How To Write A Narrative Essay About My First Day In High School

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The first day of junior year, the day that almost everyone always dreads. One of the most dreadful things I had to do was having to restart my sleeping cycle just so I could wake up in time to make it to school and having to wear an attire that is not suitable for early mornings. Ironing my bright white dressy shirt as well as my khaki pants just to fulfill my schools dress code requirements. When I received my schedule over the summer, my friends and I all tried to get the same classes and surprisingly I could only get most of my class with my best friend Oscar. We both had extremely easy schedules besides English last period every other day. I’ve heard many stories that were associated with this teacher about how she could be boring and make people want to fall asleep. This class was one of the hardest classes that I have taken during my high school career till this point. I’ve heard that it wasn’t as much as being difficult educational wise but instead being difficult as much as putting effort and time into …show more content…
Although junior year with Ms. Keenan, in room 205, was one of the best educational experience I’ve had. English was and still isn’t my strong suit. On the first day of her class I decided to sit all the way in the back with my best friend and completely ignore everything else that was going on in the class. While introducing herself to the class and telling her story about her life, Oscar and I were having a conversation about fantasy football and who were going to draft in the weeks coming soon. Surprisingly she pulled out stacks of book and hands them out to us. Once I seen that the book was Macbeth, I became completely agitated that she gave us a book the first day. I automatically threw it in my bag and concluded that I wasn’t going to read it instead I was going to use spark notes. That was one of the worst decision I could have ever made in high

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