This will be my final post of the semester so I wanted to close with some thoughts on this past semester. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know several of my classmates through the Db and blog posts. I have also thoroughly enjoyed the readings I was introduced to during the course of this class and appreciate what I will be moving forward with in my future classes and career as an English teacher.
As I've said before, I've gotten several ideas, such as implementing Ms. Rain's journal idea in some form in my classroom, and wonder if anyone else who plans to teach will take any ideas with them specifically because of this class.
I also wonder what your favorite book/poem/movie of the entire semester has been.
My favorites have been The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Push. I also enjoyed the Langston Hughes poetry, because I've never been exposed to it before. I guess with the current emphasis on testing, teachers don't get to delve into multi-cultural literature so much these days.
I hope to share some of these things with my future students so they can learn some of what I have learned about multi-cultural literature and about racial prejudice in general. I have a newfound respect for multi-cultural authors and I look at people very differently now because of this class.
I hope others have been impacted in some way as well, and I hope you will take this (final) opportunity to share on the blog.
I also really enjoyed The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. I think it was my favorite thing that we read this semester. It was so funny and honest, and I liked the drawings. I will be very likely to read more of Alexie's work in the future.
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Good luck with the rest of college, Ashley, Liz, and Kara! :)