Help!-Noah Welch

I thought your class was effective this year. In my opinion, the tests and writings were very effective but I do not think putting the tests and writings on Friday helped develop our skills further. I enjoyed the Socratic seminars, but I think that our class needed a little more prodding from you to reach our full potential. I also felt this way about several of our class discussions, in many of these circumstances several people needed more encouragement to contribute to the discussion.

 My largest complaint about the class is this semester’s final. I do not have many skills in film. I cannot edit film or act well. I would greatly prefer if we had options on what project we could undertake for our final. I think this would be fair, because some people do not have the skills to perform this project to your expectations.  Instead of a single project option, you could require us to write a paper, or take a test or make a power point or make a film.    I do not understand how this film applies to what we have learned and worked on in class this whole year.  This final seems like a more appropriate final for a film class. I understand that you want to broaden our horizons, but please consider that not everyone shares your love and talent for film. If you wanted to introduce us to film, maybe it could have been a smaller project worth much less than 20% of our grade.

I appreciate your willingness to accept constructive feedback.  I hope you will take my feedback under consideration.  On the whole I had a good year and enjoyed your class greatly. I thought you did a wonderful job preparing us for the AP test and were an effective and fun teacher.