Middle School Reflective Essay

In the summer of me graduating from elementary school and moving on to middle school. I thought middle school to have only a few changes to what elementary school was going to be like, I thought that the grades I earned in the past 5 years were going to be similar to ones I got now. I wasn't aware of how different middle school really was, no one told me about the differences between the two types of schools.

So then comes the last few days of summer left and I'm thinking to myself middle school going to be easy high school is the real challenge. At the time I was sure that I was right cause all of my friends thought that too. So I was just thinking I was ready and prepared. So then the first day of school comes and I was going through my classes, obviously, nothing was really happening because cause it was the first day. So my first thoughts were that yea its chill. But really I was really prepared for when I got introduced to summative tasks. Back in elementary school, we didn't have summative tasks. So I didn't really know what to expect when I got my first one assigned in English. …show more content…
My grades in elementary were basically average and some over average so I thought I would be good when we had to do the summative task. I don't really many details on what the summative was about and what I had to do. But all I do remember is that it was the hardest thing that I've done before. I thought my years in middle school were going to be easy I just wanted to pass my classes and move on. But with this project, I was really confused and didn't know how to do it. My mindset at the time wasn't the best. But then later that week or so when the summative was due in a week or so. I went to see my English teacher during recess. Which was something I've never done