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How I Struggled in 9th Grade
In ninth grade, I struggled with the Chinese Pictograph project. During this project we had to make a poster and write a short, half page report about two Chinese characters, their meaning, the oracle bone (pictograph) form of the characters, their pinyin, the radicals of each word, and a drawing to help us remember what each of the characters meant. There was also another portion of the project where we had to make another poster that was about our chinses name, the traditional and standard form of each characters, the oracle bone (pictograph) for each character, what the characters mean, the stroke order for the characters, the Chinese radical for the character, and a drawing to help us remember what the character meant. We learned a lot overall through this project, but I learned that the Chinese character mainly do look like what their definition is if you think about it.
I found myself struggling with finding the oracle bone portion of this project. I overcame my struggle by continuing to be persistent, by asking my peers how that found their answers. I had to persist because if I gave up I wouldn’t have gotten all of the points, and I would have gotten a bad grade. I really want to get an A average in Chinese for the whole year, which I did end up getting.
Sometimes I still struggle with persistence, but in order to be a successful student, I have to learn to keep going, or you will fail. The same concept goes for me as a pitcher in softball, I will never get better if I just keep give up.
This poster shows that I learned that men means gate and mu means tree in Chinese, it also shows all of my other information that I discovered.
This is the poster that I did about my name, and I wrote all of the newly found information, like how my name means rice woodworm beautiful.
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