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Sambhav i liked your goal has a timeline you said to achieve this goal by the end of the second marking period you gave a measure you went from 60% to 80% the only thing I did not agree on was the image it did not have anything to do with achieving your goal.

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Bernaldo i like that you set a goal for yourself to reach you used to be able to quote skills 80% improved and your goal is very specific. One thing I would've changed is your choice of image it does not really relate to you achieving the goal.

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The goal i set for myself was to be more efficient when it comes to my writing speed in order to hand in work on time. To do this i set a time limit every time i had an assignment given to me. Instead of a slow and steady pace that i was used to i challenged myself by giving said restrictions. One of the main reasons I've set this goal is because i have noticed a trend from the beginning of the year which was that i procrastinate and get distracted quite easily. This goal was sort of a counter measure for that in some ways... After starting to put my goal into effect i noticed that it dint matter that id get distracted anymore. This was because while seeing my paper over 75% complete my brain would tell me "you can finish this by the end of the day" which most of the time would be true.

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The goal I set for myself was to be able to read the texts faster and being able to annotate at least 75% of the text so when I go back in to the text I know what each paragraph is about with ease and speed. I have accomplished this and much more I read the text at a faster pace now and I am able to annotate 90% of the text now to the point where if I look back at a specific paragraph and glance at my annotations I will know what its about without having to read the whole paragraph again. My academic focus now for my senior year is to keep my overall average for each marking period at or above an 85.My focus after high school would be to go to college and get my degree in engineering. I've made this choice because I want to pursue this career. I love engineering and that is what I want to do everyday

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The goal I once set was to better analyze texts and to be able to get all of the information out of it and to be able to apply it to other things. I also initially said that I would be better at annotating. I said that I would be able to do this 90% of the time and that I would be able to do this by the end of the second marking period.  Now that the second marking period is over, I have grown when it comes to analyzing different stories and articles. I have been able to make a lot of connections from the story to real life. Examples of these connections are text to self, text to text, and text to world. I still have to improve on my annotating skills. I have to make better questions and define more complex vocabulary words. Going into my senior year, my main focus would be to become better at annotating different stories and articles. When it comes to annotating, I became better when it comes to capturing the big ideas in the texts. The problem that I am struggling with is being able to make level 3 questions and to define more complex vocabulary words. So that will be my main focus in my senior year.  My professional focus would be to go to college. I want to go to college to become either a computer technician or to be a part of law enforcement. I have made the computer technician choice because my IT Fundamentals shop class is my favorite class. I love to learn about computer engineering. I made the law enforcement choice because I watch a lot of movies/shows with cops in them.

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The goals I set for myself was by the end of the second marking period, I would be to develop my writing skill of elaboration by being specific with my inferences about the text & citing clear evidence from the text at least 90% of the time in a piece of writing. Now that we have ended the second marking period and now going into the third marking period, I was able to achieve my goal of citing clear evidence from the text at least 90% of the time in a piece of writing. This was one of my goals for the second marking period because when I used to write my essays before, I would cite evidence but the evidence I cited would not be strong enough to back up my argument which affected my grade because my argument was strong but my evidence was weak. Now when I cite my evidence I tend to look for the strongest piece of evidence that would support my argument effectively. An area I need to focus on more is my second part of my goal which is being specific with my inferences about a text. I need to work in this part of my goal because when I used to make inferences about a specific text, my inferences would be very vague and it would include any details to support that inference. Now when I make inferences about a specific text its a little more detailed but it still isn't strong enough to support that text. An academic strengths that I acquired that I didn't have before is group leadership. Before I acquired this skill, I used to just go along with other ideas without going the extra mile to express my own ideas to my peers which would ruin the purpose of being in a group. Currently, I take the initiative to express my own ideas to my group which allows us to discuss our ideas in a meaningful way and gain a strong understanding of the task at hand. As I move into my 12th grade year, my personal focus for this year is to pass all my classes with a 95-100% and to focus on my computer based classes so I can gain the knowledge and experience to move on to college and major in computer science or information technology. I want to focus on these two goals specifically because most students tend to slack off when its their last year in high school but I believe you should stay focus and  always strive for greatness no matter what because you never know what opportunities can be granted to you and I want to focus on my computer based classes the most because I want to work with the MTA in the near future and in order to be the best at what I want to do I want to gain enough experience from my computer classes .

