Personal Narrative: My Elementary Experience

Many of us have had major experience that have shaped our life, but I have had two major experiences that have shaped me as a student. One was when I was in Elementary where I truly realized that I had to make a major change. I was young, had bad behavior, and was lacking the comprehension of actually caring for my education. I lacked to understand the basis of self-regulation and comprehension of time management. What was truly nerve racking was that I dint have no one’s help. My Elementary experience truly made me understand the value of self-motivation and realization of how alone we are in the actions we commit. This was and important transition for me, since It was the way I was shaped up for adulthood and have influence the way I have

Like the usual high school experience your just required to go to class and basically put attention with no effort to study or to do something that is no more demanding than that. That would all change when I decided to enroll to advanced placement classes especially on my U.S history class. This class was far more demanding that any class I have ever had. The first day Mrs. Carr made us write a paper of our expectations in her class and if there was a skill we wanted to acquire. I remember writing that I wanted to get better on my writing skills and that I wanted to improve in my over all grades. As the school year progressed I remember felling stress on how much work she would hang out. Many of my friends dropped her class due to the poor grades they would have. I was feeling lost I was used to having a lot of free time and that was all gone. She expected us to read three chapters each week with about twenty-page notes for each chapter. She would also give us homework every day not mentioning the quizzes and in class writing assignments. At first, I remember hating that class, blaming her for every bad grade I would get. I was totally lost, I would reread and reread the chapters, and I would still get bad grades in her class. Later in the school year she taught us and important skill which was to try different approaches in which the way we prepared for exams. She mentioned on how we were so preoccupied on trying to remember each detail or date that we forget to acknowledge the whole importance of the chapter and its significance to American history. By the end of the year we managed to improve our grades and we ended up with a hundredth percent of passing rate in the EOC exam. She mentioned the last day of school on how her whole purpose was not to stress us but rather to get us prepared for truly life experiences in which we where