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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.

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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

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