Because of its difficulty, senior English in high school with Mr. Sacksteder was a class that many people recommended not to take because of its difficulty. In fact, many kids opted to duel-enroll and take the English class at the local community college because it was easier. My parents, however, convinced me to take the senior English class and I am very glad I did.
This class changed the way I wrote and what I thought about writing. From the first day in class, I knew I was going to be challenged to open my mind and truly express myself. Mr. Sacksteder taught us to reevaluate what we had learned as high school students, and pushed us to write beyond what we were capable of. As a student and a person, I learned to expand my limitations and write with great detail and fluency. The most important part of the class was the tremendous detail Mr. Sacksteder paid to including quotations in papers. Before I took
this class, I had always written papers that were somewhat entertaining, but really had no point to them. From the first day in class he pounded the fact that we needed concise example into our heads. To make us do that; Mr. Sacksteder would give us assignments that had to have a certain number of quotes in them. I struggled at first but eventually caught on and my papers continued to get better grades. This English class taught me to write a paper that was entertaining, but also gave the reader some information about the topic of the paper.
At points during the year, the majority of the class, including me, got very frustrated with the difficulty of the papers and how harshly Mr. Sacksteder graded them. Yet, we all knew that if we stayed with it, this class would help us in the end. Most of the class was moving on to college and we knew that the writing was only going to get more difficult. My senior English class helped my cl
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