End of The Year Letter

         Throughout the past year that we have been in ELA class, the memories couldn’t have been more entertaining and fun. Through Poetry and Shakespeare, Ms. Galang had found a way to make lessons both educational and enjoyable.

        One of my favorite memories from ELA would most definitely be the one of the Shakespeare unit. It was really fun to take part in and it actually helped me a lot. Ms. Galang taught us plenty about how to look deeper into what Shakespeare was writing in Romeo and Juliet. I was able to decrypt the thoughts behind Shakespeare's writing with Ms. Galangs lessons on note taking. I think that learning how to take critical thinking notes in the margin of your book would be really helpful in the upcoming four years of high school for a number of different reasons. One of them would be that if in high school there would ever be another Shakespeare unit that we would partake in, then we would already have been prepared to read Shakespeare. We would understand it better and would have already known how to read what Shakespeare had written.

       The activities that Ms. Galang had made us partake in were also really fun and interesting. One of them would be the continuous book clubs that we were put into. The reason that I liked this so much is because in these book clubs we had a chance to read books that we chose and also books from different categories sun as banned books being one of them. In these book clubs we also learned how to take notes in the books and how to translate them into synthesis pages which I believe were really useful. We could use the process of synthesis pages in high school because it taught us how to translate written notes into changes and feelings of the character. Book clubs run by Ms. Galang were also really fun because it also gave us a chance to learn more about ourselves and learn how to work together. 

      Overall, the past year with Ms. Galang have been entertaining and a total joy being in. The class had learned so many things that could be used for our own future in high school. There were many things that we learned that were really education and all of this was taught by one teacher. 

Summer Reading List

Books I want to Read

-1984 by George Orwell

-A Midsummers Night Dream by Shakespeare

-Paper Towns by John Green

Summer Reading List for Colonia High School

-The Illustrated Man byRay Bradbury

-The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey