Self Evaluation Of My Performance

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Self-Evaluation of My Performance in 303

Throughout the course of the year, I have had innumerable pleasant experiences in room 303, though my performance has wavered day to day. For starters, we need to find a baseline for my high school English classes to establish how I am evaluating myself. My freshman and sophomore years I was in the honors program for English, but I wasn 't especially proud of my performance in any given area. Although I will say that freshman year I was proud to have wrote my memoirs, though the grammar lessons I learned sophomore year could have helped them out incredibly. While my performance was above average both of these years, I do not believe there was anything remarkable about what I was doing. During my junior year of high school, I dropped out of the honors program and opted for a lighter workload the year that I needed to focus on studying for the ACT. I was able to score a 28 on my ACT and was supremely pleased with this performance. Instead of choosing to return to the AP English class, I signed up for the Northwest College English Class. This year I know for a fact that I have been able to achieve some things that would have been impossible for me any other year of high school. Chiefly among these are my reading skills, participation skills, and even writing skills.

The first area that I 've performed well has been with my reading skills when we work with the literature in or outside of class. While I have always had a high reading level, I have always read at a literal level previous to this year. Any hidden themes or motifs incorporated in the text by the author was generally missed by me leading up to this year. Thankfully, Doct...

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While my lack of focus has held me back at various points in the year, overall I was happy with my improvements in my writing skills, my participation skills, and my reading skills. In earlier years I only knew how to use my own opinion in my writings, now I have the knowledge that allows me to include internal or external validations in my paper. My participation skills have been off the charts this year I believe, because I have been able to overcome mental barriers and participate in a way that allowed me to learn more than I have in previous years. Lastly, my reading skills have picked up and I am now proficient at spotting themes and details I would have missed in the past. It also does not hurt that I have enjoyed a great majority of what we have read in class this year, the British really knew what they were doing when it came to poetry.

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