As I am sitting in the cold, frigid, choir room, I am focused on my choir director, Mr. DeBore, who is wearing khaki dress pants with a light blue dress shirt, and a blue and tan designed tie. Behind him is a bright green wall covered with posters of cheat-sheets with different subject matter we cover in class and see in our sheet music every day. As he begins to start warm ups, like we do every morning, a thought comes to his mind and as usual, he trails off to a totally different topic. It was getting close to ACTs and student testing; it was my freshman year, and I haven’t taken these tests before so I was freaking out, as I usually do about tests and I needed to do good on it. Mr. DeBore was giving us tips on how to do well on the tests
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Every day, I wish I was still there to get many more “lectures of wisdom,” as we called them. Throughout my high school career, he was one of the few teachers that took the extra time to find ways to help students and connect with them on more than just a student-teacher level. Unlike my other teachers, Mr. DeBore has helped me strengthen my literacy skills and helped with many struggles I had through my experiences at Joliet West more than I’ve been able to do on my own. He helped me realize how through my music, my brain could function more efficiently and help me stay focused when I was working on writing and even reading. Ever since I was a little girl I struggled with focusing on reading and writing but now I have a joy for it than I have ever before. Once I heard this lecture, I not only used it when I am taking tests but also when I write papers and sometimes …show more content…
As we were decorating the house, my sister and I were putting up ornaments onto the tree as my mom was organizing the lights out of the big, blue, plastic box with a grey piece of duct tape labeled “Lights.” There was evergreen tree sent in the air along with the Heffron Family Cheesecake cooking in the oven. We were listening to a new version of “Santa Baby” by the country artist Kelly Pickler. My sister and I spent more time singing and dancing to the song than decorating the tree. This part of the season is a major part of my life because it’s always happy. I’ve struggled with focus and concentrating problems throughout my life and music helps me stay focused through the day. Especially during finals week during the end of the semester, I have always studied with music because it helps and coming home to music around the house is keeps me focused and my mood stable. Thanks for getting that break from studying for my biology final, and dancing to music with my sister, it made me stop stressing about it. When I started studying again, it made me understand the concepts even better and the next day, I got a B on the
Every day, I wish I was still there to get many more “lectures of wisdom,” as we called them. Throughout my high school career, he was one of the few teachers that took the extra time to find ways to help students and connect with them on more than just a student-teacher level. Unlike my other teachers, Mr. DeBore has helped me strengthen my literacy skills and helped with many struggles I had through my experiences at Joliet West more than I’ve been able to do on my own. He helped me realize how through my music, my brain could function more efficiently and help me stay focused when I was working on writing and even reading. Ever since I was a little girl I struggled with focusing on reading and writing but now I have a joy for it than I have ever before. Once I heard this lecture, I not only used it when I am taking tests but also when I write papers and sometimes …show more content…
As we were decorating the house, my sister and I were putting up ornaments onto the tree as my mom was organizing the lights out of the big, blue, plastic box with a grey piece of duct tape labeled “Lights.” There was evergreen tree sent in the air along with the Heffron Family Cheesecake cooking in the oven. We were listening to a new version of “Santa Baby” by the country artist Kelly Pickler. My sister and I spent more time singing and dancing to the song than decorating the tree. This part of the season is a major part of my life because it’s always happy. I’ve struggled with focus and concentrating problems throughout my life and music helps me stay focused through the day. Especially during finals week during the end of the semester, I have always studied with music because it helps and coming home to music around the house is keeps me focused and my mood stable. Thanks for getting that break from studying for my biology final, and dancing to music with my sister, it made me stop stressing about it. When I started studying again, it made me understand the concepts even better and the next day, I got a B on the