Post #4

In English class I've realized that we do a lot of Hispanic and Spanish based readings, and I don't really like them.Spanish is not my language and I find it very confusing. Can't we do different readings , I rather read about white people than more about Hispanic based stories. I get that these stories you pick for the class have a general message and social issue but I'm pretty sure other races have the same problems or at least similar problems. So today we had the in-class essay and I feel as if I could have done better because I think I answered the question but I could have done better backing up my main argument. I realized I don't write that well when its on the spot, I need time to process my thoughts and I did do a map during the pre-writing. But as I wrote the essay I realized my thoughts were repetitive so then I needed to come up with something else to write about that relates to my main idea. Are we going to do more of reading just plain novels or we going to do something different, like the graphic novels? If we are doing something different I can't wait!! But I do feel that I've learned to get my thought down faster, and in a way, when I do finish earlier I will have that time to go back and fix up the parts I'm missing in my essay or go back to re-read my work and catch some careless mistakes I make.