Essay About Senior High School

shaped my life today. I have an outstanding family and great friends. However, my older sister, Jacqueline, has played a major role in influencing me and changing who I am today. Jacqueline is 7 years older than me. She attended Plano West Senior High School, and she was on the volleyball team for 4 years. Additionally, she was a magnificent defensive player for club volleyball too. At a young age, I would attend her endless camps, games, tournaments, clinics, and private lessons. However,…

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino, a freshman in high school, undergoes development that changes her as a person. In the beginning of the book, Melinda is scared and unsteady because a senior named Andy Evans raped her at a senior party over the summer. As additional time passes, her confidence and health worsen, eventually resulting in self-harm. When as she begins to receive the attention she deserves, she starts the healing process. Melinda’s development near the…

On May 27, 2015, I at last finished a four year in the making milestone in my life; high school. Walking upon the center stage, hearing your name being called and receiving your diploma while shaking the hands of the many faces you either grew to love or despise is a memory forever engraved into graduate’s minds. That diploma that took blood, sweat and tears to finally obtain may have been, for many seniors, their most cherished possession to date; except for me. I would see much of my friends…

As a senior in high school, Sumaiya Sathar is a high achieving student interested in the sciences, especially chemistry and biology. A student at Redmond High School and a Running start student at Bellevue College, Sumaiya has taken advanced classes in Biology and Physics along with college and university level courses in Marketing, Computer Science, Chemistry, Mathematics and Health. Sumaiya is also a member of the BC Helping Hands Club, Muslim Students Association at Bellevue College and the…

were in high school? It was more than likely a class period over an hour long. In the past, the classes with more time helped the students and teachers by having the time to make the content well informed. Today at Wayne County High School we only have 55-minute class periods. This probably doesn’t seem like much of a problem to a lot of students, but in my opinion it is a problem. Wayne County High School has seven class periods a day unless the student has a job and can co-op. High school…

track and field as well but being a public school with low program budgets I was worried that our dreams would remain dreams” said Kevin Ferreira, one of the school’s top varsity cross country boys. According to the group of trying out outdoor athletes they describe it as a “very anxious moment”. On January 28, 2016 superintendent of Essex County Vocational Technical Schools, Dr. James Pedersen, stood up from his office and came to North 13th Street School to address the student's request. “I…

Stanwood High School, the place I want to leave so badly but has taught me so much. I never thought senior year would be fast approaching and I would soon hear my name being called over the loud speaker to grasp the paper that we all work so hard for. There are many monsters I have battled through the course of high school, some I have walked away with a victory and others I have been defeated. I have lost all motivation in the last weeks of my senior year, while one day feels like one year.…

You had all these plans about how to spend summer vacation but all you do is catch up on those 12 weeks of sleep you missed while in school. Once in awhile you get a text asking if you would like to hang out. Hanging out in a high school sense means people vomiting alcohol everywhere, a bunch of fake people standing around staring at you as you walk in, and one quick call to the cops to test how fast of a runner everyone is. (Something…

When a high school senior graduates from high school, they are left with many options. Many graduates choose to go to college to earn themselves a degree, while others decide to go straight into the workforce. There are plenty of reasons why college should be a choice. While that is acceptable for some, others go on to earn a degree. On average college graduates earn considerably more money than those with just a high school education. Earning a college degree opens up many more avenues than…

results of these assessments are then gathered, and analyzed in combination with the state mandated standardized test, finally giving us data that is vital to the building of curriculum and units used in the classroom. At Washington-Marion Magnet High School, where I currently teach, the data is an important factor in developing student schedules and in several ways other, depending on the grade level of the student. Students RTI classroom and other intervention programs are assigned based…