It was always the same, day in, day out. Maddie Jennings paced the floor of her room, running her hands through her already messy blonde hair. Goodwin school was the top school in District A, but that came with a lot of responsibilities. Maddie stopped pacing and reached for her notebook. It was open to a sketch of the local starbucks. It was better than the average professional artist could do, but the standards at Goodwin were so high that Maddie had received an F. She flipped to a new page, and began writing out her math homework. Long strings of numbers marched across the page, college level calculus. Downstairs, a hushed conversation was taking place. Milo, her twin brother, and Calvin, her brothers best friend, were Hatching an impossible plan. …show more content…
A map of The Magicians Cellar. The Magicians Cellar was a cave buried deep in the rock under the grid of roads and seas of concrete that made up District A. It was also the most dangerous place in A, with over 200 reported deaths and 400 mysterious disappearances in the past decade. Calvin and Milo’s friend, Jack, had gone missing 3 years ago, and long after the police had given up the search, the boys had refused to give up, tracking even the smallest of evidence like a dog following a scent. The cellar seemed the most obvious place, but since there had been no evidence pointing towards it, and A’s inhabitants never did anything illogical, and going somewhere that had no evidence leading to it was totally illogical, they had not yet searched it. Calvin grabbed the paper from Milo, and stuffed it into his Goodwin regulation backpack. It was black, with silver zippers. His name was written on the left strap, just like every other student in Goodwin. They raced into the street, and almost ran into the most important man in the world. Dr.
In the journal diary of Elizabeth Trist, she is a Quaker who is married at the age of twenty-three to a British officer, Nicholas Trist. Nicholas being the fifth son of his family couldn’t inherit his family’s estate, leaving him to join the military and leave Elizabeth and his child. The timing during this era was a bit hard for Trist, her child, and her husband since the start of the revolutionary war started in 1775. This news doesn’t sit well for Trist and her husband since he is British. Later Trist’s husband traveled to secure some land, and Trist stayed behind with her son since it was too dangerous to travel due to the Revolutionary War.
When the year started, Melinda did poorly in school. She often used stolen late passes and rarely did homework. By the end of the year this was much different. In the third marking period, Melinda says how she showed up to class every day throughout the semester, did some homework, and didn’t cheat on any tests. I see this as a vast improvement.
The school improved Jimmy’s abilities in these areas as well. In school, Jimmy uses the computers and the iPads, these software’s help with recognizing patterns and using verbal skills. Jimmy does not need a tablet at all times because he is verbal and can communicate basic needs and his opinions to people he is comfortable with. Jimmy is being faced with real life situations at the school he attends. The school is diverse; there are students of color and even females in his classroom. Jimmy’s family and the school make sure to stress to Jimmy that people do look different from one another, this is a precaution so Jimmy is not surprised or unexpected by diversity. Overall, Jimmy’s school does a good job in involving the parents and family members of the student. Jimmy also has an annual family day where last spring there were recreational activities such as dancing, playing tag, and a BBQ. The school does very well with having the family involved. At the school, Jimmy is taught office skills where he works in a print shop. Jimmy has learned how to organize files, how to use a stapler, how to cut things on the line, and how to laminate
The curtain rises in a small room in the Proctor household, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1693. There is an old man by the name of Hale Corey sitting at a small table, with a women named Elizabeth Proctor. There are two chairs a small window to the left of the table and a door that leads to the kitchen is on the right. It is ten minutes past noon and Elizabeth is crying softly.
"Not late...nice Isamu and Akane,"The teacher smiled.The clock dinged just as a male with white hair entered.He growled as he realized what just happened."Late,"The teacher sighed before writing onto a clipboard and pointing to a pair of numbers and words.Akane read the numbers quickly.Page 121 of book 3.The two friends searched for their books and Akane realized she left that particular book at home.The boy in a dark brownshirt smiled and passed his book to her happily.He had studied the subject last night like he was supposed to,unlike his friend had.
Have you ever blamed someone for something they never did? In the play written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible, Abigail Williams accuses many people of witchcraft which eventually leads to the death of twenty innocent people. Ever since she is caught dancing in the woods at the beginning of the play, Abigail and her friends have been trying to disguise their mistakes by blaming others for “being with the devil.” By the end of the play, Abigail is responsible for the death of many people because of the flaws she had which led her to make poor decisions. Abigail’s decisions lead her to put many lives in the town of Salem in jeopardy. Her flaws, consisting of selfishness, anger, and cowardice, ultimately lead to her downfall which results
...eral topic of school. The sister strives to graduate and go to school even though she is poor while her brother blames the school for him dropping out and not graduating. “I got out my social studies. Hot legs has this idea of a test every Wednesday” (118). This demonstrates that she is driven to study for class and get good grades while her brother tries to convince her that school is worth nothing and that there is no point in attending. “‘Why don’t you get out before they chuck you out. That’s all crap,’ he said, knocking the books across the floor. ‘You’ll only fail your exam and they don’t want failures, spoils their bloody numbers. They’ll ask you to leave, see if they don’t’” (118). The brother tries to convince his sister that school is not a necessity and that living the way he does, being a drop out living in a poverty stricken family is the best thing.
