This year I have grown in persistence. Persistence is huge at my school. We use it to achieve our goals and never give up. We do this every day. We are taught the importance of this through projects. If you don’t display persistence you will miss deadlines because you couldn’t do something. I did this through LA journal entries. Some days in class we got prompts for journal entries that we would write about for ten minutes. I used to not write a lot because I wasn’t very good at it and I didn’t really like it. I was getting bad notebook grades so I used persistence to push through and improve my writing skills. I also use persistence at lacrosse practice because we have to run for long periods of time. At first it was hard for me but I kept trying and now it is easy.