Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 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.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Reflection

This was one of my most memorable classes till date. Despite the tremendous amount of writing that was required, it has helped us to create stories, get feedback from our classmates and explore our writing skills. Last night's class was bitter sweet. Having a farewell party was wonderful. Thank you Professor. Congrats to everyone that read last evening, I know that we all feel delighted to share what we wrote for others to hear.

The reading started off inspiring with the clip that Abraham Spiegel played for us.

Followed by one of Christian McKinzie’s story, I loved the picture he painted for us, the descriptions were excellent. His story was suspenseful. I personally liked how he wrote the story and the conversation between the characters; Quinn and the doctor. It was really cool for him to also add that Quinn got upset with the doctor as if he wanted to blame someone, it added good real content to the story. I had a conversation once with Daphne and I knew that she took great pride in perfecting her stories. She always explores and go beyond the simple expectations and tap into challenging twists and turns, sure enough she presented us with a story that had two different point of views. Her description of physical abuse seemed professional as if she was at the level of writing for a TV series. Ruth stories are always impeccable as well. Cristian Ramirez’s writing skills reminded me of stories in BASS.

I liked the books we read, we started off light and then got to the long stories. The “rawness” of the words in the stories gave us the liberty to say what we wanted in ours. I am not sure what book I will be reading this summer, but it might be The Law of Attraction after being reminded of how great the book is in Ingrid’s story.


Thank you classmates and most of all Professor for making us brighter. 

1 comment:

  1. Well said Rose! "Bitter Sweet" is the perfect way to describe the end of our final class...
    Charles

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