Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
The amount of warnings that I had received during the summer going into my Junior Year was daunting. My friends and siblings asking me why I would take such a difficult class in the year when my grades mattered the most. To say that I was intimidated was an extreme understatement (hah get it), and to say that I had never thought about emailing my guidance counselor and requesting to change my class decision to an easier class would be a lie.
Many of my friends, who are a year above me, apart of the graduating class of 2019 always expressed not only how happy they were that they took the class, but also how amazed they were at the personal growth that they had endured. As I listened to their thoughts of AP Language and Composition I thought to myself if I was up for the task, and if I was smart enough to go through such a demanding curriculum.
Then came the discussions I had about Ms. McMahon. Ms. McMahon was, to me, one of those teachers where you could walk into their classroom's with no prior knowledge of who they were or how they taught, but still be absolutely terrified of the instant you lock eyes on her. She was the teacher in the building everyone knew, and everyone has heard of. My take on the class that I wasn't sure if I was ready to take was, it was the type of course that you walk into, you do your work and you leave.
I had no idea that Ms. McMahon's class was the class that was going to break me out of a bubble that I had no clue I was in. I learned to voice my opinion on topics besides where my friends and I should eat at after school, or what color dress looks best on who, and other meaningless topics as such. I grew as a person in this class, I learned not only about writing essays, and analyzing rhetorical strategies, but also about the world. Most importantly I learned that our small town is just a fragment of what the World has to offer to us. I learned about the misfortunes of people, the mistakes of people, the flaws in our everyday lives, and I learned how to look past the everyday high school drama, and to revert the progress that I had made into becoming a stereotypical, everyday teenager. In Ms. McMahon's class I learned to be myself.
Ms. McMahon's class also introduced me to amazing people that I would have not before even thought to talk to. I learned about their stories, how they live their lives different than mine. The biggest take-away that I have received from being apart of Ms.McMahon's "AP Lang Gang" is the friendships that I had made in the class, and the new outlook that I now have on the world.
Many of my friends, who are a year above me, apart of the graduating class of 2019 always expressed not only how happy they were that they took the class, but also how amazed they were at the personal growth that they had endured. As I listened to their thoughts of AP Language and Composition I thought to myself if I was up for the task, and if I was smart enough to go through such a demanding curriculum.
Then came the discussions I had about Ms. McMahon. Ms. McMahon was, to me, one of those teachers where you could walk into their classroom's with no prior knowledge of who they were or how they taught, but still be absolutely terrified of the instant you lock eyes on her. She was the teacher in the building everyone knew, and everyone has heard of. My take on the class that I wasn't sure if I was ready to take was, it was the type of course that you walk into, you do your work and you leave.
I had no idea that Ms. McMahon's class was the class that was going to break me out of a bubble that I had no clue I was in. I learned to voice my opinion on topics besides where my friends and I should eat at after school, or what color dress looks best on who, and other meaningless topics as such. I grew as a person in this class, I learned not only about writing essays, and analyzing rhetorical strategies, but also about the world. Most importantly I learned that our small town is just a fragment of what the World has to offer to us. I learned about the misfortunes of people, the mistakes of people, the flaws in our everyday lives, and I learned how to look past the everyday high school drama, and to revert the progress that I had made into becoming a stereotypical, everyday teenager. In Ms. McMahon's class I learned to be myself.
Ms. McMahon's class also introduced me to amazing people that I would have not before even thought to talk to. I learned about their stories, how they live their lives different than mine. The biggest take-away that I have received from being apart of Ms.McMahon's "AP Lang Gang" is the friendships that I had made in the class, and the new outlook that I now have on the world.
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