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To begin with this semester has been really challenging for me, more challenging than that of last semester, for several reasons. The weather for one, it is very hard to stay focused when t is nice and hot outside. I also felt like my classes were more challenging than last semester's. Most of my classes involved reading, my art of dance class especially. We didn't have a set text for this class, but the teacher handed out packets ofreading assignments from several different books that she had, with these readings we had to keep reading journals. In these journals we wrote about what we read and how we felt about what was said in the text. This is mostly where my Selecting Main Idea Skills came in handy. Before learning skills that would develop my SMI, it was very hard for me to elaborate on what I had just read, even if it was right after I had read the material. I would usually have to go back and find the answers to wha the questions