Explores the meaning of these experiences and how you gained an awareness of the connections between these moments and your prior knowledge.

Assignment 1

Watch the film Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare.

Discuss 3 things that you learned from watching the film and something(s) that surprised you or piqued your curiosity

What is a “Reflection Essay”:

Reflective Background and Context

The first part of your reflection paper should briefly provide background and context in relation to the content or experiences that stood out to you.

Highlight the settings, summarize the key readings, or narrate the experiences in relation to the assigned content.

Reflective Interpretation

Drawing from your reflective analysis, this is where you can be personal, critical, and creative in expressing how you felt about the assigned content and how it influenced or altered your feelings, beliefs, assumptions, or biases about the subject of the material and/or the course.

This section also explores the meaning of these experiences and how you gained an awareness of the connections between these moments and your prior knowledge.

It is important to include specific examples drawn from the assigned material and placed within the context of your assumptions, thoughts, opinions, and feelings.

A reflective narrative without specific examples does not provide an effective way for the reader to understand the relationship between the course content and how you grew as a learned