Personal Narrative: Advanced Geometry Class

I am sure that all of us have had a moment where we panic because we forgot about a quiz and we didn’t study for it. But have you been handed a study guide and you aren’t able to do anything on it? In middle school, I took Advanced Geometry and Honors Algebra 2 together in the same year. In geometry class, we were just given a worksheet, and we were expected to understand how to do it from looking at the examples provided at the top of the worksheet. We would get at least three worksheets a week, and if we didn’t finish them in class, which nobody ever had time to finish them in class, then it was homework due the next day. Sometimes, it got really frustrating. My teacher would never explain the worksheets, she just gave them …show more content…
The week before our exam, my teacher handed us our thirteen page, eight units, study guide of everything that was going to be the exam- problems and just general information that we need to know for it. Turns out, I only remembered how to do the things in the last unit we covered. I could not remember how to do anything else. So, I turned to my notebook. I opened the first page. Blank. Turned to the second page. Blank again. Third, blank. Fourth. Blank. Blank, blank, blank! There was not a single number or letter written down on any of the pages. There were plenty of drawings, however. I start to panic. I have an entire five days before my exam. Plus, I have extracurriculars after school all week. I didn’t think that there was a single hour that I could study for the exam.

I took a book home. And relearned how to do a whole eight units. I started by doing what I thought could be right on the packet. That method only got me to six right questions out of almost fifty. Once I saw that that method was not working, I just started reading through the textbook unit by unit to be able to understand and to comprehend what I was doing fully. This actually