Getting a better reading level was harder that I thought it would be. In the eighth grade, I started out with a fourth grade third mouth reading level. I read for a hour every night that year in order to get my reading scores higher. I would read a whole book in a week or two. I had never done that before. I then at the end of the week I would write a page over what I had read that week so that I would retain what I read. That year I realized that there was a specific type of books I liked to read and that I did not mined reading. In May, I had to take another reading test to see what grade level I was on. My results where that I read on a eighth grade eighth months leval. I was still behind but I had improved a lot. A few months later I started ninth grade and was still in Lab classes. I did the same thing I had done the year prier. I finished ninth on grade level. This made me happy to see what I would get on my …show more content…
This was soothing that I had worked for and to know that I would not be in a different type of class and that the grade I got in that class would be the grade I worked for I was so ecstatic. Tenth grade I got an A in my English then eleventh grade came. We started talking about me maybe going to a votec. My parents and I decided that I would not go, but talked about my senior year going concurrent to college. By the time I was a senior I was enrolled at Oklahoma State University – Oklahoma City and only had four hours of class at high school. I had done something no one thought I could have done. I had taken three years of normal classes and had started college and had never dropped below a three-point eight grade point