Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 201 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Reaction to class

My reaction to the first class was engaging. I haven’t taken an English class in a while, let alone a creative writing class. I enjoyed that the professor involved us in making decisions together and didn’t just address us as individuals. I also thought it was cool that he shared his book with us and asked us about our opinions, it really made me feel like students make the same impact on teachers as the teachers do on students. This interaction with teacher and student was different and felt the teacher wants to work with us so we could learn and love to write. In other english classes the professor usually expects the student to do their own work and be on their own but this professor wants to work as a group and i enjoyed that. I also enjoyed starting my own fiction story for resonant image. I like the fact of choosing an object and creating a story. It helped me come back to the fact that I love writing whatever comes to my mind and I appreciate that we weren’t limited on subjects to write about like it usually is in most english classes. While in class we read the story Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek. I didn’t expect the story to be interesting having a name such as Pet Milk especially when the story started the way it did. in the beginning i thought it was really going to be a story just about pet milk which seemed to be cheap milk but as the story carried on it was catching my attention. The ending of the story was what caught my attention, I really enjoyed how the story changes when the characters are in the train i never expected that to happen.  

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