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Well, this post might not go through because my last five posts haven't gone through either, so if you can read this, you're witnessing a miracle. How do I learn best? I learn the best when I have a little control over the way I learn, especially in Language Arts. Somehow I write better when I don't have to follow a prompt, and somehow I write much worse when I do. But that's the only thing. Comprehension I never really understood. We can read the books, and we can understand the books, so I don't see why we have to spend so much time memorizing ways to understand the book, like predictions and conclusions. I love reading, though, and I wouldn't mind doing book reports…as long as it's not ALL comprehension. Writing I can do, or I wouldn't have gotten this far…and you wouldn't be reading this post, would you? I'll do most kinds of writing well, but some types I have a hard time grasping. For instance, I can write fantasy but not science fiction. I guess you have to be interested in what you're writing about or it's useless to even try. What's the point of writing something that bores you? I never understood that. It's why I hate writing prompts.

Next year I don't expect much from my teacher.  I expect to learn, I guess, and I expect to get better at writing. I do expect a lot of work after hearing all the stories about high school, but feel free not to live up to that one. I'll do he work, of course, but still… I don't really know what to expect in high school, so I'm just not going to say anything that might put pressure on a teacher, because when I put a teacher under pressure it's just sort of akward. I'd rather say I expect less of the teacher and then show up and meet the teacher for real and then make all my expectations and predictions and everything else you're expecting to read here. So don't expect much from this.