It was the summer going into 9th grade and my little cousin Gianna had just turned one. The birthday party was Elmo themed and the big red monster was everywhere. It was a beautiful summer day for a back yard party. The tables were set up with red tablecloths and bright colored confetti. Each table also had a blow with a real gold fish it. But the best part about the party was the bounce house set way back in the yard, because no matter how old you are your never to old for a bounce house. But unfortunately
Traverse City. I went to Willow Hill Elementary School where my love for sports started. I started playing soccer in fifth grade when my friend Carrie invited me to one of her practices to see what it was like. They let me play with the team that day and I fell in love! I immediately signed up and joined the YMCA team. I continued to play for the YMCA until I was in the seventh grade and moved up to TBAYS. I joined a rec team with a couple of my friends who also played soccer. We practiced twice a week
From to beginning of Ninth grade to date I have grown in leaps and bounds in numerous areas of writing. At the beginning of Ninth grade I wrote similarly to a middle schooler, now, I have transitioned to writing as a high schooler. Some traits of a high school writer are sentence fluency, vocabulary, transitions, simple sentence starts, and a variety of words. Over the seven and a half months that I have been in high school, I have, most noticeably, improved my transitions, vocabulary, and writing
Considering my height, 5’10, most would assume that I played either basketball or volleyball. No one expected me to play tennis, and was surprised when I said that I did. During my elementary years, I played softball for seven years, and when I hit eighth grade, I decided to play tennis. My decision came about because of my sister. I had always followed closely in her footsteps because I looked up to her a lot, so when I saw she was playing; I wanted to try it out too. I had never really thought about what
to another person without having to put myself out there first. I was only in tenth grade, but until eighth grade I had been under the thumb of someone else. My first year free I had held so tightly to my other friend that I was pretty sure she was exhausted of me - I still am sure of this, but since starting college we aren 't around each other a lot - and now I had this guy that I 'd known kind of since sixth grade talking to me like a real
school, what a pivotal time in a person’s life. Jim Swarthow was a senior as average as any other of his time. He grew up in an average sized town in Tennessee, and attended a high school with the population of 1,200 students. As a student he made fair grades, yet never cracked a book when he left the doors of school heading home. School was not very important to Jim because his father had him helping the family business at a very young age. Although he never failed any courses in his school career, he
1. I encountered the most significant challenge when I moved to Canada in January, 2012. Before I came to Canada, my English grade was very good in China, thus, I thought living and studying in Canada would not be too difficult. However, I did not do well in the ESL evaluation at all, and I was placed in ESL 1 at my high school. Most of my classmates there spoke very little English, and they did not spend much time and effort on studying English. It was very difficult for me to study if I wanted
Each year I played my love for the sport grew more and more. I played on multiple teams throughout the summer. Playing with one of my teams I gained the advantage to visit Santé Fe, New Mexico two years in a row to play softball. When I reached 8th grade I was excited about playing for the high school softball team until I figured out how it really was. Although I was not happy about having to sit on the bench, but I understood that I had to earn the privilege to play, and that the upperclassman were
At the core of every great teacher there is a strategy for teaching, a plan to be followed. For those lucky few that naturally have the ability, and personality to promote learning, the plan to be followed comes almost instinctively; for other there are lesson plans. Now, the ideal lesson plan will provide step by step instructions for any teacher, no matter their experience or personality, to effectively teach a subject. Yet, much like theories in science, when put to the test, some will inevitably
I am not a mathematician. This deep dive into self-knowledge occurred when I received my first progress report for second semester Ninth Grade Algebra. To say that I was put into a space of shock and awe is an understatement; I was outraged. I was completing all my assignments and turning in homework, but my poor test grades were obliterating my grade. My other classmates were doing well in that class, but one thing distinguished me from them, they had a certified math teacher in the first semester
I was sitting in my ninth-grade earth space science class and a student was telling us about a time when he encountered racism. He was black and so was his friend but his friend’s girlfriend who was also with them was white. An older white gentleman, he described him as a senior citizen, the older gentlemen approached them. He grabbed the girl by her arm and said, “get away from him!” We were all taken aback, the student said that his friend’s girlfriend Hollard at the man that this is my boyfriend
If you were to talk to me today, you would never know that I was once the child who veered off the straight and narrow path. In those distant years of my past I was a problem child, with the notion that school was my playground. A failing grade use to mean that I was having fun in a prison with bleak white walls. When I was written up and sent to the principal’s office I knew that I would get to go home. But the cheerfulness that I felt, up until the point that my parents arrived, quickly vanished
Indian” by Sherman Alexie, contrasts Junior’s memory of climbing a giant pine tree next to Turtle Lake with Junior’s journey through his ninth grade year. Junior’s memory of tree-climbing reveals his perspective on the environment, the nature of his friendship with Rowdy, and his response to challenging opportunities, reflecting his journey through his 9th grade year. Junior’s memory of tree-climbing reveals his conflicting feelings of wanting to escape his broken down hometown yet appreciating his
school from third grade to ninth grade. I was and still am quite fond of learning.
grew up in a harsh area, in other words a “ghetto”. The books starts out when Ben is in fifth grade when he is failing all his classes because he couldn’t see anything without glasses that his family couldn’t afford. But after Ben got glasses he became the smartest student in all his classes. He was a very smart and good student until he reached the beginning of high school. When he entered the ninth grade year he began to be embarrassed of his social standing because people would “cap” on him and
Peer pressure is something that all people go through at some point or other in their lives. The Merriam Webster dictionary describes peer pressure as; “a feeling that you must do the same things as other people of your age and social group in order to be liked or respected by them” (Merriam Webster, 2014). Research has shown that it is natural that humans tend to follow certain fashions and base their opinions on the majority in certain situations (Gesellschaft, 2011). Peer pressure is a fundamental
understand and learn. As you teach others you learn about the different ways you handle situations and solve issues as well. I’ve always been the person that my classmates come up to for help, but it wasn’t till grade 10 until I officially started tutoring math, mainly Pre-Calculus 12. In grade 11, I continued tutoring, but this time I focused on a single individual, and that brought up challenges of creating a suitable relationship, that becomes the foundation for effective learning. This year, I
imagined I could. Today, writing is still a big influence but due to some mistakes I 'm not where I should be, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing.. I would not be where I am today with my reading and writing skills if it hadn 't have been for my 11th grade English teacher. I also wouldn 't have the interests that I have today because some of them branch off of what I 've written, or read about during my academic career. When I was little I lived in Nebraska and during this time they had this program
interested in being a peer leader? Why do you think you would make a good peer leader? I am interested in being a peer leader because when I look back on my ninth grade experience, I realize how much I’ve grown and learned and when I talk to other people in my grade we always end up relating on the same issues we had. Although the ninth grade experience may vary with each year, the students themselves can relate to one another but I can be there to help facilitate the conversation which I’ve had experience
System Reform Teachers have always used grades to measure the amount a student has learned. This practice is becoming ineffective. Many students have a wide range of grades, which show that grades may not show what a student really knows. Therefore, the standard grading system should be replaced. Some reasons why grades should be replaced are bad grades can hinder a child’s performance, grades define who a student is in the classroom, and grades are not an effective way to see if students have