A Good Year

of the young boy. This is seemingly the first time that he has ever experienced an interest in girls, and the narrator is reflecting on the time when he went first went walking with a girl in the cold December. At the time, the narrator was twelve years old, but I think that the poem is about his growth and the changes that all young children go through when they are first discovering love and romance. Even though the poem is set in the mid twentieth century, it is still relatable. Every adult…

Losing my boyfriend of three years my senior year of high school was probably the hardest time of my life. Although now it has turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to me. Going through tough times has gotten me to where I am now. Losing him was a blessing, losing my boyfriend made me grow up and decide to go to college. For the third time, I tried to fix our relationship and convince myself that everything was worth it. We had spent all four years of high school together…

In the first year, Fishbanks released three ships and the bidding price was up to $1450 per ship even when the profit of fishing in the deep sea was only around $500 per ship while the operating cost of fishing in the deep sea was around $225 per year. When our group realized how profitable ship auction was, we decided to sell three ships at $1000 per ship; however, other teams might…

Word Identification As suggested by the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 administrator’s manual 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…

looked around; I couldn’t believe my eyes she was her! We screamed when we made eye contact Mrs. Boone said “ I believe she found a friend’. I went and sat with her. She introduced me to Nemo, Jake, Jack,and Leon just to name 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…

Everyone always has a story of how they got from one place to another. Maybe it’s how they started one place and ended up in another. Sometimes it can be different circumstances. My life started changing when I got my first referral in sixth grade for fighting. Everything was smooth until the summer of 2010 when I was going into seventh grade. I and my friend Jeremy were mud bogging on my lawnmower and the tie rod broke, so we decided to leave it and get the lawnmower later on that day. Once we…

standardized t-score for the reading test administered during the spring term of 2000 when participants were enrolled in the first grade. Income is a categorical measure that indicates the range of total dollar amount a child’s household received in the year preceding the spring of 2002. Additionally, I created a new indicator variable for uniform policy engagement using the uniform variable which coded responses to the survey question, “Are third graders at this school required to wear…

Personal Background When I administered the Qualitative Reading Inventory-6, I chose to work with Elijah Tyler (nephew), a 5th grader at P.S. 194, The Raoul Wallenberg School. Elijah is 10 years old, he lives in Brooklyn, New York with his mother, father, older sister (16 years old) and little brother (6 months old). Elijah is very close with his siblings and cousins. He loves playing video games and playing with his cousins. He likes to watch the Disney and Nickelodeon channels and he likes to…

career in Atwood McDonald, which had lasted till third grade. For reasons like bullying I had left for another school. This place of education was titled East Fort worth Montessori Academy. There, they gave me a forth grade education similar to the years before. It was only till the fifth grade to where my A honor roll that I had always had changed to an AB honor roll. After Montessori I had moved to the current School that I am in now; Summit International Predatory. Here I had started my…

I consider myself to be a proud bibliophile. For as long I remember I have been a book lover. I always get excited at the thought of getting new books, reading them and showing how much I adore them. My love for reading comes from my mother. My mother was the first person who taught me how to read when I was just three. She introduced me to different children books, encouraging my love for reading. She often limits my TV hours, so I can read with her. I grow up witnessing my mother read…