Genre Reflection 2
My Thoughts When I Was A Freshman in English
What time is it?
2:10!
How can I have only been siting here for ten
minutes?
Oh here comes Mr.
Irby…
That comb over isn’t
fooling anyone.
Sigh this class is so
boring…
All he does is drone on
and on and on and on and on
Oh what are we
learning about today?
Shakespeare? Snore.
WHO CARES ABOUT A
DUDE FROM HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO?
Ohhhhh…. Megan Graber
is looking at me…. YES!!! She is beautiful! Her smile… am I blushing?
Those green eyes are
like sparkling emeralds.
Her blond hair looks
like silk, I wonder if it’s soft like suede? Maybe silk?
She just laughed!
It’s like sweet music….
I think I love her….….Sigh
Uhoh Mr. Irby is
looking at me.
“Austin, what do you
think?”
Uh-oh I wasn’t paying
attention…
Lord, I promise to
pay attention from here on out if you please don’t let me make a fool of
myself.”
“Austin! What do you
think Shakespeare is trying to convey here in this character?”
Oh crap, Megan is
looking at me…SHE’S SMILING!!! I gotta be smooth with my answer. I need to impress her! Was this why she was
laughing?
“Well Mr. Irby, is he
trying to convey that this character is a man?”
“No Mr. Mann, Juliet
is most certainly not a man…”
Well everyone’s
laughing….
I’m just gong to hide
forever, Megan will never talk to me now!
OK TIME HAD TO HAVE
PASSED…
2:11!!!!! This just
isn’t fair.
This is
a dialogue of my thoughts from when I was a student in high school. Freshman
year to be exact. This was Mr. Irby’s Freshman English class, and he was one of
my most boring teachers, or so I thought. I later had Mr. Irby again for Senior
English, but this time I paid attention, and I realized, I turned myself off
from learning because I didn’t give the subject matter a chance. It’s important
to get students interested in the material, but it is not always easy. Those
that did pay attention to Mr. Irby’s Freshman English class said I was crazy
for thinking it was boring, because he made the material fun and fresh. That’s
why this reflection means so much to me. I don’t want my students to tune me
out just because they don’t like the subject matter.
