Honors English: Almost There

Dear Matt,

As you more than know, this is the start of the last full week of school, in just under two weeks you will cease to be a ninth grader and become a tenth grader at Davis High School. Throughout the Honors English course you always seemed to try your hardest in all that you did, and from the sounds of things, you never really enjoyed English as a subject, that is until now. Over the course of the year, in my regular English class, and over the internet in this online course, I have seen a greater appreciation for what you have, and what you know. You worked hard to complete this course, but there are a few things on which you could have improved on throughout the year.

Mainly with your blogs more than you discussion board posts, I have noticed that sometimes you seem to rushed to sit down and write a really good blog, instead sometimes they seemed a little too rushed to e enjoyable. This really only seemed to become a problem during the fourth term, when your blogs started to come in a day or two late, and were thrown together almost too rapidly. Other than this, your experience in the Honors English program has seemed to be a very good one, and I see no problem in awarding you full credit. Congratulations.

Sincerely,

(This is where Mr. Thompson would have signed…)

So this being the next to last blog that will be posted as an official “for credit” writing. I guess there are a few things that should be said, but really I don’t know any of them to say. I mean, for all of us this has been a profitable year, and for those of us who stuck it out and are here at the end of the year still active in all of our posts and what-not will stand out from those who did not even make it through the first term of this class. Not only has this class made us all better at what we do as students, but it has taught us all a different form of work, not necessarily anything hard, but it gave us the ability to follow through with what we said we would do, and to make us better people by making us all people of our words.(Literally as we write so many blogs……)

But I think that we can all owe a great deal of it to Mr. Thompson as he was the one who was the one who made all of this possible for all of us, without him, none of us would be sitting at our computers at 10:00 every Sunday night… But I think that we all owe a great deal of respect and gratitude to Mr. Thompson as he was up nights a lot more than we were just to get things ready for us to be able to take this class and follow through, so a big round of applause for Mr. Thompson!!!