Even the brightest students can sometimes find themselves academically underperforming, Often having no fault of their own. If you find yourself in this situation, it’s maybe because you’re stuck in a rut and is not sure what to do to improve. If this sounds like you, the first step is, to work out the reasons why you maybe underperforming, and the next step is, how to tackle the problem. Plan out, to help you achieve the grades you are capable of achieving. First Step – Reflect
Second Step – Set Goals
Write your English 8 First Quarter Reflection and Next Quarter Goals.
In your reflection, tell the story of what you did, what happened at home, what got in the way, and how it affected your grade, what grade you deserve and why? In other words, evaluate your efforts, attitude, behavior, and habits.
Goals for the next quarters – Discuss your plans, how you will change your habits, to achieve better grades. ​

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings