Eraser

As the year went on, Chloe fell more and more behind as she occupied her time playing with erasers and gazing out the window. The teacher was frustrated with Chloe’s unbreakable cycle and her inattentiveness, but did not have time to pay her individualized attention, as the rest of the class was progressing on task. One day, the teacher instructed…

Ways for parents to be more involved Many parents feel, if they involve themselves into the student’s academics, the student will be successful. The article “Don’t Help Your Kids with Their Homework” by Dana Goldstein is about parents' involvement in students' academics. The argument of the article is how parents can help students by making sure they have good materials but other things are not effective, like helping with homework, sitting in on classes, and going to parent teacher meetings.…

Day-Runner and Day-Timer. You can get computer-based planning calendars like The Journal from David RM software. All of the big box stores have a planner and calendar section where you can buy anything from a desktop calendar for daily notes or an eraser board for weekly planning. Always keep a hard copy of your calendar or planner, so that you have something to go back to in order to check your progress. At the end of the year, go through your notes and make a list of your accomplishments and…

Spring, the time that nature blooms and the snow melts away. The birds chirp loudly inviting the toasty sunshine into the world once more. In Sapporo, we cherish this weather the most as unlike Tokyo, we have harsh and unforgiving Winters. I don’t even remember the last time that I went to play in the snow because with that comes the responsibility of shoveling snow, cleaning up the snow on the bottom of your boots, snow snow snow I hate it. I do however like my normal life as a second-year…

Book Review - After TuPac and D Foster A large variety of different themes take place in the book “After Tupac and D Foster” by Jacqueline Woodson, a 2008 published literature fiction novel that experience the point of view from the lives of 3 pre-teen females from Brooklyn, and their obsession over rapping sensation, Tupac. Overall, the book has a very fast tempo. The Novel allows the readers to focus well and become easily engaged by the plot. My observation on the text is a positive…

me in the classroom. I could feel my breath getting heavier and heavier. I looked up and the teacher said “Everyone focus on your test paper or it will not be marked”, then proceeded to write my test. All the answers were written on my hand and my eraser. Two weeks earlier before this dreaded moment, I was locked up in my room playing the latest Call of Duty Black Ops game with my friends on my brand new Play Station 3. All of them were excited and I couldn’t wait to come home every day after…

The Musical catalyst Music has many influences on the human mind and body. Music can lower or raise your blood pressure and heart rate. Music can put thoughts and images in your mind and induce feelings and emotion. Your mood can also be altered according to the music you listen to. Although not all music has an effect on you most harmonics can . I think with the right parameters of songs, music could aid learning in numerable ways. First, there are many ways in which music can affect our…

As my favorite songs, like Leader of the Pack and the End of the World, woosh through my ears and into my brain, I automatically start singing along and can’t concentrate on my English Essay, that is due the next day. With great regret and a large sigh, I take my earbuds out of my ears and, like a good child, set them aside. If I listen to music while studying, reading, or taking a test I can not concentrate on the words on the page and instead focus on the words in the song that I am playing.…

Wednesday Wars It is important to have people in your life who you can rely on, look up to as mentors and help you develop as a person. In Gary.D Schmidt’s novel “The Wednesday Wars”, Holling Hoodhood is a seventh-grade student attending Camilla Junior High in Long Island during The Vietnam War. Holling has to stay in every Wednesday afternoon with the teacher who “hates [Holling’s] guts”(Schmidt 7), Mrs.Baker, but throughout the novel, Holling and Mrs.Baker develop a strong relationship and Mrs…

a thrift shop, they think that the clothes are lame. They made fun of Penn because more than likely he can't afford nice clothes from a nice store like Mike and Crash can. Once Penn took off his shoes, Crash “unscrewed the top, reached in with the eraser end of [his] pencil, scooped out the rest of the mustard, and painted the sneaker tongues and laces” (Spinelli 50). Crash decided that since he hadn’t done anything to Penn yet, he should ruin Penn’s shoes. Penn would have had to go all day…