Informative Essay Examples for High School

Parsons then begins to give examples of why the old “instruction” method of the high school level had worked. Parsons states that “teacher makes you learn” because if not proven by “standardized tests” they are the ones “blamed.” In other words, students have been taught partial responsibility for the past four years. The “job” used to…

research/review on the CFTR protein (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Protein). After working for many hours with my peers researching and forming a poster, we presented our poster with our model protein at the conference as one of few high school student posters in the undergraduate hall. I had the privilege of observing researchers explain their findings, make connections with professors and other researchers.…

Sleep Hard, Work Hard: Schools Start To Early Remember when you had to wake up every morning at 6am so that you would be at work by 8. Well you 're not the only one. Most teens in America arrive school before 8:30 a.m. and that does not take into consideration the time it takes to wake up in the morning. On average, teens does not meet the recommended amount of sleep every night. Even though some people believe that teens should go to school early(before 8am), I strongly believe that teenagers…

from the public school system they are only qualified to take tests, more specifically speaking, standardized tests. In the image there are two men; one sitting behind a big desk reading a piece of paper and one on the other side sitting in a small chair with a huge pencil in his hand. Mike Keefe 2002, in the image the man behind the desk holding the piece of paper says to the skinny man sitting in the chair on the other side of the desk, “So, you were educated in the public school system- What…

people their jobs, the people working them are not fully educated and it will only increase inflation. When times get tough raising non high school graduates paycheck is not going to help anyone. “The people who earn minimum wage falls into two different categories: young workers, usually in school, and older workers who have left schools” (Sherk) High school kids don’t need to get paid that much unless they are…

huge step, public high school. I was homeschooled from 3rd to 10th grade because medically, it was my only option. Taking that step was the best choice I 've ever made. The one school that stood out to me was Minarets High School, this innovative school that prepares you for the real world, and works with you, for you. Everything about it was exactly what I wanted for high school. I excitedly told my friends and family about it, and was frequently reminded that, "high school isn 't like the…

School pushes us and makes us go through tremendous amounts of work. All through the school year we are constantly put through paper after paper and assignment after assignment. That is just what high school is though, it teaches us lessons we could not learn anywhere else. In Mr. McGee’s class especially pushes us because of his overload of work that we are given. Still his class prepares you for the next level of education in college. Throughout high school there have been three ways to…

Melina was determined to beat all odds and after graduating from Coachella Valley High School, not to mention ASB president and the top of her class. She initially became the first generation to attend and complete college in my family. Melina attended UCI and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Social Science and a minor in education. After graduating she started as the student assistant for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science at UC Irvine and moved up to being…

filled with both excitement and an overload of stress. While still attending high school and its workload, pile college applications and scholarships on top of all that. Most seniors feel ‘senioritis’ during their senior year and it getting past it becomes one of the hardest parts of senior year. We tend to forget that although we are so close to being done with high school, that we still have time and work left in high school that needs to be done. Evidently, a majority of the work that still…

give up. In my head, to be successful, I will have to have a good attitude and put in the effort twice as much. However, I am afraid of after all the effort I have put in, I could still fail; I had this mindset as far as I can remember. Since middle school, I would try to pass all my classes by doing the least amount of work. It eventually caught up to me and affects how I do my college assignments. In conclusion, While Berry and I both developed a growth mindset and had trouble with reading,…