Grade Nine Reflection

Creating goals and sticking to them helps a person grow and learn, and I myself have experienced this. Before grade nine I made the goal of participating more in class thanks to my grade eight teacher who suggested that I should break out of my shell and share my great ideas more since I never actually did in elementary. I tried my best to try to participate in summer school transitioning to grade nine, and it was the hardest place to ever participate in class. Almost everyone in the class was an advanced placement student and rose up their hand way faster than I could ever think! I felt that I would never catch up to the critical thinking of the advanced placement students, but I did not give up, for there was still grade nine ahead. When …show more content…
As the year went by, I began to give more relevant opinions and to think more critically; now I feel like an improved student. It still feels strange seeing myself as someone who speaks and participates in class, but it helped myself to grow as a student since I now think more critically. I stuck to my goal and never gave up on being a greater participant in class. My grades, in fact boosted from grade eight! I feel astonished with my own self knowing that I am capable of thinking like an excellent student. I learned that I could further reach my potential just by sticking to a goal and trying no matter how hopeless it may seem at first. All hard work and effort pays off through the process of trying to accomplish a goal, and till this day I do not regret saying any of the incoherent ideas I had at …show more content…
First of all, I want to tell you one of my great outcomes of setting a goal. I had set a goal for myself in grade nine and it had greatly helped me to succeed in school. My goal was to be more of an active participant in class. Being an active participant in class was difficult at first since I was shy, but slowly throughout the year, my unclear thoughts turned into relevant ideas, and as a result got better grades than I had before. Set goals and do not give up on them, they encourage you to improve yourself. Also, I also cannot stress enough how important it is to take risks. Please take risks while you still have years ahead for you in high school, not peer pressured ones, but the risks that improve yourself as a person. These experiences will be part of you and will help shape your personality since those risks you take never leave you. A risk I took was joining my school’s junior trivia team. Being a grade nine student who was the only one not in an advanced placement class, of course I was the weakest member, however despite that, the experience was worthwhile because I made a friend and I learned to have better time management since we had more than eight tournaments when I usually came home at around seven. Lastly, things will not always go as you plan dear, but please remember that failure is not the end of the world. Failure makes you stronger since you will