June 27, 2012
Reflective Letter
To: Estephania
Maupome
Writing is a skill that you have to achieve by learning; you
did not born with it. The most important thing that you learn in this class was
the amazing confidence you build towards writing essays. You lost the fear and
did not give up. That was the main goal for this class, being able to write.
At the beginning of the class I remember you were very
nervous because you felt that you were going to fail the class again. The topic
of self-identification was the key to let your mind open and free with ideas,
and that you are unique. Yes, society has been shaping you and so far has been
for good. What you learn in how the identity is form is important to keep
forever. It shape you to believe in yourself that you can do it; just like Rose
Guibalt, learning English was not a barrier in her life, she became an amazing
journalist. Your critical thinking became your friend and you started to melt
the ice between writing and you. In this chapter you were learning to maintain
focus on the questions and to write adequate.
You were a deviant for not wanting to change your essay to
make it look better; you committed grammatical errors and your second essay was
not that pleasant. Criminal, you know we are all criminals. However; you learn
that in Juvenile System gives some chances to few people and you got the chance
to improve, your paragraph structure was getting better as well your focus on
the topic. You became a critical thinker. In this part of the class you learned
of how to make a better outline to focus more in what you were going to write
about.
In this phase of the class, you got to teach the class about
gender inequality in which gave you the opportunity to learn more about prompts
and how to use them. The main thing of
this exercise was to be in two different positions and learn in two different
ways, by teaching and by listening. The goal of it was to ask questions,
without it there would be no way of learning. From this you are going to apply
this method towards school, work and general life.
Having the idea of being able to write an essay about the
topic that most intrigue you was the greatest opportunity you had to express
yourself towards the immigration issue. You had to do research; you learn to
choose which resources were good and not always search on Wikipedia because we
do not know if is a fact.
I think you did really well in this assignment; you really
put all your knowledge together and that will pay off.
I have been watching you grow academically, and I am so
proud of you. You pulled it off and made it to the end, go ahead and give a pat
in your back. What is the most important is that you learn to focus and to put
attention to any detail, plus your critical thinking grew. I really want to
thank the Professor who thought you how to write and focus adequately and also
because he made you break your barriers of fear of writing essays. I am proud
of you.
Sincerely;
Me
P.S. Thank you Mr.
Brian Lewis for believe on me and for teaching me to believe in myself; I can do it.
Thank you.
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