Anyway, I want to talk about my goal for quarter 2, and yeah, my goals are pretty basic like others, but unlike some people I actually want to put the work into these goals. Like that old saying goes, "You can talk the talk, but you can't walk the walk" and I want to show that I can walk the walk. So, in order to do that I need to talk the talk for some goals.
My first goal is pretty much the same as some of the others you'll read about, wanting 3's and 4's. Though I want that, I want it to be better. I want to show that someone like me who came from the bottom, doing really bad in 6th grade, could be someone better than that, I feel that I have so much things that I can do great, do critical success in, but I can't do that unless I put a work ethic into it. Doing this can get me somewhere, I could finally be in Mrs. Larson's class and prove everyone who doubted me wrong. I could get into a great high school leading to a great college. But behind all of that, I need to try, because trying can get you noticed and somewhere. That is why I want to get 3's and 4's.
My second goal was mentioned in the paragraph above, being in Mrs. Larson's class. Now the reason why I know I most likely was not in it in 7th grade was because of my ability to work in 6th grade. I didn't really care about how I did in 6th and just gave up. Later going into 7th, my English Teacher, Ms. Gardner had saw how I was doing and had a talk with me. She felt that I had so much more potential that I had that I had not shown and she wanted to be show it because it could get me great benefits like being in Mrs. Larson's class. At first I thought to myself "why would I want to be in there?" Later around this time of the year two students in my class were moved up to her class and I noticed later when I talked to them how different they spoke with their new vocabulary and how they were 2 weeks ahead of our class learnings. Now that is what convinced me, I always been the guy who wants to be ahead, who wants to be advanced and with that I improved my grades for the better. I was becoming a major honor roll student with a majority of A's and becoming a constant participant in my classes. All of this and I still wasn't called up for Mrs. Larson's class, I wasn't called up to my accelerate| math class and I felt cheated out. I felt that I was working just as hard as the two students who got moved up to the class. I asked my Ms. Gardner why I wasn't moved up even though I put up more work ethics in my class and she said one, "They were too full." And two, "You need an A and maintain that A to be in her class." I'll admit that I wasn't that best at having an in Language Arts, but I did feel that I was doing good enough where I could be inserted in her class. End of the year came by and nothing happened. Now with this school year I came in with a different perspective, I wasn't looking at the decelerated English Language Arts, I was looking at the next step to her class, and I feel that this year is going to be the year.
So yeah, I know that this isn't much, but these are my goal for the year, and unlike other people I wanted my goal to have a meaning and soon to be accomplished goal for this quarter.
