I have successfully reached the first quarter of Heritage Middle School. Although, there have been struggles in many classes, I manage to overcome them. In Language Arts class with Mrs. Larson, I have learned many things such as writing a newscast, blogs, article of the week, annotating articles, etc. One struggle that I particularly find difficult is the time. The time limit I have when assignments and homework are due, I stay up sometimes until 9:00 p.m. completing blogs. I do sports outside of school such as swimming and I end practice at 7:45 p.m., when I get home from practice, I take a shower. It is a lot of responsibility for me ,as a student, to turn in homework on time, ask for help, and satisfy my teachers with the work I do. It may mean to stay up late, but I am okay with that because the homework my teachers give me, prepare me for being even more successful in high school. My brother says,” In high school, you fail or you pass.” This quote that my brother tells me is true because in high school, it is the real deal. It becomes harder to manage your time in completing assignments and getting good grades because you get pressure from colleges, you want to fulfill them. It is important for me to do my work on time because the less pressure I have to stand within me to getting it in on time. It takes a lot of concentration, but I know I will get good grades by pushing myself to become a better student.
Aside from struggles, Mrs. Larson gave us a 10 book challenge. Basically, the 10 book challenge is reading 10 books throughout the whole school year, but is optional only to choose 10 books to read. In ELA class, we have already read one book, The Giver. In the summer, our assignment was reading the book we chose to receive. My book was Papertowns. I have also read The Fault in Our Stars. This challenge Mrs. Larson gives us, is a really good technique for me because I occasionally do not read as much as I did in sixth and seventh grade. As the years have progressed, reading has helped me because I learn new words that I can use outside and in school.
Now that I have reached the first quarter of Heritage Middle School, there are three quarters left to complete and I'm off to high school. Some goals that I would like to achieve in Language Arts class, is to finish my 10 book challenge first, I would also like to learn to give a presentation to practice public speaking without getting nervous. For my eighth grade speech, I want to act confident because this is my last year in Heritage and I want to make myself proud by acing my speech. One goal that I would like to achieve as well is going back into the beginning to learn about prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions. I would like to back to learn more about this because my map score was less than what I expected, I want to get a higher score. I would have to read the text and determine the preposition being written, since I didn't know, I obviously guessed. For me to be more certain of my answers in my map tests, I would be willing to go back and learn about this because I get more intelligence out of it and remember the concepts of my learning. In conclusion, my first quarter in Heritage Middle School has been going great with the hard work I put into my classes.
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