My junior year of high school was not one of the easiest years of my life. As a matter of fact, i think so far, it's been my hardest. Especially because of my AP English class. I had several other AP classes and honors classes, but this one seemed to be my greatest struggle. I am one of the very few people who enjoy and are actually great at mathematics. It is my favorite subject, closely followed by science. I always look forward to going to these classes. I also find an interest in government, which is why I currently take AP Government and politics. Back on the English track, I've never been much of a reader or writer, it's just something that I'm not very well at doing. Last year in AP English, I had a wonderful teacher who goes by the name of Mrs.Stagg. …show more content…
However, when I think of Mrs.Stagg, I see the perfect figure of a teacher, or at least the closest you'll ever get to perfect. She's headstrong and her way of teaching helps us learn and actually get our work accomplished. When I first started off the year in her class, it was tough. We would constantly receive papers to write and on a 9 point scale, I always ended up scoring around a 4. I tried to find ways to improve but it just wasn't working for me. Around half way through the year, I went up to her and I told her that I could not continue to take this course because I was not improving and having a C- was not helping out my GPA. That day that I went to her after school to tell her the news of me dropping, she looked at me and said “Do you really want to quit.” She was staring at me with a look of empathy in a way. I looked at her and I could not deny the truth from her. I told her that I didn't want to quit, but I didn't know what else to do. I sat with her and had a deep long conversation. Long story short, she told me to never give up, and that I'm not alone in
In high school, my AP English and Economics courses have been the most challenging, yet rewarding. The number of homework, classwork, and critical thinking honed my ability to focus and converted me
John Steinbeck and Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK Jr.) have both gone down in American literature as some of the most influential authors, but why? Steinbeck was an influential author throughout the 20th century with pieces in many genres. On the flip side is Martin Luther King, Jr., a civil rights leader in the fight against racial discrimination. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the style of these two authors, it is necessary to compare them on the bases of repetition, tone, and purpose.
Peter was my student of focus during observations. He is in a first grade class at the St. Eugene School in Yonkers, New York. Although I do not know the implications of Peter’s IEP due to confidentiality, the cooperating teacher did inform that Peter does have an IEP. After observing Peter’s classroom for almost three full days, I attempted to build an understanding of his performance and engagement in specific areas of reading and language arts. I observed Peter’s writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills.
After reviewing Maxwell’s five levels of influence I would classify myself as being in-between the production and people development levels, but I can also see small indications of being in the personhood level.
"To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like" Mike Gafka. Gafka’s quote summarizes my Junior year as I had to grew accustom to many difficulties, face many challenges, and struggles such as time management as well as how I decided to take three Ap classes during my Junior year. Which were Ap US History, Physics, and English not to mention having a Math 140 zero period class and a Network+ computer course outside of school which made me have a busy schedule. Nevertheless I learned and gain a lot of new knowledge throughout my Junior year.
The most important part of the grading process for the AP English exam that I learned about through this assignment is that the readers are not looking for perfection. Rather, they are grading the essays as drafts and looking for your understanding of the prompt. I also learned that even numbers are benchmarks, and odd numbers are a step up for the higher scores and a step down for the lower scores. I think this has helped me to understand how others will be grading my essays and what I can do to achieve a higher score.
During my early education, meaning elementary school and middle school, I was a very average student. I gave an average amount of effort to my grades, and I received above average results. This did not bother me, until the end of my 8th-grade year. At this point in the year, I was filling out what classes I desired to take the following year, my freshman year. I realized that from this point forward, I had to take my education much more serious, in order to get accepted to whichever college I desired. therefore, when planning my classes, I decided to challenge myself more than I ever have in the past, and take multiple honors courses. I assumed because of my grades, that I had what it took to be an honors-level student, but I was very wrong. One teacher, Mrs. Johnson, made me realize the kind of effort, time and energy needed to be devoted to my education.
Throughout this semester, I was able to learn many writing skill and was able to develop as a writer. When I found out that I was scheduled to be in English Composition I, I was very nervous as I have always felt that writing was one of the skills that I needed to improve on. Although I usually received good grades on my essays, I did not like writing them since it would always take me more than five hours to write a one page essay. If I wanted a good grade in English Composition I, I knew that I was definitely going to have to improve on my grammars. The main skills that we learned in this class were writing a clear thesis statement, paragraph structures, and sensory details. Through this class, I was able to attain more knowledge in these areas and gain confidence in my writing skills. The areas that I have improved on over the course of the semester are staying in the same tense, using
I’ve come to learn that is really crucial to have a notepad and writing utensil with me at all times. Sometimes I’m asked to do multiple tasks at a time and by writing them down I know I won’t forget information. Also, during my daily meetings, there are crucial dates and other important information that must be written down.
Which caused me to dread reading and writing even more than I already did because of the way she taught. She would use student’s papers for examples and make it clear who’s paper it was without showing the class the name on the paper. She would then proceed to make a mockery of that student saying things that alluded to calling students stupid. I did my best to avoid having to answer any questions from her, but one day she got me.
As I am in my junior year at Godinez, I have become a confident student that has the willing to enroll in some higher challenging classes, particularly in AP Chemistry, AP English Language, and AP United States History. I have applied to get three Advanced Placement classes in my junior year because I wanted to challenge myself. In taking three higher level college courses, I discovered that my weakness was in AP U.S. History because I was having trouble in remembering the specific historic events that have happened in a certain time period. I did not have the ability to remember all of the events that I have learned for a long period of time. However, the class that I am really in good strength with is AP Chemistry because I love to handle
The academic subject that highly inspires me is English, although this was not until my Junior year of High School. At first I did not enjoy English because I saw it as a repetitive course. Although, this took a rapid turn when I met my High School Junior teacher; Lorett Stagg, at first she came extremely strong due to the fact that she demanded copious assignments. This was extremely difficult for me because I was not used to completing that type of work. Stagg would demand our work to be perfect with high vocabulary and an extremely well comprehension of the topic. Therefore, my English class became my priority because I had to stay on top of everything; being present everyday, taking various notes, and carefully analyzing the text. Even
Since my freshman year I have tried really hard to keep my grades up. I didn't wait till my junior year to try my hardest in my classes like a majority of students do.. I gave it my all and tried being on the principal's honor roll every year. Last year my hard work paid off because I was on the superintendent's honor roll, which was a huge accomplishment for me. I have also prepared for college by taking multiple dual credit classes. Even though dual credit english is kicking my butt, I have learned so much from Mrs. Dale already. Before her class I did not know how properly write an essay, but I know that by the end of the year I will be able to. By taking her class it will prepare for my for my other college classes in the future.
Struggling is inevitable. In any aspect of life, especially during high school and teen years, challenges are constantly introduced. My personal experience with educational difficulty involves certain teaching methods and particular advanced classes. As an individual with the capability of successfully taking on more school work and challenges, I have taken every possible advanced class offered to me by my high school. This undertaking does not come without a fair amount of difficulty, however, none so difficult that I was unable to keep an exceptional grade average. Prior to taking College-level Chemistry, I had excelled in regular Chemistry. However, my high school had employed a new chemistry teacher whom I had hoped would enable me to learn
Sadly, my next school year was my worst ever. I had poor grades in all of my subjects and I did poorly in many subjects, but there was one class I didn’t mind struggling in it because it peaked my interest. English my junior year was my favorite class even if I did not do as well as I wished. I read books that interested me and I wrote essays on things I enjoyed writing about. While writing has never been a strong subject for me, I have always loved writing. I enjoy writing about things that interest me and that I have a passion for. Intro to composition has changed the way I think about writing, it allowed me to write about what I wanted while guiding me to write more intellectual and specific through constant revisions and one on one conferences with my