Aditi Lohe blog post #26

I had a great time in your class this year; it was a nice balance between work and fun. We did a variety of activities in your class that helped us learn how to mature our writing techniques. Some that I thought were effective were:
-going over our essays in class as a group
-doing the analysis sheets
-the socratic seminars (though i think we should have done these all throughout the year instead of just at the end)
-reading essays that were nines

Something I do think you should change is how you organized the amount of time we went over each essay type. I think that in the first semester you should set a certain amount of time to go over and learn about each of the essays individually and how to approach them. However in the second semester, I think you should alternate between doing the three types of essays in a cycle; this way no one will forget how to write an analysis or synthesis essay by the end of the year. And lastly, I think you should give practice multiple choice tests and essays more than just once month. this will help to better prepare your students because the AP test will always be on their mind, whereas sometimes for us, I would laze off. However all in all, I thoroughly enjoyed your class and I am thankful to you for all I have learned!