Reflection Essay

The adjustments that I have made to become a stronger reader have not always been easy. However, it became feasible in my junior year of high school when I decided to with draw myself from a standard level English to an advance placement course to face the challenges that came along with learning new material at a faster pace. Nevertheless it was also a comparison between my more advance peers and me.

Before being able to transfer, a contract is printed stating what the class consist of, how heavy the work load is, and explaining the benefits that come out of reserving a spot in a higher leveled class. The classroom atmosphere had its perks since my peers and I shared a common interest, to learn how to write. Usually in the standard classroom setting there are numerous distractions such as cell phone vibration, side conversations, and small about of horseplay that some times robbed me of my lectures. Not completely neglecting that I did learn some literary devices and how to form a proper sentence but once I advance I became challenged with vocabulary quizzes daily, timed writings, scheduled Socratic Seminar which untimely

Typically from the high school that I graduated from the boys and girls kind of raced to see who would be victorious in the class room. There were some slackers on both parts. Which I could relate in from the article saying that “girls read more books” (60), in my case they did in the class work that was assigned the girls were the first one to actually start and complete the work given. I did not want to be apart of the percentage of kids that di not pull there own weight. Also I noticed in Sommers article was the drop out list for boys. The males at my old school typically dropped out before there senior year “Boys also dominate the dropout list, failure lists, and learning disability lists.”