Grade 8

Grade eight is going to be one of those special years, which I will most likely remember forever. During this year, I experienced so many different things and learned so much compared with any prior year. It is amazing that every year at school you feel that you have learned more than what you have learned in the past years in total since you started school. As an example, instead of doing a regular essay or something under that category for an English project, we got the option to make a video game, or the smallest book ever. While in grade eight you end up feeling so strong and so confident because you are the oldest in your middle school. But probably the best part of grade eight is the freedom. Instead of the usual, “Get to work and do it,” we get classes where we have the option to work on anything we want.

Before grade eight, whenever I heard that we are going to start a new project, I always thought that it would be something like a research project, presentation, essay, or report. I always thought that it’s going to end up being something that I have done before, and I already know what to do. However, now that I’ve gone through grade eight, I always wonder what is going to be different each time I do a project. It always ends up being a new experience.

When you entered middle school and you entered grade six, you were always so scared of the people in grade seven and eight. When you got to grade seven, you started to feel a little more confident, but you were always still a little shy. As soon as you hit grade eight though, your fear just vanished into thin air. You feel like you become the boss of everybody and that no one can really push you around.

In grade eight classes, you start to get the freedom to work on different subjects in some classes. For example, you might finish a science project early, and instead of the teacher just giving you more science work, he might let you work on a history project. I find this to be such an important improvement because this doesn’t require teachers just to keep giving you more homework.

Grade eight is one of those years that you will remember, because you will go through so many changes that are for the better. Although there might be a couple negative facts, such as the work being a little bit more difficult, all the positive facts will completely over-run them. So a message I would like to give out to any student coming into middle school or grade seven is that soon enough you will be able to be the oldest and most powerful in middle school.

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