Narrative essay

The first day of school I was ready to go to my English classroom which is my second period and I thought it was going to be like all the other English classes I had in the past. But little did I know how wrong I was. I was walking near the 600 buildings trying to find which classroom I was going to be going and hoping I didn't get in the wrong classroom and embarrassed myself in front of a classroom full of strangers. I was glad I had a few people that I knew. When I saw the teachers name, I knew he had a PhD and I was amazed. Most teachers that I know of brag about how long it took then to get a masters. When the professor started to talk, I was surprised by what he had said. Dr. Preston from the beginning gave us a lot of trust even though we haven't earned that. Without even knowing who we were and what kind of person we were he still gave us his trust. He talked to us as if he already knew us and let us make the first choice of what we wanted to do in the classroom. He gave us the opportunity to choose to do the things old school way which are textbook and writing a lot of things in a notebook or do the work the new way which is using technology. He told us to decide as a class and to everyone agree. Then he left the classroom to give us privacy and decide of what we wanted. But I feel like our answer was predictable to him. No student is going to want to carry a heavy textbook and having to have an extra notebook to write on, and instead of having all that we can just use something we use all the time and are kind of addicting to use, Our phones. To begin with I didn't fully agree to the idea of using our phones because I know myself and I know that I will get distracted and go on something else instead of doing my work. But Then my friend convinced me because I too didn't want to carry a heavy textbook. After he came back into the classroom, we his students told him that we would rather use our phones to do work on. After we got things settle and like the first few weeks of school passed, and he told us to get a book and write about the first hundred pages. I went I got a book I wasn’t even interested in and then didn’t even read it, procrastinated did a little of reading and then wrote about the book to get things over. But then he introduced us this gigantic book that resembles the bible. He talked about the author and how his book is a great masterpiece and introduced us to this new world of literature. The book is amazing les Miserable is an amazing book. I made so much connections with the book, I'll give an example when we got to where we meet the Thenardiers and Little Cosette, my connection was that the Thenardiers were my aunts and I was little Cosette, and how I was like a little servant to my aunt, because they always made me clean at a young age. But i wasn’t treated that terribly like the Thenardiers treated Cosette. After I got more interested in the book I read ahead because I wanted to know more and what else was going to be happening. The biggest book I have read barely reached to 900 pages. In March of 2018 is when I read the ending of the book and I was not disappointed I will only say that it goes perfectly fitted with the whole story. I have no Idea of how Victor Hugo did this to make this great book. I admire him for this. He is indeed one of the many great authors there is. Les Misérables also reconnect with something I am very passionate about. Seeing how Victor Hugo created this book made me think of how I could reconnect with my passion of drawing and painting. Hugo’s way of telling the story made me want to tell a story but in a different kind of way. Hugo’s way is using fictional character to tell a powerful story and my way of telling a story is through my drawings and paintings. I want to continue doing this and tell my stories in my own way. And exactly on May of 2019 we started our Masterpiece Academy were we choice to present of what we are most interested and passionate about. I wanted to make my presentation better and tell more about the perspectives of art, but I got to nervous and couldn’t think any more of what I was going to say. My classmates did a very good job on showing us on what they are passionate about. My personal favorite where Diana, Denisse, Celeste, Brayan and Jacob. I choose this because they each show very interesting things for example Diana took me deeper into seeing of how people see different things and have different perspective on what they think is right and wrong. Denisse’s presentation for me was the best one because some people invest a lot on projects without even knowing what they are doing. And then there are people that are always discouraging someone from doing what they want to do. it's very hard to own a business because it doesn't always succeed. But I hope Denisse is successful. Celeste presentation opened my mind because its true of how corrupt our society is today. Doctor prescribe too much medication patients end up dying and some use that for their own benefit of earning money. Brayan’s presentation about how scientist know what color dogs see it amazing because we don’t know what dogs see because we don't have the same vision as they do. Lastly but not least was Jacob's presentation about Traumatic Brain injuries. His presentation showed me how dangerous some sport can be for example Muhammad Ali a professional boxer had brain injuries due to boxing he was a great man I admire him and his dedication on boxing. This classmate have showed me a lot of things about their topic but at the same time I feel like we have just scratched the surface of what there is truly to know about their masterpieces.