John's Reading Reviews

  To wrap up our time in Mr. Davidson's Contemporary Literature class, we were each tasked to write a reflection on our time in the class. With four questions that will be answered in this post.   I. Why did you sign up, and did it meet your expectations?    I signed up for Contemporary Literature mainly because I haven’t really read any books written that recently for school, and I wanted to have a change of pace for an English class. And I have to say this class not only met my expectations, but I honestly had a much better time than I thought I would in this clas s. All the books were interesting in their own way, and they all had a different concept or style that I hadn’t seen before. To the point where the books we read in class alone would make me take this class again if I could.   II. What was your favorite novel and why?   Although all the novels we read in this class were good and they all provided a fresh perspective on a bunch of differ...

       As a yearly wrap-up project for this year’s Contemporary Literature class, Mr. Davidson tasked the whole class to each make a Ted Talk on a topic they believe in or know a lot about. I decided to do “Traditions Are Important” for my topic, mainly because I had recently used my family's tamale making tradition for my Michigan college Essay on communities. However, the process was a lot harder than I initially thought, and I hope that this reflection will help illustrate that journey.   What I Knew   Going into this project, the only tradition that really came to my head when I thought about it was my family’s tamale making tradition . So, there wasn’t much to go off in terms of personal experience, but as I had already started this project, I figured that there was some interesting stuff I could find if I did the research. So, I decided to illustrate my point with my family’s tradition, and then supplement it with a lot of things that pe...