I have known Sun Jin Lee for five years as her Drama and Speech teacher in 8th grade and her US History and AP Environmental Science teacher in 11th grade. With less than 150 high school students at Mountainview, I am able to observe her in many different school environments including sports, lunch, school retreats, after school tutoring, class leadership and academics.
Using my twelve years of classroom teaching as a baseline, I can easily place Sun Jin in the top 1% of students I have taught. She earned her valedictorian status while taking difficult courses in a school that is already highly academIic. Sun Jin averaged 96% in my US History class, wrote multiple historical analysis essays that received a score of 100% and received a 4 in AP US History and AP US Government and Politics. In …show more content…
She has also been a High Honor Roll student since 7th grade. Her leadership skills enabled her to be appointed as Co-Editor-in-Chief of our school paper and quarterly news magazine in both 11th and 12th grade. Our news magazine is professionally published and distributed to our school community and hotels in our city. In 11th grade Sun Jin served as class representative and student body secretary as well as directing her class fundraisers throughout the entire school year. These positions required her to motivate her classmates to work in teams, develop student body policies, act a a liaison between staff and students while maintaining positive relationships with many unwilling participants. Sun Jin has a very healthy balance in her school activities which have included music, sport, leadership and academic competitions. She has played flute in the school orchestra while also playing for our varsity basketball team since 9th grade. She has also participated on our school Battle of the Books team which competes against other schools on knowledge of fiction and non-fiction literature. In addition to
Using my twelve years of classroom teaching as a baseline, I can easily place Sun Jin in the top 1% of students I have taught. She earned her valedictorian status while taking difficult courses in a school that is already highly academIic. Sun Jin averaged 96% in my US History class, wrote multiple historical analysis essays that received a score of 100% and received a 4 in AP US History and AP US Government and Politics. In …show more content…
She has also been a High Honor Roll student since 7th grade. Her leadership skills enabled her to be appointed as Co-Editor-in-Chief of our school paper and quarterly news magazine in both 11th and 12th grade. Our news magazine is professionally published and distributed to our school community and hotels in our city. In 11th grade Sun Jin served as class representative and student body secretary as well as directing her class fundraisers throughout the entire school year. These positions required her to motivate her classmates to work in teams, develop student body policies, act a a liaison between staff and students while maintaining positive relationships with many unwilling participants. Sun Jin has a very healthy balance in her school activities which have included music, sport, leadership and academic competitions. She has played flute in the school orchestra while also playing for our varsity basketball team since 9th grade. She has also participated on our school Battle of the Books team which competes against other schools on knowledge of fiction and non-fiction literature. In addition to