During slavery there was nothing, no law, to stop a white male from raping a slave woman that lived in his plantation. As a result of this a lot of slaves were raped with no one being able to do anything about it. The narratives of both Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley narrate how their slave owners abused them sexually. Jacobs was a house worker and her parents were also slaves, his father was part of the skilled workers group. Keckley was a house and field worker and her parents were also slave field workers. Both of them were daughters of slaves, owned by a rich white plantation owner and both were women. Now there was only one difference that Harriet Jacobs had a lighter skin complexion that Elizabeth.
I walked up the long, stone stairs of Hidden Oaks Middle School. Middle school students were walking up the stairs alongside me and talking with each other. I joined this math club because I wanted to fit in and make new friends. We opened the doors and walked through the long hall filled with posters and works of students. We walked into Mrs. Janasky’s room. I sat down next to my sister and talked with her. The teacher handed us a piece of paper covered in math problems.
It was the day of May 23. The flowers were blossoming and the birds were chirping. The trees were swaying in unison with the cool breeze. The kids were coming out of school, happy it was their last day, laughing and playing as their parents were talking. Most of the students were talking about the run and were wondering what they ran the mile in. Henry was not wondering, he was running home to drop off his backpack and start running.
High-School, and follows Ms. Gruwell, a new teacher, and her class: room 203. Her class, a seemingly troubled bunch, are all involved in different gangs that are based on ethnicity; this results in their poor academic grades and a lack of concern for schooling, as well as acts of violence amongst the students. By caring for the students’ well-being and implementing different and interactive exercises in the classroom, the students begin to work together and form a new social group within that classroom; one that accepts each other inside and outside of room 203.
Todd Anderson is a freshman here. His brother was a Valedictorian, and a recipient of the National Merit Scholarship. Todd’s parents expect him to be like his brother. Anderson’s roommate is Neil Perry. His father makes him drop the school annual in order to have more time for studying. On the first day of their classes, the two boys are exposed to orthodox uncreative and uninteresting teaching style. Math professor gives them homework "all 20 questions at the end of the first chapter are due tomorrow". Finally, they have English class. It is taught by a new teacher – Mr. John Keating which methods are very unusual from the traditional ones. In the first class, he takes the students out of the
susan decided to attend H B High School in brooklyn and is currently enjoying her third year there. She is known as a conscientious student who loves to have a great time. There she likes being in the same class as rachelle, for the first time since kindergarten. One may think that these circumstances would provoke competition between them, but susan is not affected by competition at all. On her days off she likes sleeping late, shopping, and spending time with friends. She also takes great pleasure in curling up in bed with a good book. susan is involved in various projects throughout the community and loves helping her family and friends in their times of need. She sleeps at her grandmother’s house during the week so as not to leave her grandmother alone.
Pamela details the story of a young, servant girl whose dearest possession, her virtue, faces peril from a somewhat anonymous assailant. The title character’s journey is related to the reader using the epistolary format, and each letter or journal entry slowly pulls the reader into the story as the reader forgets that Pamela is not writing directly to him/her. This format allows the protagonist to seem as if she is appealing directly to the reader as she pleads for help and begs for prayers. And so, this personal, emotional appeal, which does not usually appear in a traditional first person narrative, seems to speak to the reader. The epistolary format creates a more personal and complex narrative perspective that causes the reader to blur
When Jack’s parents called him into the living room that night while he was doing the dishes, he knew exactly what they wanted to speak with him about. Jack listened to their words for a few minutes, but he knew it wasn’t what he wanted to hear. He tried to tune them out and refused to believe what they were saying. After watching them talk for a few more minutes, he stormed upstairs to his room for the rest of the night. He’d been dreading this night for a few months now, and it had finally arrived; he now knew that he would not be attending Troy High School, the public school near his home where all of his friends were going, but instead would be taking classes at University of Detroit Jesuit High School, a private school located within the city limits of Detroit. Jack’s life as he knew it would never be the same.