Seventh grade

“Seventh Grade” & “Melting Pot” conflicts The stories “Seventh Grade” and “Melting Pot” both have conflicts. There is a difference though. In “Seventh Grade” the conflict is internal, meaning he has a problem not relating to the outside world; yet in “Melting Pot” the conflict is external, meaning the problem does include the outside world or another individual. The problem in “Seventh Grade” is Victor does not think he can impress Teresa with just being himself and almost makes a fool of…

conflicts, but two will be brought up here. One is external and the other is internal. Internal conflicts take place in the mind, however, external conflicts are triggered by outside forces. The conflict in the “Melting Pot” is external, however, “Seventh Grade” is internal. In the story “Melting pot” there is an external conflict between Anna Quindlen and the rest of the neighborhood. This plot is external because the different cultures are arguing about how issues should be carried out around…

ever felt that life is literally too short or that every event in your life went by so quickly? My seventh grade year was like that. Back in fifth grade, I was always nervous about going to the other side of the school building. Whether it was the snicky sock smell of the hallways, the height of the eighth grade boys, or just scary bumping into one of the teachers, that was scary. At the end of sixth grade, I was terrified about what was coming. I walked into the school building over the summer…

clarinet I was in the sixth grade I wasn't very good. In fact, the only reason I had joined the band was because my friends and I didn't get into the same elective; they'd been forced into band, while I was one of the lucky few who'd gotten into computer science. The thought of being separated from my friends did not sit well with sixth-grade me and that's why, at the beginning of sixth-grade, I found my self sitting in band holding a brand new clarinet. Anyways, sixth-grade flew. At the end of…

telling you things changed over time, not only you changed, everyone changed. In The adventures of Tom Sawyer, the main character Tom Sawyer changes throughout the book. Like To Sawyer, I have also changed academically and socially throughout seventh grade. First, the main character Tom changed throughout the book. Tom changed from the townspeople thinking he was a troublemaker to thinking he is a hero. When Becky and Tom were trapped down there, Tom finds the way outside to save both of them.…

Chapter five of The View from Saturday starts off with Mrs. Laurencin, the principal of Epiphany Middle School, calling Mrs. Olinski up to her office. Mrs. Laurencin warns Mrs. Olinski that she must have an answer ready for any parents of high honor roll students that didn’t make the Academic Bowl team. After this conversation with Mrs. Laurencin, Mrs. Olinski makes efforts to think about how she should pick her Academic Bowl Team. Then, on a Saturday in late October, while grading social…

A couple of weeks ago I took a seventh grade student out for frozen yogurt to ask a different questions about bullying, what kind of anti-bullying methods she experienced in her school, her opinions about those methods, and her ideas about different approaches. Though this was one middle school student out of the millions of middle schoolers in America, I interviewed this seventh grader in hopes to see these things from a bystanders eyes and gain insight from a whole new perspective. In this…

Change, to make or become different. In the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there is a lot of change. This seventh grade year I have also had a lot of change. I think this change has made me a better person and helped me throughout this year. In this novel the main character Tom Sawyer has matured throughout the book. At the beginning or towards the middle of the book, Tom is very naughty or mischievous. An example of his misbehavior is when he made others kids whitewash the fence, simply…

expounded upon. Sixth grade math is the chosen subject and grade level. Sixth grade math instruction should focus on four critical areas: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) completing understanding of division…

On Tuesday morning Ms. Mcmanus’ class took their observing notebooks and walked to the annex gym. They observed the gym class as the seventh graders entered the room, began with their warm up and started the game. As the seventh grade class entered the gym, the drama started. A kid got pushed as they went to the middle of the gym to sit. While they were settling down on the ground, they were very noisy until, Mrs. Holyoak clapped to get their attention. When she clapped for attention, she…