FINAL Thoughts on Creative Writing Class

This year in creative writing I not only have I learned a lot about writing poetry, papers, movie scripts, and several other types of writing, I also had a lot of fun. The whole class atmosphere was what made the class not just a class. In all of my other classes, it consists of listening to a teacher lecture about a subject that we are supposed to be learning about and then doing homework on it, however in creative writing with Miss Eastman, she didn’t just teach us how to do our work, she actually showed us, by giving us examples of pieces of writing that she actually wrote. Miss E is the kind of teacher that loves doing her job and loves teaching/showing kids in high school how to apply it to real life. I was taught how to write several different types of poetry such as sonnet poems, open letters, pantoum poems, and also how to use blogs on the internet.

Even though I wasn’t always up to date on my blogging for the class credit, I still thought it was one of the coolest parts of the class because I have never done anything like that ever before in class, it taught me something new about computers, and also kept me up on technology. Even after the class is over, I still plan on continuing writing my blog entries and keeping in contact with Miss Eastman as well as other kids in my class.

Miss Eastman made me feel extremely comfortable in class right from the beginning of the year when she had everyone stand up on the desk and introduce themselves in front of the entire class. I must admit when we first began doing that I was a little weirded out by what was going on, but now that I look back on it I see that it was a great way to get to know everyone in the class as well as make everyone feel comfortable with each other. Miss Eastman knew at least one thing about everyone in every single one of her classes which I thought was extremely cool and sincere of her. No other teacher does that in any of my other classes that I have had at Walled Lake Central. To other teachers who teach at this school, it is just their job, but to Miss Eastman it isn’t just a job to her, it is her life and you can definitely tell from having her class for only one semester that she really loves what she’s doing and wants to keep doing it for a long time.

One of the most interesting projects that we did in creative writing class was the last project we did when we were assigned to make our own movie/television show inside and outside of school. I really enjoyed doing this project because it brought me and my group in class closer when filming the TV show outside of school. I loved how Miss Eastman showed me how to use Windows Movie Maker, which I had never even heard of before until she showed us. It is an amazing program which makes it extremely easy to make your own movies and edit different parts, as well as edit in your own music! Even though me and my group slacked quite a bit on our film we made, we took the extra couple days and got a lower grade and made it a pretty good movie. We really did work hard on the project; it just took us a while to get motivated to do it.

Throughout this whole semester I learned so much in creative writing class. I am so happy I decided to take the class and was able to have Miss Eastman as my teacher. Miss Eastman had a bond with every student in our class, and in the end wasn’t just a teacher, she was a friend. Creative Writing taught me more than any other stupid English class has with doing book reports or writing boring papers, and has turned out to be one of my all-time favorite classes. I want to thank Miss Eastman for making my last semester of my senior year the best semester of high school; I hope to stay in contact.