My Challenges In To Kill A Mockingbird

I had some challenges in the first semester. I realized that it gets harder every year. I felt like ninth grade was a bit easier than this year. The final for English was easy. There were only two questions. We took a final for the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. My goal is to have good grades, but also pass every class so that I don’t have to retake any. I want to be able to graduate on time. It always gets hard when almost end of the semester. That is the time when teachers start to give out more work. It’s a good idea but the same time bad. It can help bring grades up for some people. Most people are lazy so they rather not do it and fail the semester. My challenge was trying to focus with so many distractions in the way.

There were some
things I did to be successful first semester. We had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and take notes for every chapter. I felt like that was the easiest assignment. It just took a while to finish it all. Some ways to always be successful is always go to school and be on time. It’s better to show up because you could learn something new every day. I talked to some of my teachers about my grade. Last year I would do my work and homework last minute. I didn’t want to like that no more, so I started doing my work with time this year. Everyone should do their work if they want to succeed. I know that sometimes we are lazy, but that’s not going to help at all.

There are some things that I didn’t do and I need to try or improve on this new semester.
We did a speech about our similarites with the story A Vist To Grandmother’s. I need to improve on mkaing my voice louder. My voice was soft and low. I think I just get nervous when everyone is looking at me. There were some oportunities to go with UCI tutors. I was thinking about going since I didn’t really understand some lessons from some of my classes. I don’t want to get stressed out as much no more. Last year I was working so hard to bring all my grades up at least to passing grades. It’s a good idea if I go after school to any of my classes when my teachers have the oportunity or are able to stay after school. Sometimes teachers give us their time, but we don’t take advantage of it.

I didn’t really enjoy my first semester. I felt pressured and stressed. I felt like I had a lot of work to do. I hate having a lot of homework, because then I don’t have any time left for myself. We also get graded for our participation. I need to raise my hand more in this class to get participation points. This assignment made my grade go down a lot. Every year it gets harder and there’s a lot more work to do every time. Just thinking about it, gets me feeling
lazy.