One Day By Ms. Moreno Analysis

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.

I was beyond ashamed.

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

rules.

I like being respected by people and respect them too, which is the way I am.

Example: About two months ago, my aunt asked me If I could stay in her house with my grandfather because she and her family were going to an assembly for about 3 days and I replied to her saying that I could. In those 3 days, I did everything she told me to do when taking care of my grandfather, like washing the dishes, making breakfast for him, taking out the trash, etc. Although my grandfather wasn’t sick at all, he needed support from someone because he has problems in his lungs in which he can’t inhale oxygen by himself, that’s why he needs a breathing tube in his nose. My aunt was really grateful to see that I did her a favor and rewarded me 20 bucks after she came back with her family.

So I didn’t feel like myself when I did such thing. I was taught by my father that those who doesn’t care about their grades and what they do wrong are never going to be successful in life and that just stick to me as someone that I am now.

I learned from that day that I would never in my life try to cheat again because it was really embarrassing how people were laughing at me for getting caught cheating on that quiz, so I made sure I didn’t forget those days in which we were going to take a quiz again and study to be prepared for it.

When I do great in a class, I get very happy and proud of myself because I struggled to get a good grade on it. It also lets me know that I can improve in my other classes too. My Spanish teacher once assigned in Google Classroom a homework in which you annotate facts and opinions about an article that explained why English wasn’t the official language in the United States. And since it would get my grades up by doing that homework, I did it and finished it as quickly as possible. It was really great and satisfying to do that homework because now I have an excellent grade in Spanish class. For Instrumental Band, I was put as the teacher to teach my new classmates how to play the snare drum and the mallets, and it was something that it improved my grades. I was happy about myself seeing that I taught them how to play their new instrument right without any concerns, it was excellent.

After a few weeks later, I was at home, listening to my father talking to someone on his cell phone about a guy that had a great job and was paid very well in the living room. He talked about the things that he got like a very fancy-looking car, a mansion, a tennis court on the side, and numerous things that got my attention because later on, my father said that the guy worked really hard and got excellent grades in school to manage to get all of these accessories. I was inspired by those words my father said, which was to do good in school, and get a good career that would start as my aspiration.

In order for me to accomplish this goal, I will dedicate myself to do all of my homework. But first, I need to get ready before I start doing that, and that means to stop procrastinating because If I leave things at the last moment, my work won’t come out as good as I want it to be or I might not even finish it. Being persistent and perseverance is another thing that I need because it will help me work as hard as I can no matter how difficult the work is. I also need to have a positive mindset so that I can motivate myself and concentrate on the things that I must do. I’m very confident that I can do this because since I like drawing a lot, I’m able to draw some cool characters that I’ve never done before due to the fact that I never give up on my drawings. Even If they don’t look pleasing at all, I still keep working on them until I’m satisfied.

Same goes with playing the instruments for my band class. When I don’t know how to play a certain music piece my band teacher assigns to me, I like to practice by myself playing the snare drums or mallets in some parts of the music piece. If I don’t know how to play those parts, I ask for help from my teacher or just get a book and start reading the instructions on how to play that part correctly. Once I’m able to play it, I know that I was endeavoring to get the note or the beat from the music piece right.