Eleventh grade

Richard Rodriguez’s article, “The Achievement of Desire,” is a dynamic piece about many hardships Rodriguez faces while growing up in a working class family that is very different from him. Rodriguez’s parents worked as laborers, an occupation that made it very difficult to live off of. With this idea in mind, Rodriguez learned to push himself to the top of the class when it came to school. Rodriguez’s had a strong desire to learn, which led Rodriguez to learn at higher levels, foreign to the…

It seemed my siblings always had some sort of talent worth bragging on or a certain charm. All I had was another good report card. I was just another grade and with “you’re just a grade” always blaring in my mind my love for school began to diminish. I was embarrassed by the fact that I even wanted to go to school and I would painstakingly accept compliments on how I was doing so well. And somehow loving to learn became…

student’s grade and/or living arrangement (Acion et al., 2013). When looking at overall drinking rates across all grades, there was a 7-9% increase attributable to deployment (Acion et al., 2013). There was also a 5-8% increase attributable to deployment for binge drinking rates across all grades (Acion et al., 2013). In terms of marijuana usage rates, there was a 1.98% increase for sixth grade students, a 3.36% increase for eighth grade students, and a 4.65% increase for eleventh grade…

tired of breathing, I don’t get tired of music.” –Ray Charles. To me, music is a huge part of my life, just like breathing. Playing music is also a big part of me. I started playing music in the fifth grade, and give me the chance to do it again, I wouldn’t change a thing. At the end of my fourth grade year, high school students came to my elementary school and talked about band. At first, I didn’t care one ounce, but then they brought out their instruments and played a little bit. I was…

the media depicts him? Marilyn Manson, Brian Hugh Warner, was born in Canton, Ohio on January 5th of 1969. His parents, Barbara Jo and Hugh Warner, raised him Episcopalian. They sent him to Heritage Christian School and he went there until tenth grade. It is there where he got his hatred for Christianity and love of “the wrong things.” Manson’s…

Now moving onto eleventh grade history class, some students love history and some hate it but, one thing all high school students love is texting. This next idea takes phones, which are glued to almost every student’s hand, and turns them into something more beneficial to learning. Texting Story is an app that is used to create fake text messages between people and it creates a video of the texts being typed. These can be created by anyone who has the app, which is free. An activity using this…

Times are changing, and so are the English teacher’s choice of books to educate their students. English teachers all around are assigning grade school students novels that include profanity, racism, or sexuality. There’s no telling why they’ve started this, but it has its pros and cons. Some kids are mature for their age, but there are also kids who don’t act their age. It is acceptable to assign high schoolers novels that include controversial subjects. But on the other hand, elementary and…

White classmates move away while simultaneously seeing truckloads of minorities filling the space they left. I had no problem with this because I can speak to and feel comfortable with any person, regardless of ethnicity. It was not until my eleventh grade AP Psychology teacher, Mr. Surget, identified this phenomenon as white flight that I completely solved the puzzle. I did not think anything of it and still do not. But, as minorities, I thought the school would become a close-knit community…

grab it from her and stuff it into my backpack without so much as a peek. I did not need to look; I knew where my grades stood, and they were abominable at best. Most frightening, however, were not the grades themselves, but the fact that I had so trivial an emotional response. By this point in my high school career I had seemingly given up on myself entirely. I remember a passing grade being something worth celebration, and a failure being merely one added to an already long list. No matter…

This paper will be a summary about the service learning experience that I had the opportunity to have throughout the course of the semester. The classes that I observed are a ninth grade English Honors class, and an eleventh grade AP English class, at Cerritos High School. Even though the students from those two classes belong to different age ranges, both groups have shown to have about the same needs, and they are both formed (for the majority) of ESL learners. The difference between the two…