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The goal i set for myself was to be more efficient when it comes to my writing speed in order to hand in work on time. To do this i set a time limit every time i had an assignment given to me. Instead of a slow

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The goal I set for myself was that at the end of the 2nd marking period I wanted to be able to develop my explaining details and quotes skills by using and understanding the evidence from the text at least 80% of the time. Now I feel like i am able to do it 100%. Compared to before, now i am able to read a text and take the most important parts and explain them thoroughly. As I move on to the 12th grade my academic focus would be to be able code a lot better so that when I get to college to start me game design/ computer science classes, I am more advanced at what I will be doing. I am thinking of going to College more that starting a career because the career I want to go into requires u to have at least an Associates Degree in Computer Science.

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The goal I initially set for the marking period was that I wanted to be better at analyzing texts. I feel like I have grown a lot. When I read articles, I am able

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The goal I had set for myself this semester was developing my analyzing skills and organizing evidence. I know I achieved this goal because of my improvement in my grades. Before, I use to get 65's on all my articles but now i get nothing less than an 80. I still need to focus more on gathering more evidence and organizing it way better because there's always room for improvement. As I move into my 12th grade year, my goal is to pass all my classes with an 85% or higher. Also for entering my college career I want pursue mechanical engineering. My reason for this is because growing up as a kid I always helped my dad work on his car and I began to grow a strong passion for it.

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For the first and second marking period my class goal was to improve in annotating using the five or more pointer as well as citing evidence. Now that I am at the end of the second marking period I have improved in annotating and citing evidence by breaking a text down piece by piece for an better understanding, finding the importing facts, the theme as well as making notes with highlights . With the accomplishment and improvements in my goals I'm am more comfortable with using the five pointers circling and underling, vocabulary and definition, summering each section as well as asking questions that relate to the text. For the rest of the school year I want to continue to take these steps with every task I receive along with my journey through out college . I would want to go to college to peruse in the major of business and with this major I would need to be strong in my writing, able to think outside of the box with a clear view and being creative along the way as well as being able to mange working papers and money. I would want to gain more experience in math and continue on with writing so I can be fully prepared by the end of my senior year of high school.

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During the beginning of the school year my goal was" By the end of of 3rd marking period I would accomplish writing in level 4 in my writing skill, passing all my classes at the end of 11th grade. And develop 90% annotating in my text''. I did passed all my classes but got a low passing score on my first marking period grade. For my third marking period i will work harder to bring my grade for my classes to 85 and above. My annotations so far in my english class have started off with a low 50%-60% to a high 70%-80%. A high GPA is what i want to focus on during my school year with a high GPA of 3.0 and up at most.For my 12th grade year i will put everything aside and focus on my school work. I will participate in Interships and do scholarship opportunites. I want to work on my overall my overall average to reach my college standards. For my school year I want to focus more on my  STEM science classes  to be able to better myself in that specific area. For college I want to study animal science and continue on my education towards Vet school as a veterinarian technician as my career goal.

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The goals that I had set for myself by the end of the second marking period was to develop my annotations by working hard in my class. I think I have achieved my goal to an extent. The reason that I think I haven't fully accomplished my goal is because I haven't developed my annotation skills up to my expectations, I have developed but not up to my own standards that I have set for myself. And the reason I think I have developed my annotations is because my annotations went up from 60-70% to 80.I have picked up some new skills along the way like listening, I use to start my work right after getting the instruction without looking at it's details and mess up my work. That bad "habit" of mine use to effect my grade significantly. But now that hardly happens to me unless I'm in some kind of rush. The goals for my last year classes is to increase my GPA and try to get above 90 in general. The areas I need to focus more on are my time management and organization, I'm late on my assignments more often and I happen lose my papers now and then.

