Reflection On Enrique's Journey

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I believe that I have grown throughout the year. Mainly in my classes, such as English, Cultural Geography, Physical Education, Biology, Algebra 1 and Learning Lab. In my first class, English 9, I feel like I have grown in my reading level and my way of being able to understand what I am reading. For example, in the beginning of the year we read a book titled "Enrique's Journey" which I can easily talk about for hours. The book spoke of a young Honduran boy who attempts to get to his mother in the United States by riding 'The beast', which is what they call a very dangerous train that travels through the border between mexico and the U.S. Also we newly finished another book, called "Raisin in the Sun", it spoke of a story of an African American family during 1959. The characters that are in the book and that lived together are Walter, Ruth, Travis, Mama and Beneatha.They all are related in different ways,for example, Mama is the mother of Walter and Beneatha, and Walter is the father of Travis and married to Ruth. The main plot in this book is money and how it gets between the family and corrupts them. My second class is Cultural geography, which I can say is my favorite class. Throughout the year we have learned how to do different types of maps …show more content…

I learned not only how to factor number but I even learned how to use the quadratic formula to find the "x" in different types of equations. I also learned how to ask questions when I was stuck, which I should have learned a long time ago and that class i was most proud of myself because i raised my grade from a D+ to an A-. I think the main way I learned hoe to stay in track were on monday when we get our usual progress from Khan academy and evryone else in my table got perfect grades except for me. I felt really bad actually, so i started doing my work and taking part on my grades. And eventually I got there and felt

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