Growth is like sports the more you practice the better you will get. In sports you make mistakes and learn from it just like in school, if you make a mistake you go back to your desk and see what you did wrong. Every time i make a mistake in football i turn around and do it again till i get it right. Through my junior year i have made plenty of mistakes but i have learned from every single one of them. The focus of this paper will be the growth i have had during my junior year in the three following eras: how my attitude has changed toward my grades and improving my work ethics, what I have learned in English III, and how the PARCC test has effective me and the whole school. This school year I have had my ups and downs. The first semester I really didn't care what my grades were, I just tried to make them passing so I could play football. Even then I still had F’s, but I didn’t care till it came to the end of the semester. I wanted to go out for wrestling. But then I started getting messages from colleges and letters saying that they've been looking at me and liked how I played. So then I told myself that I need to get my grades up and keep them up the rest of the year. By …show more content…
Shaggy’s class is probably the best English class I have had all my High School years. My Freshman and sophomore year I didn’t learn anything in my English classes. In Ms. Shaggy’s class i've learned so much like how to cite papers and how to use MLA format. She has taught me how to write an essay using MLA format. She taught us how to annotate papers and that helped me how to get my information for my essay. She basically taught us about shakespeare's entire life and we even read one of his most famous play Hamlet. Ms. Shaggy has put in so much effort to get us ready for the 12 grade English she also gave us some insight into what college English would be like. Ms. Shaggy is one of the best English teacher in this whole school and i'm so grateful to have her as a
This can help us to be more successful, teach us of challenging ourselves to reach new heights, never give up and motivate us to do more so to enhance our intelligence. Furthermore, having a growth attitude is not something conceptual or something no one but others can have. It’s an incredible inverse: there are particular things you can do each day to sustain a development attitude. In case I haven't made it clear enough already: skill is something you can cultivate, not merely something you're born with. You can become more creative, more intelligent, more athletic, more artistic, and more successful by focusing on the process, not the outcome. Instead of worrying about winning the championship, commit to the process of training like a champion. It's not about the result, it's about building the identity of the type of person who gets to enjoy those
Rose tells of his experiences in high school and prep school and later his college days. He contributes a lot of what he learned to his former friends and instructors. Rose spoke of a student Ken Harvey, when the instructor asked Ken his opinion about working hard, doing the best that you can do, talents and other things, Ken thought about it and replied “I just wanna be average.” (3) Rose talks about what different students do to survive in the system, what challenges they had and how some of them emerged victorious. He talks about his own deliverance from vocational education and how it started in his sophomore year with biology when “Brother Clint” (4) realized that he was getting good grades and discovered the mistake in Rose’s records and recommended College Prep. It seemed to send him into a different world. According to Rose college prep was an improvement over the vocational Education that he had just came from. He...
That year, coincidentally, was when I also decided to pursue a growth mindset. According to Dweck (2006), the author of Mindset, lying inside all of those with a growth mindset is a, “passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even when it’s not going well” (p. 9). Passion may sound nice, but it certainly does not guarantee success. English class, for better or for worst, was best summarized as a constant battle. A battle between me, my failure to produce decent content, and my grade. Every essay I wrote was deemed average or even below by my school’s standards; until the last, notorious essay of the year. Through endless hours of analysing the novel, asking for assistance from my teacher, and cut-throat revisions, I was able to achieve my highest grade in
English 102 demands my full attention as much as humanly possible. From the first day I walked into your classroom this semester, I knew I was going to be pushed to produce the work I know I am capable of generating. Although I felt English 102 was going to be a challenge, I felt I had a major advantage over the rest of the peers in our class. The advantage undoubtedly being that I had the same professor the foregoing semester. By choosing a professor whom I felt comfortable writing for, as well as an increased comfort level with your familiar teaching style and grading scheme, I felt I would have the easiest transition into your classroom. Instead of taking a different English 102 class with a new professor who would take half of the semester to learn my name, let alone my writing style, I was confident that you would be able to pick up on my weaknesses and help me exploit my strengths as a writer. For instance, last semester you helped me to spot my ongoing weaknesses in my writing style such excessive run-on sentences, proper grammar and the use of appropriate punctuation where necessary. I knew these weaknesses were going to be a challenge in that I saw them as “carryover” problems from year to year in my schooling. You also have helped me to realize what strengths I possess and, in turn, carryover from year to year as well. For instance, the confidence in my ability to summarize and synthesize material from varied sources as well as my ability to write creatively have all given me the self-assurance I need to write with meaning and purpose.
