This year in English I personally really enjoyed a large chunk
of the material we covered, some of my most favourite being 12 Angry Men, The
Road, and my top A Mid Summer’s Night Dream. I really enjoyed the way we did A
Mid Summer’s Night Dream because not only did we act out a majority of the play
but we also watched the film to enhance our understanding. On top of all that,
when Ms. Harstone would sum up what had just occurred in the scene, all of
these factors gave me a great understanding of what happened in this Shakespearean
play. I don’t think I have ever understood something I’ve done in school so
clearly. There were a few things I didn’t particularly enjoy about this year, V
for Vendetta, the Poetry Anthology, and the presenting we did this year. The part
I didn’t enjoy the most was the Poetry Anthology because personally I don’t enjoy
writing poetry and it isn’t one of my better skills, rhyming and making words
sound elegant together isn’t the simplest thing for me to do. Something I would
change from this year is doing V for Vendetta as our movie study, the film
although the idea for the film and story was well thought out, I found it difficult
to understand and follow because it has such a complex idea. Something that I thought
worked well this year was the way we read 12 Angry Men, it really forced you to
focus and get involved in the book and to add on to that the story was
interesting and I enjoyed hearing all the men’s opinions towards the case.
