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I had a great English teacher my senior year in high school. She was always thinking of creative ways for us to learn. Her unique teaching style got all of the students very interested and enthused in the classroom. The whole semester was a positive experience for me.
One particular assignment is still memorable to me today. She was teaching us ways to write descriptively, by having us draw a picture of a "monster." It could be as simple or as complex as we wanted, but it had to be in "color." After drawing our pictures, we were to describe it in great detail (by writing a paragraph). The idea was then to read another person's description and try to pick out their monster based on what we read. The more detailed the writing, the easier it was to find the picture that went with it.
I felt this was a fun way to teach descriptive writing to us. Some of us were hardly artists, but it didn't matter. We all had a blast doing the assignment and someday I hope to do the same thing in my class!