My English learning when I was a 10th grader student

        In the first year of senior high school, when I became a 10^th-grader-student, I met several teachers that impressed me a lot. I could still remember how their classes looked like and the contents they taught. Among those teachers, I remember my English teacher, who was also my homeroom teacher the most. As a freshman of senior high school, I was not shocked by the high pressure of the courses because I had learned contents of high school English classes when I still stayed in the first cram school, the same one I mentioned in the second blog. Getting scores that satisfied myself was not too difficult for me. But with the help of my English teacher, I thought I learned English with more solid grounding.

        The teacher held lots of teaching activities during the class in that year. The first activity I remembered was playing games with kahoot!. I was fascinated by the way we competed with each other and reviewed the contents with that interesting website. We named our group names interestingly and managed to get the highest points to show our group names on the leaderboard. Seeing other classmates and the teacher feel funny when they saw creative group names was one thing I really enjoyed when playing games with kahoot!.

        Another in-class activity was article jigsaw. The teacher gave a few envelopes to every group, and she asked us to arrange the sentences to make them become a complete passage. All of the classmates were focused on this activity, and everyone showed their opinions when figuring out the right places of the sentences. After we finally figured out all the passages, the teacher announced that those passages were contents of the lesson, which meant that those passages were segments of the article of that lesson. Our brains seemed to be burning when we arrange the passages to figure out the right order to get the complete article of the lesson. It took us almost a class, which was 50 minutes, to finish this activity. Though it was difficult for us to do this activity, I liked it because it helped me think comprehensively when reading this article, not just focusing on a few particular sentences. Though my group did not answer the order of the passages right, I liked this activity a lot and wanted to adjust it into my future teaching.

        In the first year of senior high, I read five different English literature works, and all of them were short version of the original works. Two of them were directed by school, so all the freshmen needed to read the two books and took a quiz after reading them. These two books were more like children’s books because there were colorful illustrations inside the books. The other three books were chosen by our teacher, and they were also the homework of the whole semester. The homework was done by groups, and three or four students were composed of a team. Each week, we had to write the summary of the chapter, new vocabulary of the chapter, a question about the chapter, and the answer of the question. By doing the tasks, I worked hard reading the literature works. I could still remember what we read even though I could not check the books right now. Though I am not good at literature, I still enjoy reading western literatures I am interested in.

        As our homeroom teacher, she also held and arranged lots of meaningful activities during the year. For me, she is not only the English teacher that I admire, her style and ways to guide and teach a class are also what I really appreciate. Though I was only taught by her for one year, I could say that she is one of the teachers I like in my senior high school.