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After finishing my first and second marking period i have enhanced my skills of explanation by giving more details and facts many times. I have been providing evidence in texts when ask and have been giving evidence from a text to world connection. This has help me better myself because i have not been only using explanation in ELA i have been using in other classes which help me understand things better. Explaination has help me become a better readr and a betteer writer

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have significantly improved since the last marking period in both Annotation and Comprehension. By the end of the second marking period, I will be able to develop my annotating by making a detailed analysis at least 90% of the time. That was my goal for the first semester and second semester, now that the school year is almost done I believe that I have completely achieved the goal that I have set for myself this is because I am now able to make college-level analysis of articles by using my annotation and, I show no signs of slowing down  when approaching 12th grade I feel that my academic goal should be to pass all my classes with a 90 and keep on track with my regents. I set this new Goal in order to get in the college of my dreams and to achieve my dream of becoming an engineer.

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have significantly improved since last marking period in both Annotation and Comprehension. By the end of the second marking period, I will be able to develop my annotating by making a detailed analysis at least 90% of the time.That was my goal for the first semester and second semester, now that the school year is almost done i believe    i show no signs of slowing down  when approaching 12th grade i feel like

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As I sit here and reminisce on the semester I’ve noticed that I have achieved my goal that I set for my self in the beginning of the semester . In the beginning of the semester the goal I set for my self was to improve my annotations. The reason I set that as my goal is because out of all my assignment grades my annotation assignments use to get the worst grade. I use to never get nothing higher than a 65% on my annotation assignments. Since I was getting low grades on my annotations I decided that I needed to improve my annotating skills. So that’s what I did ! I began practicing on my annotating , every assignment I got I annotated the text using the annotation rubric.The annotation rubric helped me improve on my annotations because i was able go back and make sure i had all the requirements needed to pass the annotation part of the annotating part of my assignment. As time went on I notice that my annotation grades increased from a 65% to a 92%. My goal have been accomplished,being able to annotate better helped me think about the deeper meanings or passages,articles and/or text that i received in English class. Another skill that annotating helped me with is being able to complete my cornell notes because i was able to incorporate the questions and notes to build my cornell notes. The same way my annotation grade increased, my cornell notes increased as well. Those are signs or improvement. An academic strength that I have now that i didn't have before is

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After finishing my first and second marking periods, I have improved in annotating texts using the Costa's Levels of Questioning. Before now, I'd simply underline and circle some lines and words, provide a few definitions and rarely used questions in my annotations. But now, I've gained a deeper understanding of how to analyze and dissect a text and began asking more questions from the Costa's Levels of Questioning. An academic strength I have now that I didn't have before is that I can further cite and explain supporting details in my responses. As I move on to the 12th grade, my academic goal is to focus more on organizing my work and improving my writing. My professional focus is to better my understanding of computer science by choosing an ideal college that has specific majors in that field so that I could become a successful computer engineer. I'm thinking ahead of high school to ensure that I'm setting myself on the right path in terms of college and career readiness.

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After finishing the first 2 marking periods of the final semester i can say that i have accomplish my goal for this class which was to develop my annotating skills, by underlining important details, and summarizing each paragraph of a text. I know i have accomplish this goal because on every text i had to annotate i went into very much details on underling important facts and taking notes about the text to make me understand it better. Every time i would get my grade back from my annotated texts my grade will be a 80% or higher. This shows that i have gotten better with annotating because before i never use to get such good grades before i would get 70's or 75's on my annotating. Now my new focus is to get better finding evidence. Finding evidence is important to me so i could always back up my arguments and thoughts. As i move into my 12th grade year my academic focus is to pass all my classes with high grades such as 85 or higher in all my classes. My professional focus will be deciding on what college i will be  attending and what i major will i be studying when i attend college. Clearly i have achieve my goal i set for myself and i expect to push myself harder and to do better.

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After finishing the first semester I have accomplished my goal. The goal I set for myself was to get better at annotation. I am now able to ask higher level questions. Also, I am able to make more notes in the margin. I need to focus on making more connections in my annotations. As I move into 12th grade year I will focus more on developing my argumentative skills and use more rhetorical appeals in my writing.

