One Day By Ms. Moreno Analysis

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I will always remember that zero that my old English teacher, Ms. Moreno, gave me and the laughs of my classmates at me. It was exactly four years when this happened, being an 8th grader. I remember what my teacher said to our class that day, “Guys, we will have a quiz on this tomorrow”, referring to the book we were reading the past few weeks. I wasn’t really in the mood to take that quiz because I didn’t want to review the previous chapters from the book again in order to remember some important plots from there. I was also tired after a restless sleep, meaning that it made it hard for me to concentrate on one thing that required patience and careful reading. The next day, I wasn’t ready at all. I felt the nervousness right at my chest as soon as my teacher gave me the quiz, and our class only had 30 minutes to complete it. Carefully, I decided to use my phone secretly to find all the answers that I could to finish the quiz immediately, but that didn’t happen. I managed to look up two answers before Ms. Moreno noticed me using my phone. She then took my phone and my quiz and said, “You have a zero now”, as she walked towards her desktop. That was a big failure for me that day, and all of my classmates started laughing at me and asking why I did it. I turned red with embarrassment and knew it was because I didn’t study. The next day Ms. Moreno announced that everyone had passed the quiz - except for me. …show more content…

Some people don’t care about this type of situation and ignore it, but I am different, I do care. I’m the type of person who tries to do everything fairly and play by the

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