Personal Narrative: My 8th Grade High School

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I’m going to tell you about my 8th grade school year. There were a lot of ups and downs throughout this school year, and it was the hardest one that I have been in. But, even though it was tough, I still pushed through to the almost finish, because there are still 8 days left. My goals this year were to make the A team, play volleyball, get all A’s, and to find true friends.
The expectations that I had for my teachers was that the classes were going to be easy because of how they explained what we do. But then, as the year started, I could see that some of them were going to be hard. For example, our first Pearson assignment in Social Studies was 9 texts long. One of the expectations I had for myself was that I was going to be really organized. In real life though, I forgot about some assignments until the night before it was due and I had to do it at 10:00 o’clock that night. To be honest, I thought that my new math teacher was a guy. When I walked in on the first day we had a substitute and I asked him where our teacher was and he said that Ms. Barnard is not here
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My goals for freshman year are to make the volleyball basketball, and softball team. I also want to get all A’s and become friends with the upperclassmen, since I already know a lot of the soon to be seniors, juniors, and sophomores. I also want to strengthen my relationships with my friends that I have now. I will achieve these by putting my best foot forward and just being me. I will lean on my coaches, friends, and family to help me achieve all of these goals. I will track my progress throughout the year and rather than demanding perfection from myself right away, I will “gather together a series of past quizzes or tests, review your grades and set a goal to achieve a higher score on the next three”