9th Grade Reflection Artifacts
9th Grade Reflection Paragraph
I have grown most in my ability to be confident in my ability to understand content yet get help when I need it. On the test for Geometry, I worried a lot. However, I studied by looking over the notes like normal but I did not look over them as much as I felt I should have and I worried about the test the entire time, especially because my previous scores on the content tests were F’s. Although, the other quarters I still got a B in the class, I was worried about my ability to understand the content, for I was getting an A or B overall but not on the test over all of what we learned that quarter. This bothered me. I noticed in the other quarters (we had one content test per quarter), I would usually ask my friends a lot of questions because I may not have been understanding how to do the geometry we had to do and I feel like I sometimes was more confused after I asked another clarifying question. So, instead of doing that, I tried to do it on my own. I got to a point of realizing I needed help sometimes because doing it entirely alone wasn’t getting me good scores on assignments. Every quarter I’d have asked my friends how to do it and I did so this quarter too, except this time, I also took time outside of class to ask questions from my friends and my mom and watch YouTube videos or read something online. Or I could use info from my notes again about how to do the geometry I was learning. This was so I could try to understand it better. Then, after doing that, on the test I got (not even just a low C like I thought I would get), but a B! This also was the grade that had me, for the first time in 9th grade, get an A in Geometry instead of a B for the quarter and so I could have all A’s on my report card for that quarter. I did all of this through learning how to ask for others’ help an appropriate amount, how to use my resources to better comprehend content, and also learned that I should be more confident because I actually understood it better than I expected sometimes without clarifying all the time.