Growth Narrative

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Growth Narrative:
I believe that this second quarter I have followed the “Behaviors and Attitudes” guidelines better than I did the first quarter. As we talked about in my conference first quarter, I display my academic abilities on many fronts. Like the first quarter, I threw all my ideas out to the class during Socratic seminars and I always tried to come up with answers to questions that the class is asked, so it is easy to say I contributed to the class and I engaged in the learning. I am also thorough; as you have stated when referring to my notes and how I continually refer back to the text when I write. I know that these points actively display my active participation in class and why I deserve a good grade this semester. While I have maintained my studious approach to this class, however, now that I have received feedback, I am able to say I have improved my writing and abilities …show more content…

The main point I had hoped to improve on after the quarter was to take more intellectual risks. Even though the Julius Caesar 10-on-1 analysis does not have any comments, I feel like that is the best example of my improvement. Before the second quarter had started, I was making some claims that were obvious to even the most incompetent of people and others that were just not as profound as they could have been. However, after the first quarter conference, I would actively look for claims that were more specific and intellectually deep. The claim of “manipulation playing off of other’s ignorance, often causing political upheaval(s)” I came up with for the Julius Caesar 10-on-1 analysis was a claim specifically I was extremely proud of due to it being extremely relevant to the book as a whole as well as Shakespeare’s intent when placing the

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