Project 1-Kyle Groves

I have never had to try exceptionally hard to do well in school. For as long as I can remember, I have never had any trouble understanding any lessons. I could even help peers that did not understand completely. I never really had to study to get above satisfactory grades. In middle school and the first two years of high school, this was true for ever course I had taken. My weakest course was English because since about fifth grade I halfway struggled writing papers and did not enjoy reading all that much. Early on I discovered I could cheat the system and not have to read every reading assigned because we would just discussed it in class. If I listened well during the discussion, I would do well on the quiz. It was a big wakeup call when I entered my junior year English Honors class. I thought this class was going to be a breeze like all the other classes I had previously done well in. I was wrong. I took the same approach to this course as I had other courses and my grade in the first four weeks or so definitely reflected the effort I put into the course. I realized that I would have to take a different approach to this course and try harder. Even though I started trying harder and reading the assigned books, I found my grade was not going up very fast. I discovered how poor of a writer I actually was because before this year, we were not really required to write more than a five paragraph essay. I had to go the teacher for extra help and I discovered I could get involved in the "academic community" of that class to get even more help.