Senior English Class

All throughout my English classes in high school, I goofed off more than I did anything. I didn't like to write and I certainly didn't like to read. We didn't learn much of anything good in those classes anyways, so I just decided to spend my time goofing off, which most of the time led me in to getting in trouble almost every other day. Even though I spent most of my time getting in trouble and goofing off, I still made sure I wasn't missing anything important, which most of the time I wasn't.  It wasn't until my senior year that I started to learn something in an English class. In the previous years, I didn't like the teachers I had but one, and she moved to a different state. But my senior year I had Mrs.Mcvay, who was my old cheer coach from a few years back. I also cheered with her oldest daughter and coached her youngest on the Termite cheer squad. So I knew a lot about Mrs. Mcvay going into her class. I learned more in one year of her class than I have in any other English class I've had before. Mrs. Mcvay showed us all types of movies such as Becoming Jane, Star Wars, Beowulf, Frankenstein and so a whole lot more. We took notes on the movies, and at the end of each of them, we did a paper or some kind of project. She taught us how to identify the themes, symbols, and meanings behind things in the movies that I would have never payed attention to. Not only was she a good teacher, but she was also somebody that you could tell anything to. Sometimes we would even spend a class period having conversations about anything and everything that most of the time, taught me some kind of lesson. Without her, my writing wouldn't be where it is today. I've also learned so many more things in English and life lessons that I never would have learned without her.