8th Grade Year Research Paper

My eighth grade year has been littered with moments of fun and joy and moments of confusion and sadness. Days where you wake up and think that it is going to be a great day but then one piece of news can make you sad or angry. Everybody’s eighth grade year has had these moments, some more severe and drastic than others. Everyone tends to either climb to the top or sink, for me, it has been in between. I started my year wanting to help my sister as much as I possibly could and I would end up not getting any of my school work done. Not only that was hindering my education, but also my father deciding that he wanted to go live in another woman’s house, claiming to only be renting a room there for free. With my father gone for the majority of the week and the only time I see him being the mornings, my brother has become more of a male role model than my own dad.

We live in an apartment in Moody River, so the “apartment buildings” were really just a small house on the bottom and another placed directly above it. The man who lives below us is the head of the association in our area, so he is constantly harassing us and trying to get us to either move or get evicted. All of this piled on top of one another significantly affected my family’s living style and negatively affected my grades in school. I was constantly getting “Z”s put in because I refused to do simple assignments and would instead help my sister with whatever she needs. Whether it be something as simple as a heating pad or if I must balance a cup of chocolate milk on my head and dance around the room to make her happy, I would always do it for