What If? I were an English Teacher

Well, first off, I wouldn't have punctuated the title as I just did. Buuuuuut the prompt said to do it like that, so I did.

If I were an English teacher, I wouldn't keep doing the same thing every day in class as we've been doing for the past few weeks. Honestly, it's boring as hell. I'm tired of doing Do You Mind??!!, then a TED speech or two, then Consilience. It's been this way for far too freakin' long.

If I were an English teacher, I would keep doing the Do You Mind??!! questions; I like these. They make people think about things they might normally not or at least get them to reflect on these things and put them into words. I think that's cool.

If I were an English teacher, I would have had my students read Consilience on their own, then have them discuss what they read. After that, I would go over it in class and try to give them ways to better annotate and recognize patterns and whatnot. I would probably do this over the course of two to three days max. However long we've been doing this has been too long and make for one boring ass class.

If I were an English teacher, I wouldn't make them (the students) give a speech about some TED presenter that they'd already written a speech about in the previous quarter. I understand the public speaking thing that Senor Allen is trying to achieve, but I wouldn't have them give a speech on THAT. I would have my students give a speech on their high school career, where they began, where they are now, and where they want to be as a person and as a functioning member of society.

If I were an English teacher, I would want to have my students be as open and as honest about their lives as they could. I'm tired of this bull shit where people don't talk about personal things, because it's not "cool" to be open with your emotions and ideas in public. It's dumb. I see the main reason for people not being open is that they're afraid of being judged by others. That's dumb.

I don't know why I decide to do these blogs when I'm tired. They all suck when I do this. Oh well; it's almost over.

                                                                                                                                    - Seacrest Out