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
... to the United States, which made her really proud. Her rough teaching method actually left a positive impact on my life because I build a good habit of learning and using English, and also I feel so fortunate that I can get all of these supervision, criticism, encourage, and care from her.
As discussed in class, discourse is our communication. Furthermore, author James Paul Gee of “What is Literacy” defines discourse as an “identity kit” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). Gee includes discourse as a combination of one’s thinking, acting, and language that is associated to a group of others. There are different kinds of discourses; two discourses that will be discussed in this paper are primary and secondary. Primary discourse is the “oral mode developed in the primary process of enculturation” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). The primary discourse in this paper is the first-person experience I had in high school. Secondary discourse is “developed in association with and by having access to and practice with these secondary institutions” (Gee, “What is Literacy?”). School, work, and church are examples of secondary institutions. The secondary discourse in the paper is attending the University of Arkansas and writing this paper. According to Gee, “secondary discourse can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse…” (“What is Literacy?”). Throughout this process I wanted to know if high school is destined. Was my high school experience awful or is there a sociological reasoning behind the events? With that, I have researched the social construct and applied it to my previous experiences enabling me to truly discover if high school is destined.
Mrs. Plot, one of the hardest English teachers in Murray County High School, was my teacher that year. She was a very determined and driven teacher that did not tolerate her students to fail her class, even if they were lazy. I had heard horror stories from her former students, but she was nothing like they said she was. She was the only teacher that I have connected with all throughout school. I looked forward to her class every morning because she always made learning fun. Mrs. Plot gave out good advice about English, but she also gave me personal advice and was more of a friend to me. She always knew what to say to me when I had problems. She motivated me to do better with my writing; we went to a journalism class together every week that year. Mrs. Plot deepened my love for reading and writing. Without her, I would not be the kind of student I am today. On every assignment in her class, I got the most feedback and it helped me out a lot. It took me a long time to become a decent writer, but with her help she sped up the process. I put all of my effort in every single paper I have written, especially for her
It was the fourth year of my school carrier. In other words, the year of truth if I would make the cut to the higher education track. I was nervous because I knew that I would be capable of going this route, but I the feeling of concern was stronger because I haven’t had performed very well in my fourth year so far. At the end of the school year, I received the shocking news that I didn’t make the cut to go to the school which would have had allowed me to go to University later on in my life. I was sad, disappoint in myself, and lost self-esteem in my educational abilities. At this time, I was more embarrassed then able to realize the real benefit of a system which early on tracks children’s
As a conclusion, the grading reform had changed the school for the better. With the average ACT scores, number of students participating in the AP programs and advanced placements exams, as well as comprehensive reading exams passing rate rising, there was a remarkable increase in students’ academic achievements. The school’s focus on making a grading reform had resulted in a culture of learning at all
This class has been significantly more difficult than any other English class I have taken all throughout high school. This semester, I have been introduced to different styles of writing that I have never been exposed to before. This class has been stressful, but also fun. With using all of the resources I have been given throughout the semester, I have been able to do my best to further my writing abilities and hopefully only continue to grow them as I finish my later years in college. Throughout this essay, I will discuss my failures, my successes, my overall performance in the class, and my skill development skills.
Cecilia’s English teacher and mentor Ms. Shelton, introduced her to Ms. Abby. Ms. Abby held workshops and provided college counseling to students in the local community. She served as a valuable asset in Cecilia’s college application process, allowing her to accumulate cultural capital in much the same way as Miranda:
Growth and development is an ongoing process that begins at conception and continues through the remainder of our lives. The rate of development and growth varies dependent on many factors such as age and genetic disposition. There is a broad spectrum of physical and psychological changes that are part of the maturation and life of the individual. Growth is a physical change that can be weighed and measured. Development is a person’s behaviors and thinking patterns. Growth and development are processes that together make up the individual.
But I also think about how she challenged me. Most of all, I remember how she influenced me. To begin with, Mrs. Ladd gave us homework every night. Even if there was a holiday or a weekend, homework was assigned and due the following school day. She would collect it and grade it.
Modern-day high school students live in a society driven by quantitative values. Grading systems, test scores, and awards determine the success of our youth in today’s public education system. Millions of American scholars devote their lives to their studies, motivated