Pencil sharpener

While reading “Watcher at the Gate” I realized that every writer has a watcher, even those who have an occupation in writing. Something that makes them question the worth of their work and belittles their confidence. While reading “notorious pencil sharpeners, ribbon changers, plant waterers...They’d rather die than risk making a fool of themselves” I realized that there are many things a watcher will do to make ones literature seem like less than perfection for the sake of not falling into…

The scent of sandy colored pencil shavings and crystal-clear, alcohol based hand sanitizer pervaded the room, and my ears were permeated with the sounds of laughing children, the grinding of a pencil sharpener, and the bustle of any fifth grade classroom. The teacher, Ms. Roberts, was handing back the MCT2 test scores from the previous year, which was fourth grade, and I absolutely could not wait to see mine. I shook in my chair with anticipation, anxiously awaiting the scores. “Jordan…

Some ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils are packaged like fountain pens—relatively large boxes akin to jewelry boxes—while PITT pens and wooden pencils as sold individually or in groups. These variations serve different levels of practicality and showmanship. The jewelry-like packaging of fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and mechanical pencils create an air of class around the item. Typically, this style of packaging is referred to as gift…

always found myself adding excess layers of paint onto one another in order to create the perfect combination, while simultaneously creating rips in the canvas from overworking one spot. I have always favored the easier way out of art, and sticking to pencils and erasers. It was my sophomore year of highschool when I…

The Move I have moved six times in the course of my seventeen years of living. Moving is fun getting to discover new places and meeting new people, but moving can also be very difficult having to leave close friends that you have grown very close to over the years. The toughest move yet has been from Nashville Tennessee to Birmingham Alabama. I had lived in Nashville for eight years and had started to think that we were never going to move again until the summer of my seventh grade year when my…

she arrived no one knew anything about her except that she was the niece of the town hermit Macon Ravenwood. Ethan had a class with her and the other girls in his class noticeably bullied her. Lena got up and walked over the the sharpener and pretended to sharpen her pencil, but they continued and (her being magical and all) accidentally used her powers to shatter all the windows in the room. The movie (in my opinion) was terrible! In the end instead of them continuing the adventure…

marker, and some an ordinary pencil. While they are all writing instruments and used for potentially the same purpose of marking paper, they are not entirely the same. They have different shapes, sizes, thickness, and color. These writing tools represent people and how we are all different and are good at certain things. You wouldn’t use a paintbrush to write out an entire essay like you would a pencil. We could represent Standardized testing with a pencil sharpener, all the same size, width,…

out today with a sick daughter. The Principal advised that he would be staying in the classroom all day. Most of the day the students were well behaved, however there were a few minor social incidents. One student started to cry because he lost is pencil and thought someone…

Writing an essay can be troublesome at times, along with other schoolwork assignments to be turned in, there 's a life outside of school as well to be had. This being my official first semester of college I knew a majority of the assignments would be writing essays’. Trust me I know, for some it comes easy; some students can receive the writing assignment and have a paper done the same day. Some of us are not as fortunate, others struggle to compose a sentence, a paragraph, much less a two or…

ACCOMMODATIONS/ MODIFICATIONS SPECIAL NEEDS TO USE: Mentally Challenged Accommodations #1: Have the student use thick pencils or markers to help with challenging motor skills development when completing writing task. Accommodations #2: Provide student with a step by step break down of each lesson or activity to help the student stay on task and aid with any short term memory struggles the student may have. Modifications: Student will be provided reading books that is at student’s reading level.…