Narrative Writing: 2G By: Caleb O’Connell When the last day of 1st grade came in May I was so excited with anticipation for 2nd grade because I knew that I wasn't going to be the only one there. All of my 1st-grade friends would come along with me to 2nd grade. I was just so excited for 2nd grade to come in the Fall. When I went to Back to School night to put my supplies in my desk. At first, I didn’t even notice my teacher in the classroom but on the way out she greeted us while we were leaving
Pronouncing some words like screen, street, string was difficult for me. I was in speech therapy until the third grade. All my life I hated to read aloud because of the way I pronounce some of my words. I also remember having allergies in the second grade and my doctor said I would grow out of it. However, I still suffer from allergies at the age of thirty-six. When I was in third grade my parents got a divorce and me, my mother, and brother moved back to Memphis, Tn. When my parents got divorced
Force Majeure The moment you turned eighteen, I received fourteen text messages. I swear, I could feel those words climbing down my throat, squeezing my heart and filling up my lungs. For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. I dropped my phone- and I was standing on the subway, heading downtown. An old man dressed in black to mourn his wife took a step back and shattered the screen into eight pieces. The noise shocked half the compartment into silence. I slumped down in an empty seat, next to a woman
filled to capacity with twenty-two portables, also known as "Portable City", necessary to accommodate over 1,500 children from grades Pre-K through Fifth, who attend our facility. The Nora Brandt West Wing, added less than a year ago, was named after our previous principal, who retired in the summer of 1997. Here we find the Kindergarten and Academic Excellence classes (grades 1-5), as well as our renowned "Media Center", one of the most beautiful in the country. Our current project, "The W.J. Bryan
John Steinbeck stated that “Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain, and if you don 't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.” (142). The first time a child really understands the concept of reading it becomes an introduction to a whole new world. When one thinks of literacy the first thing one thinks of is the ability to be able to read and write. But literacy is much more than that, to me literacy is the key to all forms
student in the second grade and I was struggling academically. My teacher was so nice and patient it made things a lot of better for me that year. Specifically, at the school I was attending at the time, the bilingual class was looked at very poorly for we had been known as the “Spanish” kids or “Mexican” kids. My bilingual class in second grade was taught in Spanish and English, but the years previously, we had taught strictly just Spanish in kinder and strictly just English in first grade.
Health curriculum in October 2007. Teachers from each grade level collaboratively distributed Pennsylvania state standards across grade levels to avoid duplication and provide a spiral for learning. For the most part, the Grade 3 curriculum was successfully aligned with the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety & Physical Education, as seen in the comparison chart in Appendix A. Three of the fourteen standards are missing from the Grade 3 curriculum, however upon further investigation, it
assigns three grades to thinkers based on their understanding of the world and their perceptions of truth. The truth in Goulding`s (2004) writings can, conveniently, be related to the truth in Plato`s work, as the end meaning and the thematic vision is similar in nature. Goulding argues that detachment from the popular perception of reality and the ability to create new ideas takes an individual to the grade-one level of thinking, while blindly following the norms would be an attribute of grade-three thinkers
For this assignment, I had the pleasure of working with the same student I worked with for the first assignment. My student is in second grade and I well be referring to her as J.R. While working with J.R., I assessed her using four different assessments and I really got to understand her as a learner. This assignment was different from the first assignment because I was able to dig deeper into her literacy knowledge and I was able to identify many of her strengths and areas of need. I feel like
Bzzzz! It was the start of the fourth quarter of the fifth-grade championship basketball game, and we had the lead. Thirty-eight to twenty-three. With only an eight-minute quarter ahead of us, we were confident that we had this game in the bag. By this time, we thought we were invincible, after all, we were undefeated, and we did a comfortable lead. But quickly, this confidence began to reveal itself in our play. We slowed down and lowered our intensity. The aggressiveness and relentlessness that
