Reflection on Growth During Tenth Grade English Class
My growth during tenth grade English can almost be considered as great as the jump from childhood to being an adult; from this year alone, I have learned many new skills and made new realizations on my lifestyle. Last year, I took an Honors English class where all we did was read a few stories, take a test on them, and write a couple of non-related essays on Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Thomas Malory’s Le Morte de Arthur, and natural disasters; on each of these, I procrastinated to the point where I would be waking up to catch the bus three hours later.
But this year made me realize that I had to stop doing this, start managing my time, and start learning about English. With the unexpected onslaught of timed writes, analysis papers, reading assignments, and grammar packets combined with my schedule of Honors and AP classes, it made me drop my bad study habits and in the process master identifying the underlying elements in reading, such as tone and diction. At the end of it all, I believe that I have grown very much in the period of my sophomore year and have realized that high school is nothing that you can cruise through and pass, unlike my ninth grade English class.