Reflection Post

Not a lot of events in my life had a significant impact on my life so i remember the ones that did happen clearly and in great detail. One such event was in third grade i had a problem with blaming people and everything else except myself for my own shortcomings and failures, but then again i guess so did a lot of kids my age. It was like if i got trouble for talking i would blame it on the person i was talking with and cause a huge problem and a ugly mess. If I failed a test i blamed the teacher for not teaching me properly although i knew well enough i had not payed attention. Or i really didn't get it and didn't ask for help even though i knew i desperately needed it. So after a half of year of failures my parents were called in and im not sure what i did but i had an epiphany about how my actions were affecting my classmates, myself, and my future. So i buckled down and soon i became known as one of the smartest kids in my class and my teacher kept making jokes about how she was going to bring in everyones parents to make them work as hard as i had started working. It made me feel accomplished and as if you werent born smart but you had to work to attain the knowledge you gained and you had to work hard for good grades. So in my memories this was the point in time i stopped at the crossings between a delinquent and a good student and i turned the other way back and i havent ever turned around since although i do get lazy sometimes and procrastinate more than i should.

Reflection Post #2

This past week looking back i did everything i planned to do with my classes and my reading. I was able to do my reading for Read 96. Using what i learned so far i annotated, rephrased titles to make them into questions, highlighted the first sentence of every new heading, and highlighted all the important parts to make rereading easier. Using such techniques i was able to rememeber most of the answers for the quiz this friday. My Math class went as planned and i breezed through that and it still doesnt seem to be getting any harder. My spanish class is pretty easy since im a native speaker already i dont really need to concentrate on anything other than spelling but i still use some of highlighting and annotating to remember new words i never knew. Now looking forward my Math class still seems like its on the same direction so i dont plan to change anything there. My reading class has stabilized over the last several weeks and ive gotten used to the workload all i need to do is utilize the new patterns and graphs we've learned over the past week and ill be fine. My spanish class is still the same with occasional quizzes here and there but no increase in difficulty, workload, or reading so i dont plan on changing anything there either.