English Class Reflective Essay
This semester has had a lot of work especially in English II, but I’m glad it was like that because I have learned a lot in my English class. I’ll be talking about a few things that I learned this semester. Like discrimination, debating, and how to convince people to change their mind about something.
In the beginning of this class I learned about discrimination, which is when people treat others different because of their skin color. In the book “The Secret Life of Bees,” the main character, who is white, has a babysitter who is black which one day goes out to the town to sign a paper that would help black on something. On the way there a white guy comes and starts making fun of her because she was black, so then she spit at the guy’s shoe …show more content…
In the movie, “12 Angry Men” there were 12 men who were deciding whether this guy was guilty or not and 11 of them chose guilty and only one chose not guilty. Then the guy who chose not guilty started giving examples on why the guy wasn’t guilty, although he may be wrong he still made points that were very justable and convince the other 11 men to change their vote to not guilty one by one. At the end he convinced all the 11 men to vote for not guilty and the guy on trail was free. From this I learned that if I have enough proof and am smart enough I can convince anyone to change their mind about something.
Finally the last thing I learned in english for this semester was how to debate. In the debate we did in class, I learned the process of a debate. We took about two weeks doing search for our argument both affirmative and negative. We also did an actual debate in class like we argued and we did everything that would happen in a real debate. This was something I’m glad we learned because I actually wanted to be a lawyer but not any more because I noticed that it’s a lot of work. At the end I have had the experience of a debate and probably in the future they’ll be
In the beginning of this class I learned about discrimination, which is when people treat others different because of their skin color. In the book “The Secret Life of Bees,” the main character, who is white, has a babysitter who is black which one day goes out to the town to sign a paper that would help black on something. On the way there a white guy comes and starts making fun of her because she was black, so then she spit at the guy’s shoe …show more content…
In the movie, “12 Angry Men” there were 12 men who were deciding whether this guy was guilty or not and 11 of them chose guilty and only one chose not guilty. Then the guy who chose not guilty started giving examples on why the guy wasn’t guilty, although he may be wrong he still made points that were very justable and convince the other 11 men to change their vote to not guilty one by one. At the end he convinced all the 11 men to vote for not guilty and the guy on trail was free. From this I learned that if I have enough proof and am smart enough I can convince anyone to change their mind about something.
Finally the last thing I learned in english for this semester was how to debate. In the debate we did in class, I learned the process of a debate. We took about two weeks doing search for our argument both affirmative and negative. We also did an actual debate in class like we argued and we did everything that would happen in a real debate. This was something I’m glad we learned because I actually wanted to be a lawyer but not any more because I noticed that it’s a lot of work. At the end I have had the experience of a debate and probably in the future they’ll be