6-8 Reflection

I was a horrible student in middle school. My homework was never done on time and I hated everything about school, so I stopped trying. Even though my homework was never done, though, I still managed to pull off pretty high grades on my tests and my report cards. I was on the Honor Roll most times, and when I wasn’t I was definitely on the Merit Roll. I didn’t do any sports and I never participated in any school functions or spirit days because I was convinced it was uncool. For the most part, I was kind of isolated from everyone. However, my friends forced me to go to a few Fun Nights and I had a blast every time. My favorite class was French because we always had so much fun together, but I also loved Technology because I got to make things and work with things hands-on. Although, it was fairly obvious that my teachers didn’t like me due to my lack of homework and participation in class. I almost failed Social Studies in 7^th grade because I didn’t do any of the final project. Similarly, in 8^th grade Social Studies, I only did half of my final project, so I got a really bad grade for that marking period. Of course, I was like that in all of my subjects, except math. In 8^th grade I took Integrated Algebra, which was the advanced math class that took 9^th grade math. My highest grades were in that class, and I think that’s what saved my report card. I didn’t really care about any of my other classes because I figured none of it mattered until high school, so I would just start over in 9^th grade. Needless to say, middle school was not the highlight of my academic career.