What are my goals for english this semester?

This year I have Mrs. Graciano as my english teacher this year, and what I would like out of this year's first semester in this class is to be better at constructing and writing essays. I would like help in vocabulary as with a bigger vocabulary you can describe and use better terminology for the appropriate field and object I'm talking about. However I would like to focus on essay writing as that is a ginormous part of the IB and I will try my hardest to get the best grades I can and will need more help with essay writing if I'm going to. The problems I've had with essay writing in my past has manly been spelling, messy handwriting and being to slow when writing. This has been solved by the fact I can use a computer now for my essay's.