The Importance Of My First Year Of High School

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When I was in middle school, I thought the work there was extremely easy and it required very little effort to keep up with my classes without really trying at all. So I questioned how it would things turn out when I get into high school. It was obvious that the workload that I would receive would be more than how it was in middle school but there was some changes I knew I had to do when I got into highschool. There was many things I wondered about when I start my high school experience. I wondered how my teachers were going to be like? I wondered how the homework and tests would be like? I wondered how difficult would it be to get straight A’s in all of my classes? But the things I wondered about was better than how I expect my first year of high school to be like. I thought my first year of high school would be quite the struggle but it was quite easy for the most part. I was able to do most of my work on time and turned them in on the due date, and I did fairly well on the tests. There was some projects that I was reluctant …show more content…
It was a smart decision to get there early because you can get the good lockers and find your classes. After I have located the general location of where my classes are going to be, I went to my first period class. It was my new class of AVID that I was going to spend with for the next four years in high school. I didn’t know what to expect when I first came in. Who was going to be our teacher? Who are the students? Is the work in this class going to be similar to how AVID was in middle school? My questions were answered quite shortly after school started. My teacher was Mr. Castro, most of the students were from Russell’s and Rancho’s AVID students, and the work was going to be quite similar for the most part. So that was one class I didn’t have to worry too much about for the

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