particularly valuable and why? What reading and writing habits you have developed or changed? What you’ve learned from the class overall? What are some challenges, difficulties, and hardships you’ve overcome or are working to overcome this intersession? How can what you learned help others? What motivates you when you are the most productive academically? What is something you accomplished this intersession that you’re proud of? What advice would you give yourself three years ago? Three years from now?