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after finishing the fist 2 marking periods of the final semester of my junior year i can conclude i haven't reached my goal completely. my goal was to improve on my annotation skills which i have iv'e gotten a higher score on my previous annotations than the one before i started using steps iv'e started using steps i haven't use before such as text to self and going in depth with my notes. a goal i haven't achieved was getting an 80 im my ela class. due to not handing in my work on time this is something im still trying to improve.one academic strength i have i didn't have before was understanding of the rhetorical appeals (ethos pathos logos).authors use these rhetorical appeals in there literature pieces to simplify the meaning of the main idea to increase credibility of the piece and also to evoke a personal response from the reader. what i need to focus on is using the rhetorical appeals in my writing to make it more stronger and more conveying to the reader.moving into my senior year my academic focus would be to get on track for graduation by making up any credits im missing

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After the first two marking periods of the second semester, I have reached my goal on improving on annotations and analyzing texts. In all my annotations I did this year, I added more questions in my annotations and went into more detail in annotating. I had more than 3-5 annotations per paragraph in the texts i did. This has made my writing easier because all the answers are right there. My goal for this marking period and moving forward is to get better at peer evaluation. I feel like that can get better. My goal for my Senior Year is to not be lazy and actually apply myself and finish out strong. I want to be in the high 80's and possibly hit the 90's average. professional, my focus is to use the skills that AVID has taught me to become a sports journalist. I think that my ELA teachers that I had from 9th grade to now have taught me a tremendously well. I would like to go to College that's why I want my Senior Year to be strong.

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To conclude my first and second marking period it is safe to say that I successfully accomplish my initial goal of annotating here in English class. According to the annotations I have been producing between the time periods of first marking period to second marking period my grades on annotating have increased from 75%-92% which indicated how much I have worked on making my annotations better. My improvement on my annotating skills didn't just improve my grade overall but it helped me understand the text that was assigned. For example “No Pain No Gain” was a tricky text because there were meanings within meanings. Annotating helped me think about the deeper meaning of a text , with the use of annotating I was able to bring out the messages the author was trying to convey to his readers. Moving along into the 3rd marking period my goal is work on making connections in my writing.The academic strengths that I have developed that I didn’t have before is being able to understand why authors use  rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos and logos). Authors use rhetorical appeals to influence an audience by making them feel certain emotions and to enhance the flow, clarity, style, and tone of one's writing. I mastered understanding why authors use this technique in writing. On the flip side, I still need to start using rhetorical appeals in my writing to make it stronger and more effective when it comes to illustrating my point in order to send clear message to my readers. Moving along to the 12th grade (final grade) my academic focus within literature is to learn how to analyze multitudes of texts and write clearly using several different writing styles. Mastering several different writing techniques will also help me refrain from the use of colloquiums when It comes to developing speaking skills. In college I will continue to the course of literature to help me critically analyze any text I encounter in the future. Career wise I would like to build my own clothing line, that is one of my career goals in the future as well as finding a career in computer engineering but before I focus on a career I wanna finish high school knowing I put forth my all and my best work to the best of my abilities.

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The goals I set for myself the first marking period for this class were unrealistic and have drastically changed over time. As I worked on my strengths and weaknesses, I was able to learn new skills to specify what I wanted to get done and how would I obtain that. My previous goal was to "be able to participate more in class and take part in class discussions." But I did not specify why I wanted to reach this goal (purpose) or how I would get it done. The academic strengths that I have now that I didn't have before is that I am better at doing my Cornell notes according to the rubric and I feel more prepared when it comes to annotating text and understanding textual evidence. This makes writing essays or reflections easier/simpler. I can also recognize and use ethos, pathos and logos to my advantage. By using emotions, credibility, and facts/statistics, I can make my responses and essays closer to a college level. For example, when we were analyzing advertisements and the social studies article on Thomas Paine ("No Pain No Gain"), we were able to identify rhetorical strategies that the author's used, that before might've not been very obvious. The area I still need to work on is my communication skills. Public speaking is not my forte at all, but if I practice a lot to the point where I feel comfortable, this will make me stronger in that area. I would be able to present my thoughts in a coherent manner and not stutter as much. This would help me in future jobs and obtain more opportunities. As I move on into the 12th grade, my academic focus would be graduating with a high average and being prepared for college. I would make the choice to go to college to accomplish what my mother didn't have the opportunity to do in her home country, and to become a professional with a high earning salary. This would lead me to live a successful life and be happy. 😊
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I have come to the conclusion that by the end of this marking period, i have accomplished the goal of getting better at analyzing the text and understanding hidden messages in the text and also at organizing the text better. I still need to focus on gathering more evidence for a writing piece and explaining each piece of evidence better. As i move into my 12th grade year, i will focus on improving my annotating skills and gathering more and better evidence for writing a better essay or writing piece. Also, for entering college, i want to be able to accomplish my goals of improving on my writing skills. Accomplishing this will help me in fields that require me read and write.

