First day of class...

Hey, I'm Phil. This is definitely my first time writing a blog since I've never really taken the time to write down my thoughts.

Well, since this is an English class(and it's the assignment), I guess I'll talk about some of my past English class experiences. I went to Maumee high school, in Maumee, a small city on the edge of Toledo. In my four years there, I had a number of different experiences in English classes. This is due to the fact that somehow, I only had one teacher more than once. So I ended up having a class with every English teacher in the school's department and I got to hear a lot of different teaching styles.

I did decently in my first few classes normally getting by with a B until my sophomore year when I had one of my favorite teachers and ended up with an A. Due to my apparent outstanding performance I was recommended to be moved up to the AP English class for the next trimester.

For those who don't know or may of had different rules for it, in AP classes you had to get a grade of at least a B to stay in the advanced classes. You were allowed one C but that was your only strike.

My first trimester of it was the second part of sophomore English. I had one of the better teachers in the department but I was in no way prepared to do as much work as what was given to me and ended the tri with a C+.

Then, my junior year started. In the first tri I had probably the least favorite teacher I've ever had. I have a history of mumbling sometimes when I talk and almost anytime he would call on me he would tell me to speak loudly and with clarity. Not the best thing to keep me motivated in my opinion. He pretty much knew that I wasn't prepared to take an AP class like this and would call on me a lot, unless of course my hand was actually raised.

I ended up with a C in that class as well and was promptly taken out of AP. The rest of my high school english career went by mildly uneventfully but not with great grades. Now I am here in this class trying to do a little better than what I did in high school.

Well, that's about all I'm gonna say this time, I'm sure I'll be back wednesday for another assignment. Same bat time, same bat place.