3rd Quarter Reflection

4/8/16

3rd Quarter Reflection

Prompts: 

- *In what area do you think you made your biggest improvements in English Language Arts?

- *What is something you have accomplished this quarter that you are proud of?

- *What has been the most challenging part of 3rd Quarter for you and what did/can you do to help overcome this?

The area I think I have made the biggest improvement in is how to format sentences. I would usually just format them by what I think would be expected, but then learned there really was more to it. For example, when it came to introductions I just did what needed to get attention from that paragraph, then I learned that there is a really precise way of doing it. I just thought, if it sounded good I would be expecting a good grade from that introduction. How to properly do the conclusion was easy to understand when it came to the essay, and that significant helped with my writing.

I think writing the argumentative essay is what I am most proud of out of the third quarter. At first, I thought it was going to be frustratingly painful to finish, but looking back it seemed to be easy once you understood it. I was really happy with the topic I chose because I really care about the wellbeing of animals and keeping them away from all the test and experiments seemed something I was willing to fight for. It was actually really hard to find legitimately good sources and it took a long time to find information from the decent sources. Some provided more help than others and some of the things pulled out of those sources was not the best information, so I left a lot of that out. The hard work was worth it though, through the revisions the essay got better and better, which is because for some reason I just felt really focused with that project. The biggest reason I think I am proud of this is because I didn't really ignore this assignment like some others.

I think the most challenging part for the third quarter has been catching up on my reading. The battle of the books was fun for me last year because I made a good amount of progress from the start, but now it seems like I am dramatically falling behind. I think I really should just keep as much focus on this competition and really try and not neglect the little time I have left. I hope somehow I can actually break through this problem because my group and I have been through some difficulties with one of the shortest books and that set me behind. I really need to push myself more when it comes to this, I need to be more committed.