I learn best when I can choose a project or something to use a specific thing that we learned in class, instead of the teacher saying, “Write a story about blah blah blah…” If I can choose what I am writing about, I learn better, because I don’t have to worry about what I am writing about, or doing research because my teacher told me to write about something that I’ve never heard of. Then I learn more about what I am writing about, not about writing. And we’re supposed to be learning about writing in an English class, aren’t we?

I would expect my teacher to do a lot of things that I can have some kind of choice for. I think it makes a lot more sense for an English teacher to assign something that is not so detailed that the entire class’s papers are almost the same. They should assign something that would allow the student to express themself, not show that they can write about the teacher’s dog.

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