English 101 Reflective Essay

I have grown as an academic student in college and career readiness, as displayed through my English 101 class. This was my third college class on the campus of Los Angeles Mission College, so I thought I was prepared and ready. Yet in my English 101 class I had to come up with my own prompts for my essays and merely came into class to listen to lectures on the basics of English. This was the first class that the teacher did not give me the rules on what to do for the assignment, I had to come up with it myself. Professor Diaz-Cooper did not hand out How-To papers or grading rubrics - she expected us to know and acquire all this information on our own. When I turned in my first paper, I received a “D” for not having proper MLA format. She told

This semester has really showed me that being a global citizen doesn’t mean you have to do something global. In fact, you do something small in your community, this something small is what has the capabilities of going global. My “something small” is working with my kids as a peer tutor for English 9 and Biomed instead of having the privilege of going home early. I proceed to give students the opportunities I have always had, a tutor invested in helping my students succeed. On the surface it seems small, but tutoring has allowed me to show my kids that someone does want the best for them as an individual (even though they don’t recognize it in their teachers and parents), and when they recognize this it motivates them to turn their grades around. Seeing my student have an interest in history and how farmers treated animals, this little conversation we sparked, promoted him to look into the subject more and stay away from these products as a form of protest. Getting him to see that he does have an interest in school and that what he does matters for his future was my contribution to the world. For a kid who had all odds against him graduating realized his first semester of high school that he can change things for the good and be the first in his family to go to college. One day the success I helped breed one-on-one will take my students to become an important person, a person of value they did not see