Personal Narrative: My Expectations Of Scott M. Brame Middle School

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My expectations in the past for math class, was for me to do my absolute best that I can.
In 5th grade, I was really good at math and I didn’t take the consideration of preparing for 6th grade at Scott M. Brame Middle School. When middle school had started, I expected for myself to do great because I believed I would. Though, there were times that I did struggle due to myself expecting for it to be easy. In the long run I managed to pass the 6th grade surprisingly.
In 7th grade, I expected for myself to do decent in my math class. Instead, I was somewhere in between the lies of decent and bad. I had expectations to pass the leap test considering I was decent at math. Entering 8th grade, my math teacher introduced our class to angles and measurements.

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