Grade 7 Accomplishments

In everyone’s life people have accomplishments both big and small and they can have different meaning and influence for different people. Right now I am a 16 year old teenager looking to get good grades in school and have fun while doing it. I am in the tenth grade and attend the high school Riverdale Collegiate Institute. I have done many things that I consider to be accomplishments in my short time being alive from taking my first steps as a baby to dealing with braces for 3 years, but I feel that these three accomplishments are very important for me. During my grade 8 year at middle school I worked hard and at the graduation ended up winning the student of the year for my class. In grades 6 and 7 I made the school softball team in both years …show more content…
To win the award you needed to keep a high average above 80% and to show good citizenship and good qualities. For example, respect, responsibility and integrity. I worked hard throughout the whole year in all my classes by studying as well as doing extra work and ended the year off with a 85% average while also showing good citizenship and excellent leadership qualities by leading groups when it was called for and taking responsibility for my actions while showing respect to everyone. My teacher gave a little speech before he gave me the award saying that it was his privilege and joy to see a young student grow up and develop into a confident young man. He also said that I had a bright future ahead of me and wished me good luck on the journey that is high school. By winning this award I thought more highly and confidently about myself not just in an academic sense but in a general sense. It made me think that becoming that engineer would be hard but was now a lot more attainable. I felt quite proud and I was overjoyed to see that all the hard work I put into that year and by being my good natured self paid off in the