Shut Down Your Screen Week Essay

How to Effectively Foster Online Engagement Online classes, especially at the K-12 level, can be very overwhelming for students and can cause the student to shut down. This is something that no teacher wants his/her student to experience. A good online teacher is going to want to make sure that his/her student comes to class feeling confident about achieving his/her goals and knows that the teacher is there to support them throughout the entire process. In order to foster online engagement…

Starting now, conserve your resources and reduce your rations. At first sight of a Risen, take shelter. Conserve your ammunition. This is no battle. This is war, Mercy Shore, stand your ground. We must battle tactfully. Take safety precautions as directed. Best of luck, my fellow Mercy Shoreans. Stay among the living, die with grace. Britney peered up at the small, fuzzy screen, her eyes were wide with terror as she sighed with a heavy breath. She brought her nails down from…

computer screen on the laps of a girl sitting on her bed with her back against the wall. It’s 9PM on a Tuesday night, not just any Tuesday but the Tuesday before the Wednesday of her English assignment’s due date. She had been procrastinating, but tonight she’s going to try and finish it, not that she already started on it. She sighs loudly to express her stress, though ended up sounding more like a snoring pig crying for food. She has been sitting there just staring at her computer screen for…

doctor looks at me with a melancholy smile. “Why don’t you tell me about it?” I look down at the floor. One of the purple tiles is out of place, in the line of the blue tiles. “Wondering where to start?” I nod. My hair falls in front of my eyes, and I let it become a barrier between me and the doctor. “You don’t have to start at the beginning yet, maybe just talk about how you felt today.” I squeeze my eyes shut, and soft brown shapes and grey spots swim across my gaze. “Today I felt very…

little room. Bay’s house was actually pretty big but the rooms were tiny. She flopped down onto her miniature bed that hardly fit her anymore. The 5 foot 4 inch 18 year old still felt like a child laying in that bed. She pulled out her laptop and began to type. After a couple hours of writing, the sun started to set and Baliegh’s eyes became more and more drowsy. Soon, the computer screen was closed and her eyes fell shut. Baleigh awoke to the sound of an alarm. The weekend is all fun and…

stressing over the first couple weeks of college; being alone for the first time, having to be responsible for myself. I glanced around at the same old furniture; our two lofted beds, the TV against the far wall, and our black futon against the opposing wall. Beside the TV, were Daniel’s posters of Michael Jordan, Liam Neeson, and the Chainsmokers. Underneath his TV lay Daniel’s microwave which stated the time in its bold blue numbers, 8:20. “You slept through your alarm,…

EEERRR! The sound of my alarm wakes me from the beauty of slumber; I open my eyes and stare at the clock, 7:30, so school should be starting in about half an hour… “Shush” I whisper to the machine, “I don’t care,” rather than making the effort to shut off the annoying noise I just decide to lie there and wait. Sure enough after about a minute or two my twin sister Erica bursts into my room, “ERIC! GET UP! I AM NOT GOING TO BE LATE AGAIN! ESPECIALLY NOT TODAY!” she hits the off button on the…

that there’s someone waiting in my cell until I’m at the door. It’s Connor. He stands when I enter, asking if I’m okay. I wave him away, groaning as I climb up to my bunk. I lay down with my arms dangling off the bed. “You know better. I’m fine. I’m always fine,” I say. “You have blood on your clothes.” I hear him sit back down. “Did you hurt him?” I smile. I scoot forward, feeling in the open air under my bunk. He catches my hand and guides it to his head. I gently run my fingertips over his…

had come. After all these years being banned from entering home, the time had come. My dream was going to become true in 12 hours, which was a lot to wait for. But, because of an extraordinary exhaustion in my body, I fell to my bed and my eyelids shut. I kept dreaming about dangerous events occurring. My mind could not convince itself about Palestine being safe. Questions yelled in my brain with curiosity, the main one being: Are we going to survive…? As I was rolling in my dream, I…

making the best of it to cross it with little problems. Ever since freshman year of high school, I have noticed peers around me have different views on work ethic. Some students view hard work as an essential aspect of getting into the colleges of your choice. However, other peers have disagreed mentioning that most of this work will not even matter and it’s useless to work hard on assignments that will not matter in higher education. Even though pushing students to their limits in school could…