What I Learned In 8th Class

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Now that I am (almost) finished with Honors English 8 (and just 8th grade in general), I have a lot of things to think about. For one thing, I shouldn’t have been so optimistic at the beginning of the year. I thought that just by getting into the 8th grade, all of my old bad habits would disappear in an instant. I have found that 1) that isn’t true AT ALL; habits take a long time to break, and 2) I didn’t really give myself the time to break said habits, and I ended up in an even deeper rabbit hole of missing assignments, which I was trying to avoid in the first place. Also, I need to stop finding scapegoats (which is a word I learned this year) and start acknowledging the fact that I suck at keeping myself accountable and actually doing the …show more content…
From deductive reasoning, my goal was to focus more on my essays. I think I mostly achieved this. For the narrative and expository essays, there was always one that I didn’t do until the very last minute, and that really hurt all the other essays’ grades. But, on the ones I did put more than minimal effort into, I truly did put in a lot of time and effort into these essays, substantially more than I did last year. Since I think I achieved my goal, my new one is to be more diligent about doing my homework (or just do my homework in general). This way, I’ll actually have a good grade in the class. In order to achieve this goal, I’m going to write all of my assignments down in a planner of some sort (do they give you a planner in high school?), have my parents review it with me before and after I do my homework, and keep it all in my English folder I have.
V. As I enter into high school, I feel more nervous for English. I decided to swallow my pride and take regular English so that I could give myself the wiggle room to improve. That being said, if I completely screw this up, it’ll be even worse since it’s not Honors English. And since I have a reputation of screwing up, it makes me worry about how I’ll do in high school, especially since it really counts now. Plus, it’s the only non-honors academic class I’m taking, so I’m worried that even if I improve in English, that I’ll fall behind in all my other
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