raised expectations

over the past week i have been pretty surprised at how every member of English 101 has preformed. I knew that since this was a collage level course the students who would be there would be the kind that had worked for there good status in the subject, what i wasn't expecting was how even the students who really didn't give an impression of English appreciation ended up being just as involved in the class as anyone else. Heck, just the notion of an involved class is being redefined here,where as in my old classes only had half the kids paying attention and only one four is actually contributing anything to it in this class its like you have to do a silly song  and dance routine in order to get anyone's attention because everyone has some incredibly sophisticated point they want to bring up, even the jocks are arm wrestling each other in order to get a word in. I know this sounds like it could get really annoying but for me it's been really nice to let someone else carry on the conversation for once. A good example of all this would be when we were given our first group project and i was stuck with what i was sure was going to be a group that shoved all their writing work on me because none of them had read the book, but low and behold not only had everyone there read the book but each person had notes on things that even i had failed to pick up. So there you are, everyone's been a real asset in a great working environment, who'd have thought.