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    Calvin L. Armstrong a free spirited guy from Philadelphia. I embody music, I am music. I believe so many things can be expressed through music, that's my next love besides my kids. I am focused to get this communications degree. I don't want to be rich, I just want to live comfortable. I don't live paycheck to paycheck. I love basketball and all other sports. I'm a fun person to be around. I love making people feel comfortable and free around me. Get to know me.

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Dear, Marlen

In this brief paper, I will be giving you my personal outlook of the class. You can expect to know what I accomplished in your class, what I learned, and my thoughts of the structure of the class. I’m also going to give you my suggestions for the class using constructive criticism.  By the end of this paper my thoughts will be accurately presented in a professional manner.

I hate to read! That’s just as real as day and night. I hated since I was young. In elementary school, they had this meeting where all the parents showed up. In this formal meeting the Principal did a presentation of how kids lack reading skills in their older years. In the outcome of this presentation, they proposed a no television program. This program was to develop our reading skills. That wasn’t a problem I wanted to be a better reader, but for a month no television! That’s what discouraged me to want to read. I mean I envied books, I felt making a movie was easier. From then on I hated to read, but not anymore. Your class is a course that you can’t get around reading. I had to suck it up and get it done. Now if a story is boring, I make it relevant to my life. For example, I made the rabbits of Watership Down gangsters from the hood. This made the story more interesting for me. When I can relate to something I’m more accessible to that. I want to thank you for that, because I read because I want to now. Who would have ever thought?

In this it’s hard to not come out everyday learning something. A lot of times it’s stuff I knew, but the exercise of thought made my brain stronger. I mean it’s stuff I just never thought of, it’s in a sense of another world. I learned the world is really exquisite, the thought and how deep people really think. I think that it’s deep and my friends think it’s weird, so I stop. But sense I learned it’s okay to think out the box, so everything makes so much sense. It makes so much sense so that it’s hard to question the inconsistencies. Thinking out the box is really the base of brilliance, now that I think about it.

Your class keeps people on their toes. I know it keeps me on mine. But just think; are people wanting to learn or want not to fail? A big portion of the class have to take your class to graduate, so their stuck with you. I love the class, but your strict gore over the class, makes it mandatory to do the work. Do you want people to enjoy learning or do real good because they don’t want to fail? It’s doesn’t matter because people are learning and you are the reason people become better students, and their work ethic changes. My advice to you is to never change just get stricter, but wait until this semester is over.

In conclusion I enjoy your class; I think all classes should be this intense. Unfortunately, they aren’t, in no shape or form. You have a teaching style of teaching first money accepted later. This means you don’t do it for the money, and in a sincere way it’s felt through your teaching. That’s why you have good repoar with you students. Keep up the good work.

One Response

  1. Thanks, Calvin – I’m glad this class is working for you and appreciate your strong participation! Keep up the great work.
    Marlen

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