Vietnam Essay Grade 12

My frequent trips to the eerily quiet school library started almost ten years ago, in my first grade class with Mrs. Yenser. Thick paperback novels, controversial science fiction, doomsday utopian societies, sappy romances, and even an educational biography every once in a while were some of my best friends throughout my elementary age. I flew through Tom Sawyer, the Alex Rider series, To Kill a Mockingbird, and several dozen other intriguing reads. Knowing I had become hooked on reading, many…

Week One I will be completing my observation at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, we are an inner city school that falls under title1 accommodations; meaning more that 90% of our students go for title 1 services. We also provide free lunch program for the entire school body. The majority of the students come from low income homes. The population of the school is of Hispanic descent, a big portion of the students being first generation Dominican. O.L.Q.M is an extremely warm environment for the…

disliking reading because he did not understand why it was important and he had a reading disability. Once Rodriguez finished his reading program he wanted to read as many books that he could. I can relate to Rodrigues because when I was in third grade I had troubles with reading, and because I had troubled reading I came to dislike reading. I later on in my life realized why reading is important. However I do not completely agree with the author. Rodriguez read certain books so that he would…

bold, so making friends with the other girls was not an issue for me. Some of the girls that I became friends with through coach pitch and first-sixth grade softball ended up being my teammates while playing basketball and softball all throughout high school. Up until I was in sixth grade, I…

school until 1st grade. If you’re like me, you can see a problem with this. “Early learning is extraordinarily important because we know that the sooner kids start learning, the better their chances of long-term academic success.” (Williams). There is so much learning that needs to take place at this age that when students do not attend kindergarten they fall behind and may never catch up to where they need to be. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are 12 states…

instructions, the first grade word list was administered, to determine the instructional reading level to establish a starting point on the reading assessment. The QRI-4 guideline suggested Addison begin reading the word lists at the first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted time, signifying she read the words at the independent level. When analyzing the second grade…

Derek is a 10 year old, third grade student, who will be entering the fourth grade next school year. Derek’s results from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification…

a few. We finished that year together like our friendship never missed a beat.The next big bridge was E.E. Smith Middle School. Sixth grade felt like a breeze minus the usual drama. I thought my whole middle school experience was going to be that way, little did I know I was moving back to Rose Hill. On the last day during lunch, Jake got in front of the sixth-grade class and announced I was moving and he did a speech. People myself included were crying I didn’t realize how many friendships I…

It went by fast. I was friends with everyone in my class and we all got along. While that didn’t change in fifth grade, other things did. My parents had been divorced since I was one years old, but I was starting to get old enough to understand. My parents were both remarried. I lived with my Dad and stepmom and I visited my Mom and step dad on weekends. While I got…

years old, and an identity that couldn’t even go to kindergarten. For this reason, I ask you to forgive me, for I have very few answers, and very little joy in remembering how I got here. One of the first times I realized I had an identity was 4th grade, when I told the girl who would become my best friend that my family was Wiccan, and she asked if we sacrificed goats. To be honest, I didn’t know how to respond to that, because to me the question was not “are animal…