third grade years. My life has had its ups and downs but as you can tell I survived. These words on this paper are hopefully going to entertain you, but I understand if they don’t. Let’s see where should I begin? How about the beginning of kindergarten? My first day of school was probably the most horrifying day of my entire life. After my mom and grandma took hundreds of pictures I walked up to the bus stop where my friend Taylor Scott would be waiting. Taylor was on her way to first grade with
I still remember my second grade classroom. Not perfectly, but just enough that I can tell you about it. There was something that happened that was horrible, but lucky we figured it out before the real thing hit. You're about to find out what happened. There was tiny chairs, books filled with knowledge, and tiny faces eager to learn. Sitting on the soft rug while eating popcorn for snack, was so relaxing. Open a book, and it feels like the book shoots knowledge right a you, like it’s pulling you
have a certain amount of AR points by the end of the quarter. This carried on until I was in fifth grade. Once I got to fifth grade on the first day of school my teacher introduced the book Coraline to our class. It was her favorite book to read to fifth graders. Everyday she read a chapter to the class. I loved this time because I hadn 't had a teacher read out loud to the class since first grade. I remember the book being very interesting and a little weird. When it reached
Max Wilson Woodard Biography He was born in Palestine, Texas to the parentage of Clyde Burette Woodard and Marye Regina (McClung) Woodard at 9:45 AM at the Palestine Sanatarium. His parents lived in Elkhart, Texas where his father was the owner and operator of Woodard Cleaners and his mother, Bubbie, as he called her, was the owner and operator of a beauty shop. 1938-1941 His first dog was an English Shepard named Rex, who was a one man dog and his constant traveling companion. Beginning
In Patricia Polacco’s biography, Thank You Mr. Falker, It’s Called Dyslexia by Jennifer Moore, Tom’s Special Talent by Kate Gaynor, and The Alphabet War by Diane Burton Robb, dyslexia is presented in a visually appealing format in which children can understand. Children sometimes have difficulty understanding that just because someone thinks or learns differently than them, it doesn’t mean they are less intelligent. These books can be the inspiration that encourages a child with dyslexia not to give
brother play an online game called RuneScape and first learning how to type with him. He would teach me the arrangement of letters on the keyboard and how it was used. This was my first experience with instant messaging and I was only in the fourth grade. I communicated with friends on the video games and used my writing skills that I had learned in past years. I was shown internet communication which was different than academic writing. Spelling was not as important and abbreviations took over while
What influences have made me the person I am? It was a Tuesday afternoon and I was just getting to my psychology class and as usual I was chit chatting with my neighbors in class, Cpl Christie and Fausnight about the things that each of us did this weekend. Just when I had finished talking to Kara (Fausnight) about her weekend our psychology teacher Dr. Douglas walks in. As she is walking in I in my peppy self- personality ask how her weekend went. Dr. Douglas then proceeded to tell me that it was
sada Nicome Anthro 290 Final Paper Artist Statement In this artist statement I plan to address a borderland space in reference to neighborhoods, also known as redlining. I also plan to discuss the discrimination associated within these particular neighborhoods. A description of goals of the work that I produced and lastly what inspired me to specifically choose this borderland space. The borderland space I choose to discuss was Los Angeles
deal with one assignment. It is an issue I've experienced multiple times throughout high school and is most egregious in your class. This issue is the fact that different students are graded differently based on some arbitrary measure. When a teacher grades each student's assignment to a different standard, it devalues the work of the students. I experienced this most recently last year in AP US History. The tests we were given in that class have answers that are completely up for interpretation by
a $10,000 scholarship during my freshmen year. In my junior year, the pressures of life came rolling out like a storm thus contributing to my decline in my GPA. My fifty-seven year- old mom became hospitalized for 2 weeks during finals during the second part of the semester. She got into a bad accident on her job and she had to receive immediate surgery and had to get 9 plates in her ankle. This did so much damage to me emotionally. My mom always taught me to be strong and she is indeed a workaholic