My favorite unit we did this year had to be "The
Road". I enjoyed the road, because unlike with some of the others units we
did, we discussed and reflected what happened in the Road day by day, for
example: After the father killed the man, we discussed what the boy and the
father would be feeling internally and then discussed how they are displaying
it internally. It involved more discussion and I feel that made most of the
class emotionally attached to it, which later showed in the effort we put into
our presentations. My least favorite unit we studied this year had to be
"A midsummer's Nights dream" this is for the reason that, although
the literature in it was great and comprehensive, it was often hard to
understand what was going on in the story without having a teacher explain it
and translate what Shakespeare said in the story. This as a result made it
harder to relate to the story in other assignments such as Critical and
Personal Responses. In addition to that; because we did not really understand
what was going on in the story at times, it became hard to have discussions
where we could reflect on our opinions in the story. In addition to that we
watched the movie at the same time we were reading the book, and they both had discrepancies
so sometimes it was hard to remember which scenes came from the book and which
came from the movie, which presented as a challenge when doing assignments
based on those. If there was anything I would improve in future English 20-1
classes, it would be to have more debates going on, where people with different
opinions on a certain topic would debate why their opinions are better or more
valid than other ones. I feel we didn`t do much of that this year, and we just
followed the general opinion of the class rather than getting the opinions of
others, who could have also then changed the opinions of the class.
