Greta is Great spelled wrong.

How i learn and what i expect.

    My learning in language arts has to be totally hands on.  Like doing things and talking about them.  I can’t just sit and write and flesh out my own ideas by myself.  I have to have someone else’s to help spark my own stream of thinking.  It is a long list of things that will help me to learn some being: discussion, technology, just talking about stuff, and having activities based around what I am trying to write about.  The things I can’t learn from are: Sitting alone and writing, partner writing, writing summary’s, writing about other writing.  I just won’t be able to think for myself if I have to do that all the time.  My mind will just adapt to other people’s way of thinking and I will conform to the rest of the crowd and no one will read what I write.  Or if I just have to write by myself it will be so boring you would be paying attention to the pencil shavings floating around on it rather then the actual writing.

What I expect for next year is pretty much all of the above but not on such a specific level.  I know there will be some of what I can’t learn from because that is how other people learn but I can handle a little of that.  I just don’t want the entire class every day in 9th grade to consist of me walking in, sitting down, and trying to concentrate on writing by myself.  That just wouldn’t work for me.  I would end up having a less open mind then from when I started and I do not want to go backwards in my education.