Caleb reflects on how his English class with Sue Briggs has changed his view of English and writing. Unlike traditional classes with assigned topics, Sue's class allows students freedom to write about whatever they want. Caleb enjoyed the writing assignments and found the feedback to be supportive criticism to help students improve. Looking back, Caleb sees growth in his writing from the start of the semester. He enjoyed assignments profiling his father, reviewing a movie, and a group multimodal project, though a research paper was more difficult. Overall, the freedom in Sue's class made it Caleb's favorite English class.

1. Caleb Frischknecht
English 2010
TR 10:00
Reflection for Final Portfolio
I haven’t ever been one to excel in English classes, or even been one to enjoy
them either. However the way that Sue Briggs conducts her class has changed the way I
feel about English and writing. It’s not your traditional class where the teacher assigns
you the same boring topics to write about, but rather an opportunity of freedom to write
about whatever you want. What I love is that when our papers get graded its more
supportive criticism on how we can improve as a writer, and you don’t feel like you’ve
let everyone and their dog down for doing something wrong. In this class I enjoyed our
writing assignments and being creative.
Looking back on some of the papers that I’ve written over the semester, it’s
interesting to see the change in how I write as opposed to past semesters and how I’ve
improved. For my first piece I profiled my dad and his life as a school teacher, and I
loved thinking more in detail about what he does. I’ve grown up with him and taken
everything for granted with what he does, but because of this assignment I was able to
put the puzzle together piece by piece and realize what a difference he makes in the lives
of so many people in and out of the classroom. I was able to see really how much work it
took to be a teacher, and a good one at that. It was a fun experience to be able to write
about my own dad in a college level English class.
My review on the movie The Vow was a little less personal but I still really
enjoyed it. I had never really written a review on anything so it was invigorating to write
one about something I indulge in during my free time. The best part about this

2. assignment was that I made a date out of it with my wife. It didn’t even feel like
homework, but more of a fun thing to do.
I had a little more trouble with the Position/Proposal, probably because it was
about a more serious topic. Doing the research for my topic Broken Homes was
interesting yet difficult at the same time. This assignment was the only one that I disliked
this whole semester. The preparation and guidance from Sue was very helpful and made
the process easier, but putting the information onto paper and doing it correctly was
harder for me. I feel like in the future if I ever have to write another paper like it I will be
a lot better off because I would choose an easier topic and have a better know how of
how to go about writing it.
The multimodal project was a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting into a good group and
doing an assignment together. It was amazing how well we worked together and all the
unique ideas each of us had. I prefer group projects most of the time as long as everyone
works together equally for the same purpose. Again I loved the freedom of choosing our
topic and how we would present it to the class. Like I said before, the freedom in this
class made it my favorite English class I’ve ever had. I wish everyone could experience a
class like this one, I know it would make a difference in success rates in students.