Eighth grade

younger sister, I looked up to her and wanted to be just like her. After I started to realize that she got praised for her good behavior and grades in school, I wanted to be commended as well. Though this did make me want to be a better student and did help me improve, it wasn’t a sudden change. What really changed my mindset about school was my second and third grade teacher, Sarah. She had been my teacher through my downfall and noticed how badly I was behaving. Once she sat down with me and…

thought of myself as a Christian because I always went to church, prayed, went to Sunday school, and said I loved Jesus. When I was in 1st grade, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. She survived, but this really scared me and I questioned why God would do something that bad to my mom. I went to Young Life family camp at Sharptop for the first time in 2nd grade and although I was really young, I saw what it was like to live like Jesus. I went to family camp for about 4 years, but at this…

first grade. My first-grade teacher was Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time. They would take turns reading the children a book. One day a teacher would read a book one Friday; the other teacher would read the next Friday and so on. I would…

goofed around and wasn’t trying my best to get good grades. The little effort showed when I got my progress reports. All my grades were below a C and I wasn’t very proud of myself and neither were my parents when I showed it to them. It was after this incident that I realized that good grades weren’t going to fall from the sky directly onto my hands, I had to earn them by working hard and trying my best. When my classes began, I had earned decent grades, mostly B’s, C’s, and a couple of D’s. As…

better grade. These downfalls often deprive me and other students from registering in rigorous courses, especially with an unweighted grading system. An unweighted grading system is a standard concept where the average of all class grades is based on a 4.0 scale (“Weighted”). No matter the difficulty of courses one takes, he cannot exceed a 4.0 GPA; all A’s are worth 4.0 points, and each letter grade decreases by one point to an F amounting to zero. The unweighted system focuses more on grades…

hoping next summer will come around fast. The first day of eighth grade. I walk into school and the sudden realization that I am the oldest in the school. Knowing nothing of what the year will have in store, I venture to my first class. The excitement rushes through my veins, a brand new year, lots to come but deep inside the fear of high school is prevalent. My knowledge of the High School is insignificant, but I recognize I must get good grades or my placement next year will not be the…

challenges I had to overcome in order to get the grade I desired. I embody as the NHS ideal because not only am I academically outstanding, I also love to be active in the community. National honor society is an elite organization of students that have excellent academic standing as well as service to their school and or community. I contain both of these attributes making me a perfect candidate for a position in NHS. I have never received a grade lower than an A in my entire academic history.…

thus lowering their test scores? The National Assessment of Educational Progress states that only twenty-six percent of students have more or the sufficient amount of math skills that is required by their grade level, and thirty-six percent of students can read at a level corresponding to their grade. According to research casualties of bullying perform at a lower level in school than students who do not experience bullying, and even when other factors…

extent for this kind of behavior because it in fact makes it hard on both students and instructors. However, students grades should be based on how they retain the information, not on their behavior. First off, students who partake in this kind of…

doing. Grades decide whether or not a student will pass a class and will graduate or fail the class resulting in staying another semester. With this hovering over students heads they want to know their grades as soon as possible. Getting the class their grades before technology was a very difficult task for teachers to accomplish. The teacher would have to grade the work, put it down on a piece of paper, and then complete it by doing some type of math to get the students weighted grade in the…