This year as a sophomore for me was a whole new English experience that I never really expected would have happened. The way that it felt like much of our English class was self taught was amazing. There were certain times where a project would be given to us and we would not even really be told how to do it. We would have to go home and work hard at trying to figure out what to do. Most of the time it would end up that things were done right, but there were other frustrating times were things were done totally wrong. The digital portfolios were great ideas in the beginning but the why that everything was presented to us and brought about made it one of the most horrible experiences. I often would get frustrating with the portfolio projects and I would have no one to go to because no matter who I went to they did not have the answers for me. Hours were spent where things never got accomplished because I was always running around trying to get answers. This in many ways really developed me as a thinker because I had to find new ways of getting answers and finding information. Although frustrating the digital portfolios seemed to have really no point to me. I do not think that anyone on the web is going to go on and look at my web page. If I were someone looking on the web I would not even go on my page. I do not think that the idea of the digital portfolio’s was a good one at all, mainly because they were never explained to us. I think that there should have been a choice as to whether students wanted to do them or not. Maybe I do not at all want my work on the web for others to see, if this was the case, which it partially was, then there would have been no choice for me.

As a writer I have developed mainly on my own. I have learned to write a good, strong research paper. This process was also stressful to me because once again not much of anything was explained to me. I do not enjoy having to write a paper with basically no knowledge on how to do it. I eventually did learn how to write the paper but it was all self taught. As a writer I have also learned how to write in bulk. This year in English so many papers have been given to us. It has been hard to keep up at times but overall the good amount of work was good. The only thing that annoyed me about the work was that all of these assignments were handed in on-time but yet they were never given back to me on-time. The papers would sit ungraded for long periods of time.

Overall this year in English has developed me but not as much as I feel that it could have. I have gotten frustrating with many projects to the extent that I did not even feel like doing them. I have developed but the fact is that I do not feel as if I have learned that much this year in English. The year was really intense and maybe a few less projects would have made it more easy going so that some more work could have been focused on better.