9th Grade
How has my performance in 9th grade prepared me for 10th grade? After reflecting on my 9th grade year. I have written a five-paragraph reflective essay that discusses aspects of three of my classes and proves my readiness for the 10th grade.
My 9th Grade Self
I came into 9th grade as a very organized student, and continued to strive to be one all of the way through the school year. I found my organizations skills were extremely important during the reverse engineering car project. Which is the math recreation of a historical image project and the book in a box Project. Although staying organized with little stuff like homework is just as impotant, because doing bad on little assignments can really mess up your grades. I may have improved in this area, but I didn’t consider how important time management also is. During my third quarter of 9th grade, I was awful with time management. I couldn’t figure out how to get five classes of homework done in one night. I thought picking out the assignment from the class that I was doing the worst in, and working at that one first. Then I would work my way down to the class that I was doing the best in. Sometimes I wouldn’t even get to that assignment, so I was sacrificing one grade for another. Turns out, that wasn’t okay. When I wasn’t doing an assignment, I became weaker with the content, and I was falling behind. I was still trying to understand the last thing that we had learned. During 4th quarter, I got a math tutor for after school. Because of this I was able to control that time more without getting super stressed and not doing assignments. My math tutor helped me catch up on where I had fallen bahind. Getting control of my time management, and no longer wasting class time trying to understand past in-class content.
My 10th Grade Readiness
I am ready for tenth grade, because I have gotten back my ability to stay organized, and I am able to communicate better when I am really struggling. Instead of just telling myself that I don’t know how to do something, I have developed a better growth mindset, and I can think about better ways that I can approach a problem that I am facing at the time. In tenth grade, I have the full intention of pushing myself to get everything done as early as I possibly can, but still getting all of my work correct. This year I have learned that utilizing my study hall time more is very effective, because it gives me more time to do my work and ask questions if I’m struggling, before I get home, where I often struggle the most and often would resort to not finishing the assignments.