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After finishing two semesters, my strengths and weaknesses has changed. My original goal was to improve my annotating skills and I feel like I've done a great job of doing that because my grades are improving each marking period. I've grown during these past months on achieving other academic skills so my writing skills and ideas could develop more. One academic strength I gained that I never had before is the use of rhetorical appeals devices such as Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. This device is use to describe the character and using context clues to figure out who the character is based on his/her actions. As I move into 12th grade year, I will be able to accomplish more goals in improving my writting skills. Accomplishing this will help me later on in life because I want to become an accountant so my writing, and reading skills will help me to speak more professionally.

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So far of finishing the 1st and 2nd marking periods and approaching the last to close the semester my point of view in my strengths and weaknesses has changed.My academic goal initially for this class was by the end of the 1st semester i want to be able to straighten my describing skills by clearly describing someone's character in a text. I've grown during these past months on achieving that goal I've studied and learned how to tell the characteristics of a character in a text and learned how to quickly describe the character 90% like for example when annotating a passage i always describe the character in the text by stating how he acts or does based on the text. The academic strengths that i gained that i never had before was the use of rhetorical appeals devices such as Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to describe the character and using context clues to figure out who the character is and based on his actions.However, areas i need to focus on is using the rhetorical devices effectively into connecting it to the main characters in the text. As i move into 12th grade (final year), my academic focus is to graduate on honor roll for my 12th grade year with a high school diploma. My professional focus is to use my skills in computer engineering in college because i want to be successful in life as a computer engineer everything ive done from freshman year to now will be applied to be successful in society.And this is everything i worked my entire life for this moment in time to set a bright future for myself do something my parents have worked day and night to do for me and that is go to college become successful and live my life and live up to my name alexander malena and there's nothing getting in the way of my success towards life and prosperity.

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The goals I set for myself  By the end of the second marking period, I would be to develop my writing skill of elaboration by being specific with my inferences about the text & citing clear evidence from the text at least 90% of the time in a piece of writing.

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Reflecting on my goal from the beginning of the year, I have grown by being able to .describe events and characters in a story or article. An academic strength that i have that I didn't have before was to be able to describe many things in an article.  An area that I need to focus on would be to write a rhetorical essay and being able to use the right types of rhetoric.  As i move into my 12th grade year my academic focus would be to be able to graduate from this school with high grades and some college credits. My professional focus would be able to become an engineer and learn as much as i could about my career. I am going to college for my career in engineering and I'm hoping to learn as much as I can. I have made the choice to go to college because by going to college i can learn about my specific career so I can get a good job in the future.

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The Goals I set for this school year for the first marking period was to aim for a 90 average with the improvisation of persuasive skills. I had planned to improve my persuasive writing by reading books more often however I have failed in that area. I do have seen to improve my arguing skills in philosophical chairs,but I need to grow in breaking down the text and managing my time to hand in assignments on time in order to get the highest grade possible. Moving into 12th grade I will be more involved in after class activities in order to better understand the task.

