Ninth grade

brother to Chelsea Sherman. I was in Macon, Georgia at The Medical Center of Central Georgia at 4:20am on December 20, 1996. I was also grow up in Macon, Georgia and I attend elementary school at Rosa Taylor elementary school from Kindergarten to fifth grade. At Rosa Taylor is where I learned to play chess and after a couple of year I was good enough to try out for Macon chess club. The first two times I tried out I didn’t make the team because I would always make it to the last eight games and…

Starting off I went to church to go to Royal Rangers, but I didn’t see much past that. Going to Royal Rangers built the foundation of what my relationship with God would be today, but it wasn’t until about ninth grade that I would actually begin to take my relationship with God seriously. In ninth grade, just like every other high schooler, I began to look for a way to get community service hours and I thought of doing kids ministry. By volunteering with kids ministry, I began to build a…

want to be and a view of who truly had my back. Two years into high school, I had to learn to trust myself above anyone else. Coming from middle school to the ninth grade took a toll on my academics. I was not use to studying and paying attention to my teachers, so I had a huge adjustment. I received my first “C” in Biology my ninth grade year. Once I got adjusted into the flow of things in high school, I started to realize the freedoms I had been given. Adults in my home and church trusted me…

help me improve my baseball skills. Trey made a huge impact on me, he has been a huge part of my life ever since then. In third grade Trey was my small group leader at the Orchard Community Church. He was also my small group leader when I was in fourth grade at the Orchard Community Church. I was stoked to have Trey as my group leader in third grade as well as in fourth grade. When i became a fifth grader I was put into…

There I was on June 10, 2013 sitting in an auditorium filled with proud parents, uncles, aunts, siblings, teachers, and most importantly students. Today was the day I was promoted to the ninth grade and could consider myself a freshman in high school. Nothing felt better than knowing that I was making others proud, but then I stopped and thought about what was ahead because I knew I was not done yet. Being congratulated by my mother, siblings, and grandparents meant a lot to me because…

of Incoming High School Families. As students transition to high school, they often experience increased independence from their parents and families (Neild, 2009). Social concerns include “peer conformity” which “peak[s] at ninth grade” (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006, p. 16). Ninth graders exhibit an elevated sense of self and need for peer acceptance, along with physical and hormonal changes(Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006). The larger school environment may have many students feeling alienated and…

The Great Divine is a newspaper article that focuses on inequality, the newspaper published an article called, “Stop holding us back” by Robert Balfanz. This article focuses on the fact that “one-third of the nation’s African-American and Latino young men will not graduate”. (Balfanz). The article reveals that back in 2014 the total of high school graduates was more than three million students. In the article Robert Balfanz conducted a study with one of his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University…

middle school and about to attend your first year of high school as a freshman, there are some things you need to know before going to the major classes. One thing is that ninth grade is sort of like eighth grade, but as the year progresses there are different concepts that are new to you. Don't worry, you're not the only one; other ninth graders are confused with this too, so you should probably ask. Another thing is that you must be prepared at all times when you walk into a classroom and,…

students than I do now. Going to college will allow me to fulfill my dream of becoming a teacher and helping kids grow through the power of music. Since ninth grade, I have been voluntarily assisting with the beginning, intermediate, and advanced orchestras at Luther Memorial School (LMS). I have been teaching some of these students since ninth grade, and now, I am watching one of them, an eighth grader, move on. The feeling of watching the students grow, both skillfully and personally, and then…

The last few years it has been really tough. Very candidly, we have been, and please don’t write this, actively discouraging people from applying. We recognize that we have too many charters, we don’t have enough talent to power it and the easiest way of controlling the quality of the schools in the pipeline. Most of the people were scared off and last we had only two applicants that were absolutely terrible. Interviewer: You can really see it in the application. Interviewee: Anyone who is…