May 21 2009
Advice To New 7th Graders
7th grade, of course, is going to be harder than 6th grade. There is more homework to be done in a limited amount of time and less free time to do other activities that appeals to your liking. At the beginning of the year, when I had just become a 7th grader, I always left my homework and projects until the last minute. Well, it worked, but not for long. As we got further into the year, there was a rapid increase of homework and the teachers always have high expectations on you to push you to be the best student you can be. And by doing it in a last minute rush does not bring out your best work at all, then resulting as a bad grade. When a big holiday like the winter break comes up, we’d get a lot more homework and exams to do. Then when you’re really happy that you’re going to be homework for the next couple of weeks of winter break, you’d still get “holiday homework” from some classes so that hopefully you don’t forget anything during the summer.
If I’ve known that in 7th grade you’d have to really understand what the concept of the math lesson was or what the meaning of the vocabulary word was, I’d be better off. In math class, if you don’t understand one unit and you let it pass, the next unit would be a lot harder than it would be if you clearly understood the last unit. What’s hard is that when you forget the formulas you learnt right before the test then you’re doomed. And also, if you mess up the formula then you’re doomed too. I never really understood what an adjective and a verb was so when they handed me my first vocabulary quiz, I almost failed. It was more than just writing the correct spelling down and matching up the definitions and vocabulary words correctly. Even though I know what an adjective and a verb is now, the vocabulary quizzes are still a major challenge for me because they just keep getting harder. But it’s my fault too because I’m not doing such a good job on my behalf as well because I usually do other homework like math worksheets, modern language homework, humanities homework, and projects from the classes before studying my definitions for the vocabulary quiz. And after a few days I forget that the vocabulary quiz is coming up so then I get horrible grades on it.
At the beginning of the year, I used up my freetimes playing games and other useless but fun stuff instead of doing homework that was due on the day after tomorrow and so forth. In the end, I’d have to stay up until around 2:00 am finishing last minute homework due in a couple of hours. Although, this sounds really cheesy but now I’ve learnt to do my homework beforehand so when I actually have freetime, I can do better things to my liking. The teacher’s expectations will increase as well from the start of the year until the end of the semester. 7th grade is going to be a great year with some obstacles (like homework, projects, exams, and etc) and loads of fun! Good luck in 7th grade!
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