Dear Mrs. Genesky -- A thank you letter
Dear Mrs. Genesky,
Coming into high school, or this year even, English was never my strong suit. I'm a math guy, a practical, application-based guy. I like business, economics, and sports, and I was never the kid that sat in his room and read the entire Harry Potter series in one week (that's my sister). Coming into this year, I couldn't really say I liked English.
When I brought the reading list for this year home after the first day of class, I thought it was kinda weird that my parents were so happy about the books I would be reading this year. "Finally, some classics," they said, but if this meant no more Woman at Point Zero and The God of Small Things, then I wasn't complaining.
Then the year got underway, and after bit of a bumpy start with The Handmaid's Tale, I think I started to understand the purpose of this course (for me, at least) towards the middle of year. After reading Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde, and even The Old Man and the Sea again for a Paper 2, I started to realize the importance of these novels and of literature itself. These were not just stories of kings, doctors, and fisherman, but stories of mankind. Shakespeare, Hemingway, Whitman, and the rest of em were shedding light on human nature so that students like me can still learn from them hundreds of years later.
So, Mrs. Genesky, thank you. Thank you for not only helping to make English interesting and compelling, but for helping me to appreciate the value of literature. As corny as it sounds, it's true. There's a reason the endings to all my Paper 2's this year sound the same. That they talk about the author's ability to shed light on human nature to a timeless audience. And it is thanks to you. Thank you for making me at least somewhat of a college-ready writer, and helping me to analyze at a level I didn't even know existed. If you would've told me a year ago that my English class would be even half-way interesting and teach me valuable lessons that I can take with me, I'd say you're crazy. Yet here we are.
I feel so grateful to have had you as a teacher and cannot thank you enough for turning some sports-obsessed, math kid into one who can now be interested by and appreciate literature. I will definitely be coming back to let the those future students know that they better listen to you, whether that means 30 miles, or 3,000. Thank you.
Yours truly,
Luke White
Coming into high school, or this year even, English was never my strong suit. I'm a math guy, a practical, application-based guy. I like business, economics, and sports, and I was never the kid that sat in his room and read the entire Harry Potter series in one week (that's my sister). Coming into this year, I couldn't really say I liked English.
When I brought the reading list for this year home after the first day of class, I thought it was kinda weird that my parents were so happy about the books I would be reading this year. "Finally, some classics," they said, but if this meant no more Woman at Point Zero and The God of Small Things, then I wasn't complaining.
Then the year got underway, and after bit of a bumpy start with The Handmaid's Tale, I think I started to understand the purpose of this course (for me, at least) towards the middle of year. After reading Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde, and even The Old Man and the Sea again for a Paper 2, I started to realize the importance of these novels and of literature itself. These were not just stories of kings, doctors, and fisherman, but stories of mankind. Shakespeare, Hemingway, Whitman, and the rest of em were shedding light on human nature so that students like me can still learn from them hundreds of years later.
So, Mrs. Genesky, thank you. Thank you for not only helping to make English interesting and compelling, but for helping me to appreciate the value of literature. As corny as it sounds, it's true. There's a reason the endings to all my Paper 2's this year sound the same. That they talk about the author's ability to shed light on human nature to a timeless audience. And it is thanks to you. Thank you for making me at least somewhat of a college-ready writer, and helping me to analyze at a level I didn't even know existed. If you would've told me a year ago that my English class would be even half-way interesting and teach me valuable lessons that I can take with me, I'd say you're crazy. Yet here we are.
I feel so grateful to have had you as a teacher and cannot thank you enough for turning some sports-obsessed, math kid into one who can now be interested by and appreciate literature. I will definitely be coming back to let the those future students know that they better listen to you, whether that means 30 miles, or 3,000. Thank you.
Yours truly,
Luke White
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