21st Century English YES ENGLISH

So, 21st English. Well I've pretty much enjoyed English this far. I like reading books, and i enjoy writing papers. The papers that are easiest to write are any papers that have to do with my opinion. I've always found expressing my opinion through writing is easy. I just write how I feel about something. I find that I have a little difficulty in interpreting the meanings of stories or other writings. English is different then most other subjects. Any other subject has set rules and boundaries. Every other subject is about set things that have occurred or always will occur unless acted on by other things. English is unique. I kinda don't like the fact that we have decided to integrate social networking into it. It's just different then what we have grown up to. I think that its pretty silly I think that we should go back to just writing papers I seem to be a little better at that then keeping up with this blog. I think that we need to be GIVEN THE CHOICE on whether or not we want to create a blog or write papers. I think that I am reading this book on my own time and that i hate reading a loud in class, I'm not the fastest reader in the world and I'm not so good with everybody concentrated on me cause me to stutter and sounds stupid, I'd much rather read on my own because it's faster and I can concentrate better when I read it. When others read I find myself dozing off from the reading and not paying attention. Well that's what I think about 21st century English.

Spark Notes and You

I read these spark notes and I have to admit, they kinda do give some answers to anything that the teacher could give you to quiz on and the analysis after the summary does give some good ideas on what the author meant to write about. If you need to review really quick on a few chapters before a test or quiz then spark notes can work wonders. I have to admit that I have used that tactic many times but I have to add that it pales in comparison to reading the entire book. Spark notes serve as a review or a summary of the book and can leave out many smaller things that add to the book's character. The book has more description and goes into much greater detail when it comes to telling the story. I'd never read spark notes for a book that I want to read for pleasure. You miss many actual plot details when reading the spark notes. To compare something to spark notes, it is much like watching a movie or seeing a stack of pictures with a small paragraph to describe whats happening in each scene. To sum everything up, spark notes has its benefits in some situations but is not a substitute to reading the full book.