It’s amazing how far, I’ve come in the last two years. Today was my move in day at Suny purchase as literature major, I’m officially a sophomore! To commemorate this day, I wanted to show the letter I wrote to the man that inspired to pursue what I’m doing today. My high school 11th grade AP English teacher. Mr. Scott.
Dear Mr. Scott,
I would like to thank you for teaching AP English 11 the way you taught it last year. I feel like that was one, if not the only class that I truly enjoyed in my whole high school career. Don't get me wrong I've had other good teachers in Athena; Mr. Carges ,Ms. Lane, Ms. Gallo. But with each course there was always something off. Like with Mr.Carges, he's a great teacher but the subject he taught never truly interested me while I was in the class. The thing about Gallo and Lane, like your class they're both english classes but unlike yours their curriculum is very restrictive in my opinion, and if you haven't noticed I'm a very liberal person. They don't mix.
Ap English 11 was the one class where I felt I learned a majority of things that I had no knowledge of before I started the class. It was the class where I was introduced to rhetoric, literary elements(Literary elements were probably taught in earlier years I just didn't pay attention) and different pieces of work and authors that I never heard of before that changed my perspective of the world.
Four of the most valuable things I feel you taught me last year were Plato's "Allegory of the cave", that changed my whole perspective on Greek philosophers and philosophy leading me to look into them further. The book In To The Wild , it was an amazing book that probably would've taken me weeks to pick up on my own in Barnes & Noble. That book was also something that made me question myself, my aspiration, the reasons for my aspirations and society as a whole. The third thing that you taught me that i'm still partly looking up if Henry David Thoreau: you introduced him to the class when teaching about the rhetoric in "Civil Disobedience", and that led me looking more into him and eventually reading Walden. I'd say that was one of the best books i've read. At Least in the top 15.
