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The grade that I think I have earned is a B-. There are many reasons why I think I earned this grade. Most of my grades are A’s or B’s but there are some F’s in there due to my absences. I feel like the A’s and B’s outway the bad grades. During SSR, I did meet most of my goals except for 1 or 2. Which isn’t bad, but not good. The only problem with my SSR grade is that I did not read outside of class. One goal for next semester is to read outside of class.
I do think that the other pieces of my portfolio are quality because I did spend time and effort on those and I do feel very good about the rest of it. I have never liked English throughout my school career, so basically my attitude has been bad about it. This year has been

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