This group project was such an interesting experience.  In group projects in high school, people were always slow and disorganized; to make matters worse, most times I had group projects, they were in non-honors classes, so the people I would get paired with never really worked that hard so I end up doing a lot of work since I do not want them to mess up my grade.  But this group project was entirely different.  I was taken aback by how well everyone communicated what needed to be done and how everyone delegated tasks.  Everyone worked so hard that I felt like I was not doing enough!  One thing that really stood out to me was that even when we were assigned something, everyone still wanted to help out with the other assignments.  Back in high school, people were given a part to do and would leave and do only that; but in this one, everyone wanted to do more and help each other, which I had never seen happen before!  I truly admire the work ethic of all my group members and hope that I was as good as a member as they all were to me!

I really loved the class overall.  Prior to taking it, I never read the news or cared about what was going on in the world or anything.  Admittedly, when I first actually realized that the class was about civic issues, I was kind of like “oh man, what did I get myself into?”  But this turned out to be one of my favorite classes!  I always loved reading the articles because they always had such interesting takes on issues.  I had to send a few of them to my parents to read because I thought they were so good!  This class also helped me to mature as a person since the majority of adults seem to know about these issues and talk about them.  Actually, my parents took me with them over Thanksgiving break to this dinner with a few of my dad’s business friends and at one point they started talking about not standing for the national anthem and I could actually talk to them about it!  And everyone there was over 50 years old!  When we got home, my mom said she was so proud of me because I can speak so comfortably with adults and she could not do that until she was almost 30!  I also liked how the class uses so many different mediums for projects.  Usually, english classes just focus on essays with the occasionally powerpoint presentation; but this class used everything from blogs to essays to speeches to videos, which I thought was really cool.  My personal favorites were the blogs since it was fun to express my ideas on the things that we read and to blog about my hair since I honestly have always wanted to do that!  It was also fun to read other peoples since the food ones were some of my favorites (and I read on someone’s blog the last time that Baby’s had really good milkshakes so I took my friends their later that day and we all loved it)!  I cannot wait to see what next semester has in store!