Personal Narrative: My Year On Barrow High School

Improved Essays
As I look back into my year, I would say that it was a pretty interesting one. This is my last year in Barrow High School, and I think that I really need to just give it all and end this with an exclamation point! It’s almost Christmas break and the first semester is about to end as well. I think my grades are not that bad, I guess. I even still remember the first day of the school year, and I remember the first day during my fifth period class. I came into that class with seven other students. It’s a pretty small class. I sat on the second row, and the teacher was doing all those regular meeting introductions. I thought that the class was going to be easy because everybody was just relaxed and cool, until the teacher gave us assignments. We definitely had some real struggles because the class had problems with sharing to other people. I mean, we have to write a three hundred word journal everyday and share it with the class. Man, it was hard. As I go to school everyday, I started getting lazy and …show more content…
I felt like I got so tired when I didn’t even try doing the assignments yet. It was one of the struggles I had because my work wasn’t always on time, and it would always bring my grades down. Procrastination was not helpful at all. I remember having the Logical Fallacy chapter. It made me crazy. We worked on it for at least three weeks, and I still couldn’t get the fallacies even after the first week. This was definitely one of the highlights of the semester because it was just too much. I mean, we talked about it for a long time, and it made my brain hurt. Then the worst part was we had to take a test on it as well which I failed. To be honest, I really don’t have any reason how I can fail the test because we talked about it too much. After talking about it for how many weeks, I think that I should have mastered all the fallacies already, but I just slacked off and prioritized other things before my

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    When you were little have you ever did something you weren’t supposed to, and lied about it so you won't get in trouble. Many of us had, I was in the second grade and it was a Halloween special day. I was in school with my friends, Oscar, Gabriel, and Andrew. My second teacher was teaching us math that day. After that class we had lunch, we were all waiting to go to the event, our heart thumping like drums.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My years in high school were quite thrilling and adventurous. Starting as a freshman, I had no idea where I was going and what was going to be expected of me. Over the years I became involved with extracurricular activities which led to my primary interest I had developed in technology and the sciences. As a freshman I joined the Students with Future Interests in Technology Club, Spanish Club, and Robotics Club. These clubs stayed with me till I graduated high school and I have loved them ever since I got involved in them.…

    • 400 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I honestly did not believe that I was nor did I carry myself as a leader until I got to Wilson High School. In middle school, at church, and within the different programs I am a part I was given leadership positions and was “successful” in them but Wilson High School and its community have taught me what it truly means to be a successful leader. A large part of my high school career has been dedicated to the cheerleading program here at Wilson High School. This is the aspect of my life that has developed my leadership skills such as communication, patience, innovation, flexibility, planning and much more. My coaches, teachers, and teammates have all pushed me to become the leader that I am.…

    • 434 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    “You’re just a white girl trapped inside a black body,” were words I heard repeatedly as a child. For the longest time I considered those words a compliment. As an African American girl native to the Congo, I was naïve enough to think this statement meant how fully immersed with American culture my appearance, language, and every aspect of my personality was becoming. To me, those words held acceptance from my American friends and families—the only imaginable thing any foreign child yearns for. It hadn’t occurred to me that underneath that statement hid a message very twisted that would follow me for the next 12 years of my life.…

    • 1385 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The semester before my freshman year I applied to an early college high school; I knew that I was going to have more work than if I had went to the traditional high school, but I knew I could do it. At first I was doing well, but as time went on the work became more challenging and frequent eventually my grades fell and took my pride with it. I wanted to transfer to the traditional high school in my neighborhood, but changed my mind after a talk with one of my professors. She helped me to recognize that if I quit not only would I be throwing away the work that I did do, but I’d also be preventing myself from seeing what work I could do. I took that seed of information and turned it into a tree of motivation.…

    • 340 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I walked briskly on a summer morning on the sidewalk to my college campus, Yale! I had been accepted in the middle of my Canby high school days because of my excellent grades, leadership skills, and my confidence in speeches. One other person had been accepted in my grade at that time named Tanya, but rumor has it that her father works in the staff and influenced the principal's decision with some ‘green paper’. Ever since 5th grade, she has taken my ideas into her projects, wowing the teachers and getting perfect grades. One time in middle school I caught her fumbling through my locker searching through my binder to find my lab notes during lunch.…

    • 2111 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Last Year, Homestead High School, sometime around noon. I was faced with a challenge that left me questioning myself and what write. Let's start from the beginning; it was the time that Stanford blood drive would come to Homestead and collect blood. I as always wanted to escape math class and do something good, but mostly not do math. I proceeded to go and sign up; I was given a computer asking about my personal information, going through the questions I stopped.…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Coming into this class, I had no idea what rhetoric was let alone how to analyze it. Next thing I knew we had to complete a major project where we had to do just that. I had to change my…

    • 1036 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The end of the day comes whether you have gotten up to do something productive or if you have simply remained inanimate while time moves around you. I have found that the present slips away while you are worrying about the future. We are constantly telling ourselves that if we just get through this, then everything after will be better. We forget to appreciate the moment while constantly reaching for a hypothetically more fulfilling life. Once we graduate high school, or get through a challenging class, or finish a workout, everything after will get easier.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I have learned how to use neutral language, write complete thesis statements, how to put my own tone and voice in my writing, and how to critique my own paper. How to use neutral language was the most difficult skill to learn over the semester. “Standardized tests can be viewed by teachers, students, and parents, as helpful for the school system or detrimental to one’s academic future”. This opening sentence from my Informational Argumentative Essay is a perfect illustration of how my neutral language showed both sides of the argument but did not actually take a side. “Spiro Theodore Agnew used logos, pathos, and ethos to successfully get his point across to the millions of Americans listening to him that the news is giving out twisted information”.…

    • 761 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    It was just a normal day of school at Lennox high school. Attending my normal classes that day going off of the same schedule as always. As I approached my third block class I saw something that really caught my eye. Watching someone mosey from class to class with an awkward strut. I had a gut feeling something was not right at all.…

    • 243 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The discussion that we have in class was a huge help with showing different ways to angle the argument to fix for any crowd. Composition II has definitely a ride that was hard to keep up with but I definitely made it through giving nothing but my best to execute these assignments for these essays. All the information I have received has really open my eyes to what my flaws my writing. I was able to concur my mistakes and write out better papers. Which I can go out and write argumentative papers effectively.…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    After that, I started writing my introduction and body by using portions of the Exploratory and Position papers. I also went to the tutor in school to get more advice. I also found more sources to use in the rebuttal and the conclusion. After doing the first draft, I went to the tutor again. I totally took me one week to finish the final…

    • 1102 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I walked in the room and was immediately overwhelmed. Mostly packed with senior girls, I felt like I had been placed in the middle of a sisterhood. I was in my junior year and this being my first year of yearbook I felt intimidated. I did not know anything about yearbook and only knew a few of the people in the class. Little did I know, this would be an incredible experience that would teach me responsibility and devotion.…

    • 618 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I remember when I was in elementary school I was taught about figurative language such as similes and metaphors. A way my teacher made learning these figurative language devices was by giving us a chance to go up on the overhead projector. I was always as excited as a one year old baby who had just started walking to go up on the overhead. In fourth grade my teacher Ms. Davis always made sure that we all participated. Mostly everyone in the class enjoyed going up on the overhead projector.…

    • 838 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays