Letter to Mr. Luizzi

Dear Mr. Luizzi,

This year has gone by really quickly needless to say. While it was happenning it wasn't fun, but now that I look back at it, I really didn't mind all the work. I would regret it more if I didn't do it.

The research project was killer and I had so much fun handing it in, thinking about all the joys that you would have as you read through them all. I hope you enjoyed them. Sorry if that was taken sarcastically but it should have been. I spent so much time working on it, but I'm really happy with the grade I received.

I've always loved to read so I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the books, the countless number of books. The Great Gatsby was seriously the best book, but there's probably some hidden meaning yet to be discovered. I've never read so many books in one year, well except when I was in elementary school. I guess things haven't changed. Every year make the students read. Most of them won't enjoy it, but there will be the select few that do like to read.

I also enjoy this webpage stuff we do. I think it is a very creative way to show all the work that we've done. A lot of people say it has nothing to do with English, maybe not, but it has everything to do with creativity. And English is a creative subject, unlike math and science, which are more technical.

I do this every single year. During the year I always say I don't like the work, I don't like the teacher, I don't like anything. After the year is over, I forget everything bad that's happened and only thing of the good things. When people ask me I always say I loved all the work we did, I loved the teacher; he was so nice, blah blah blah. Nothing bad ever comes out of my mouth.

For next year's students I'd say that you should give them more time on the projects and the essays and the creative writing pieces. But on the other hand you wouldn't get as much work done. So it's up to you whether or not to give them less work and more time or vise versa. I survived through it, and so did everyone else in the class so maybe what you're doing isn't that bad.

If I could describe this year in one word, I don't think I'd be able to do it. I'd need a dictionary for this one. I think it would be strenuous: all the work, and then more work. But then again, it was also very productive, since I've never gotten so much work done in my life before in one year, in one class.

This class lived up to my expectations and more! I expected to do a lot of work because that's how it always is. Well we did more than a lot of work like I mentioned above. I never thought this webpage portfolio would be fun, but it turned out to be very exciting. That's probably the one thing I'll carry with me for the rest of my life. That is what I would say to someone 20 years from now. But then again, 20 years from now websites might be clichéd!

To the freshman coming in, all I have to say is be prepared! You never know what's going to happen.