Break

Working on winter break. What a torturous task to go through. While everyone is at home relaxing and spending time with family you’re working nonstop on your feet and watching the clock until you can leave. I sat down with my Dad and interviewed him about his high school experience. He went on and spoke about how he went to football games,6 flags, and work. Growing up in a lower income neighborhood defined him as a person and made him have a positive outlook on life despite the situation he was…

My spring break was one of the best ones I have had in a long time. This spring break I went to Tuscaloosa on Monday and walked around the University of Alabama. It was something I have always wanted to do it took us 1hour and 45 minutes to walk around the entire campus. During my tour I got to meet one of the football players number 22 Ryan Anderson. After the tour of Alabama we went to my cousin softball game and watched her play after our day we went back to the hotel ad sleep. The next day…

idea to shorten vacation time and go to school all year round with longer breaks. On the other hand, other people think that it is a bad idea to do this because students usually learn things out of school during summer break. The school year should not be lengthened because it stresses adolescents out, it will make them feel pressured, and it does not give them an opportunity to expand their horizons. Students need a break from school after their school year. They should not be forced to go all…

reflecting back to my younger self, I’ve learned that there is nothing fake about it. It actually does play a role in your everyday life. The causes are so many. For example, it can be the certain circumstances a person is in which could include breaks up, a close relative placing away or even disappointment. As a result, it can emotionally drain you; the hurt from circumstances stimulates the anterior cingulate cortex in your brain, and this part of your brain is usually stimulated by physical…

Geographic Inequity: How it fuses into intergenerational trauma. “The Break” by Katherena Vermette, illustrates how the rape of Emily, a teenager in Northern Winnipeg, is the byproduct of major issues embedded in the Indigenous community. A current issue in Canada is the limited access to mental health facilities in rural communities and the correlation it has to the display of intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities. Intergenerational trauma is demonstrated in the book by…

Imagine the anticipation of millions of students as they wait for the final bell to ring, the signal that announces the start of summer break…but it never comes. As “horrifying” as that sounds, that has been the norm for 10% of publicly-enrolled students, or about 3,000 schools residing in the United States according to the educational company, Niche on their statistical data about year-round schooling. This issue has been debated time after time and is widely loathed by many adolescents; most…

Brain Breaks In the fight to keep children focused in the classroom, two articles, one by Curriculum Review and the other by Michelle Gay, believe in two different brain break techniques. “Brain Breaks,” by Michelle Gay was published in 2009. Gay is currently a Seminar Leader for Landmark Worldwide. Curriculum Review is the author of “Yoga at School Helps Give Kids Brain Breaks and Reduces Stress.” They wrote this brief, but informational article in January 2017. Both authors support brain…

Take a Break on Summer Break Towards the conclusion of each school year students are pressed with the incoming reading and packets to complete over their summer vacation. The work that they are given sits in the back of each students’ mind as they prepare for their next year of schooling. When they should be enjoying their time off, they are stuck finishing books and math packets. On top of worrying about what their new grade will bring, students stress over completing their work in time for…

“Camryn,” said my mom “time to get up!” It was two days before Christmas break and I was really excited to get to school because I heard that our class was getting a new student. All I wanted was to make seventh grade a blast for her. I hop out of bed and get ready. Then I make my way downstairs to the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls. I finish my first golden brown cinnamon roll that had just melted away in my mouth from the frosting and went in for seconds. I look at the time and it’s…

A place in my hometown just around the corner there are two children, one of a little girl grasping information as much as she can and the second a little boy sleeping soundly. The little boy has a book with a plaque in the grasp of his hand facing the front of the statue. Meanwhile, the little girl is barefoot. Even when the blanket of white snow comes in every year they both were placed at the sight in 2012. It's a place I walk by where it used to only have flowers and a blank space to be…