events. These options in the aforementioned digital world do not belong in a school setting. According Mrs. Storaska (2013), a programming and computer science teacher, “Parents your students cannot engage in their classroom activities nor learn effectively (as much research indicates) when connected to their cell phone playing games, texting or socializing etc. even though I heartedly support technology in the schools. The students have been informed with great clarity on this lab policy!…
always forgets about assignments because of my tendency of leaving things for the last minute. When reading about these concepts, it was an eye opener because I never would have thought that high school students lack in one particular skill--time management. As a reader I thought, “What else can high school students lack in?” Which made me connect to my life as a highschool student, I can resonate because I change my plans in the day to hang out which ruins the point of organizing my day. “Time…
Bob Wager was the most renowned man in my high school, as well as the best teacher, at least to all of those who were fortunate enough to have him as an instructor. Bob Wager was my head football coach at James Martin High School. When he walked around it was almost most as if he had a golden glowing aura around him. His demeanor demanded greatness of those around him and he accepted nothing less. I remember watching him speak to my team and me as young 12-13 year old boys; I was filled with…
fear and dread in the hearts of high schoolers across the nation. The purpose of high school reading is to educate and inspire a love for reading. Students will be able to get more out of reading if they are excited about it, not just forced to do it. It is important to make sure that kids do not form a sour taste for reading because of a mandatory reading assignment. Novels need to be both entertaining and informative. A book that is required to be read in high school should be written at a…
motivation help Anaheim students to succeed? Motivation is something that would help Anaheim students to succeed. Having motivation for the students will help them have excellent and high grades in all their classes because they would do their homework constantly. It would also help these Anaheim students know that school is important and they to get up early so they won 't be late to class. Motivation will give the students energy and would keep them awake all the time during class. Therefore,…
I was never the outstanding reader of the class as a child but when you make it into a competition with a prize at the end who isn’t motivated to read? Grade school made reading fun and exciting and motivated you with competitions. When you move on to high school you see a giant decrease in that motivation as they pile the readings higher and restrict your reading choices to a slight list. As you progress to college there is absolutely no choice on readings and a very short time frame on when…
friendliness around the bar, but when Wesley Rush, the hottest boy in school came to talk to her, she knew something was up. Wesley called Bianca the duff of her friend group. He accused her of being the designated ugly fat friend, and Bianca was enraged by him coming up to her and saying that. The novel, The Duff, written by Kody Keplinger, is a novel about Bianca living in the shadows of her beautiful friends fighting to fit in with her high school peers. The Duff describes the issues of…
The social construct of youth and high school sports leads to unrealistic expectations on the athlete, parents should never push a child to participate more than they are comfortable because it can lead to depression, physical injury, and sports burnout. Many children starting from a young age are pushed by their parents to participate in sports. According to Shugart (2011), obesity is not as large as an epidemic as the media portrays to the public, and is in fact the latest obesity analysis…
nature of project (high school expansion). It also points out the location of the project, which is Shakopee. However, the location could be expressed with more details such as city or township. A possible alternative could be “Shakopee High School Expansion in City of Shakopee.” 1. The brief project description (with a length of 44 words) complies with 50-word limit. It provides the basic nature of the project, which is an expansion project on the existing Shakopee high school. It also provides…
movie is entertaining and humorous and any demographic can enjoy it. Mean Girls is a comedy film about a 16-year-old girl, Cady Heron, who moves from Africa to Illinois. Along with the move, Cady is also thrown into the wild halls of North Shore High School for the first time. Cady initially befriends her peers Damian and Janis, but soon, Cady somehow finds herself within the popular clique, also known as “the Plastics”. The leader of the Plastics, Regina George, is a self-absorbed brat who has…