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During these pass marking periods I have grown specifically in organizing textual evidence and understanding the passage. I've gotten better at citing supporting details to support my claim. Sometimes I annotate the passage to the best I can and that makes it easier for me to find my evidence. The goals I set for myself the first marking period for my English class have gotten much easier for me as time went by. As I enter 12th grade i want to become better at everything Including my annotations and I want to build up my confidence. I want to do anything possible so that I can get prepared for college.

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At the end of the first and second period,i have accomplish my short term goals on strengthening my weaknesses such as annotation and making more connections,but i still need to improve on participating more and building more effective argument.As i move into 12 grade,my academic focus is the get a better average than before,so i would be suitable for college.I made this choice because high school is about to end and i need to be prepare for future circumstances.

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The last semester is approaching and one academic strength I have now in this class that I improved on is annotating, my grade improved so much on my annotations. Now I want to focus more on finding and explaining evidence . As I move into my senior year, my academic focus is passing all my classes with 85% or higher and making sure all of my credits are good. Also I'd like to look into colleges to pursue my career. My professional focus is being a RN or Pediatrician. I made this choice because I find intrest in helping people.For example growing up I always help my father with his medications and his health.

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You have concluded the first two marking periods and you are approaching the last to close the semester. Reflect on the goal you set initially for this class: How have you grown, specifically? That is, what academic strengths do you have now that you didn't have before? What areas do you need to focus on more? As you move into the 12th grade (final year!) what would be your (a) academic focus, (b) professional focus? Or you thinking College or Career? Why have you made this choice? Provide specific reasoning for your statements. Upload a small-size image that reflects your FOCUS as you move toward the finish line for high school. Ps. Remember to write your name in your padlet post.
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Juan R - After concluding the first two marking periods I can say I have not changed my goal of learning how to effectively annotate. Although i still need some work i can say i have grown greatly and picked up many key skills on the way such as being able to identify rhetorical devices used by an author. Now going on to my senior year my goal will be to master annotating and applying rhetorical devices on a AP level. As far as my professional focus i still am not sure what I will do but i know for sure i will pursue some type of further education after high school. I know this for sure because education is the key to success and success is my goal.

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After the two first marking periods of my ELA AVID class I have completed my goal and have developed a new goal for the 3rd marking period. My goal before was to achieve 80% high on annotations/cornell notes and my average for this class, my new goal is to do better peer editing because it is an important skill need to give you and your peers feedback in order to do better in the work. The academic strengths that I have gain are writing better conclusion and annotations not only that but I have gain the knowledge on how to identify and use rhetorical devices such as Pathos(Emotions), Logos(Logic), and Ethos(Credibility) in my class work. The areas that will be my academic focus is peer editing and responding to other students work for the sake of giving the best feedback to my peers so the will understand what they did wrong, what they could of added, and what they should continue using. My Academic focus is to get a higher SAT score
, graduate and get to a good college, from there on my profession focus will be Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering Courses and then get a job around those Careers which I will actually will enjoy working in and live my life.

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After finishing two semesters, my point of view in my strengths and weaknesses has change. My original goal that I planned for these two marking periods was to cite textual evidence and elaboration. Since that goal has been made, I feel like I have mastered It and gained a couple more strengths. My academic strengths that I gained that I never had before , is the use of rhetorical appeals devices such as Ethos , Pathos, and Logos to get a persuasion out. However, I haven't full mastered the use of Rhetorical Devices in a essay, connecting the text, connecting yourself and etc. As I move forward into the 12th grade, I want to gain more strengths in literature, a higher level of insight. As i move into 12th grade, I would like to dig deeper on literature around society. I would like to gain insight then use toward entering the real world that would contribute to my career of working in the MTA.

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My goal for the end the marking period was to be able to accordingly annotate any text that i am given. I believe that i have successfully accomplished this. I believe that i have improved in knowing what exactly to annotate and also i believe that my connections have gotten better. I have also gotten better at using the 3 costa level questioning in my annotations. I believe that i have successfully accomplished my goal so there is nothing else for me to focus on regarding this topic.As i move into my last High School year i want to make focusing in doing my homework my new goal. I have made this decision because i noticed that sometimes when im home, its harder for me to concentrate on doing homework.