Free or Tied to the Curriculum?

Free or Tied to the Curriculum?

Being able to write in our discourse is something we have been discussing in class a lot for a while now.  We all seem to agree that we should be able to write freely with no judgment and without telling us that is not the way to do it. We also seem to agree that we need to know how to write some stuff the same way everyone else does in order to be prepared to go out to and do good in society. So what would you prefer? To be free and write how ever you want without having to follow the rules of standard English writing or constantly be wondering you are writing the right way instead of focusing on content? I personally think that we should be able to write the way we are most confortable in.

Ever since I was in middle school I was taught that the is one way of writing and that is standard English, one that every teacher understands and is able to easily grade a paper looking for parts where you broke the rule. 

Up until this year there was no teacher that et us write however we wanted it was always abut following the rules. That is why I really like this class because although we do follow the curriculum we are able to write in our own discourse. It makes us feel comfortable with writing and even extending more on our papers.  Students often think that having an English class past high school is a waste of time, we don’t appreciate it because it does not let us express the way we want to and need to.  We don’t think we need any more English classes because we are just too tired of being told that the way we want to express our thoughts is just wrong.  But my whole view on English classes changed when I entered this classroom and learned that our teacher was about to let us freely express our thoughts.

From what we have read about this idea we also discovered that there is a lot of controversy on whether or not we should be able to write freely once we enter the English classroom or if we should stick to the Standard English. Something I found really interesting g was the fact that the New SRTOL mentioned that teachers should be trained so that they are able to grade their students papers when they write in their own discourse.

Teachers being able to grade you without judging if you are writing the way you should or not is something that would be very much appreciated by many students. It would not only help them to be able to raise their grades in this particular subject but they would also stop complaining on how boring English class is. We don’t have to completely go off the curriculum in order to fit some of that Standard English into our writing; it would be nice to learn a little about both.