Narrative Essay On Chisholm

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During the final weeks at Chisholm as a Seventh grader every hour that had writing had to write about events from that year for each letter of Chisholm. We had nine days to do so. Day one was the hardest to get started on because everyone would not stop talking. I had only had half of an Ipad screen filled with words. Most of everyone else had little to no typing. I sat there staring at the screen with lines of worry on my face about if I would get the project done. I hoped people would stop moving their mouths all the time during writing class.

Day two of the nine days was a little better. I still felt worried that I would rush. People still talked about as much, but the music was playing that day. The music got rid of most of everyone
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On day four it was Disney music. For me it was hard to focus on typing about the eight letters of Chisholm. Most people had at least four and a half stories done. I at least got two poorly written stories done in that day making my total four. Other people around me had time to use paperraater.com.

“You will get it done on time Hayden.” is what Mr. Hatch told me on the fifth day. I did not feel I could get it done. I during the fifth day I only managed a half for a story. Which I knew was going to put me be hide schedule. The next day was very slow it felt like trying run in chest deep water. During this day it was gloomy and the music was not the type I could work with. For days seven and eight I rushed the two and a half stories in one day. Those to quickly written stories got the worse grade because the grammar and spelling was terrible.

On the final day I had to put the book together and finish the other half of the story from day eight. I finished the story and had a total of about eleven minutes left of class. Copied all the stories into the book format on Ibook. I turned it in just as the bell rang. I got a poor grade on the book for grammar and spelling errors in every paragraph. I learned lesson that day and the lesson was life sometimes doesn’t give you enough

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