Arthur Where Are Your Periods

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Periods, Arthur where are your periods. Units, Arthur where are your units. Work, Arthur you have not showed any your work. A failure to use periods, units, and showing my work were my three biggest issues during the duration of high school and middle school. My teachers would say things like, you would have got a hundred but you do not have any periods. Or, you had all the right answers, but you did not show any of your work. As a student back then, I always felt as long as I could obtain the correct answers, and express my thoughts clearly, I did not need to have these three things. However, a failure to use these three simple things made my grades slip. It was not until I sat in a conference, during my 10th grade year, that a man said, the

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