Creative Writing FINAL!!!

This class has been one of my favorites throughout my entire four year high school career. I enjoyed the class because it didn’t follow the text book standard where we were forced to sit in our seats all hour and listen to a lecture or do book work. I liked how all of our assignments were so open ended and we had the option of basically writing about whatever we wanted. I feel as though this class also helped me grow as a person and help me further discover who I am. I learned how to express myself through writing and say whatever I wanted and it was a good way of venting whatever was on my mind for the day.
I would highly recommend this class to anyone who is considering it or to anyone who just simply needs to fill a class in their schedule because it is a good class for anyone. I also think it’s a great class whether you like to write or not because as I said before it doesn’t follow the standard writing class format where you must apply proper grammar and English skills. It was a very open ended class and I loved all the blogging because it allowed me to write about anything, and when I say anything I mean anything because I wrote about everything from sports to school to work to even strings.
Aside from the blogging we also did numerous other assignments which were also very open ended such as poetry, short stories, and even writing a script for a movie and then filming it. I learned about numerous poetry formats such as the sonnet and pantoum. I enjoyed writing short stories also because it could have been about anything as long as in the end the main character ended up learning some type of moral lessons. Then there was the movie! The film project which we did at the end of the year was the best because we got to first, choose who we wanted to work with then second, write our own no holds bared script, then finally, film it. It involved much work outside of school but it was all fun times and we ended up making the funniest movie Walled Lake Central has ever seen. We did a wide array of projects and assignments but it was all fun because the basis of the class centered around being open ended and writing about whatever you wanted.
Even though the class was fun and I was kind of forced to take it as a graduation requirement I sill loved it and I now call it one of my favorites. Even though I enjoyed the class and all the writing formats it wouldn’t have been the same without the teacher though. Ms. Eastman was a first year teacher and she did an amazing job in her “rookie” year. There were times when we were out of control and out of line (which I do apologize for) but she managed to keep control and run one of my favorite classes ever.
If I had the opportunity to take the class all over again I definitely would. It was a very friendly environment and a great class for self discovery and self expression and the teacher was great!!!
I’ll miss you Ms. Eastman!!!
Good luck!!!