Evalution

     This fourth quarter has been the worst performance of my high school career.  I'm always prepared for class having my material on my desk ready for the days lesson, but when the class starts it seems that I cannot stay focused. I'm not the type of person to ask to go get water when I don't need nor do I ask to go to the bathroom when it is obviously not an emergency.  Lately I have not been checking my email so that has really hurt especially since teachers have been emailing showing their concern over my grades.  I appreciate that, but it seems that I still could not get it together in time.  I'm ashamed at my poor effort this quarter, but I am optimistic about next year because this has been a great teaching lesson to me.

     As the fourth quarter wore on I became more and more pessimistic in my classes.  I stopped taking notes. I did however continue to participate because in some cases I was sincerely interested in the topic at hand.  I like d Macbeth but I really disliked annotating especially when I had tons of other homework every night so sometimes I couldn't get to annotating, but that's no excuse.  Work that is assigned is meant to be finished and sometimes my work simply wasn't finished. I think I did great when it came to giving my peers the attention and respect needed when they were confused on something in class.  However, I would get off topic sometimes because I was worrying about the wrong things.  I should have been more focused. 

     I would say that 60% of the time I was focused on the work that was given to me.  As you might have realized I have a very hard time focusing on classwork especially when it is to be done independently.  I completed the work assigned most of the time. I stayed on task when working on assignments and I tried my best to not to disturb other while working.  

     I saw significant growth in the first months of school.  As the year wore on however, I began to deteriorate. I stopped turning in homework. I didn't pay attention in class.  I hope to improve and to keep improving next year so that I may have a successful high school career.