Seventh grade

younger sister, I looked up to her and wanted to be just like her. After I started to realize that she got praised for her good behavior and grades in school, I wanted to be commended as well. Though this did make me want to be a better student and did help me improve, it wasn’t a sudden change. What really changed my mindset about school was my second and third grade teacher, Sarah. She had been my teacher through my downfall and noticed how badly I was behaving. Once she sat down with me and…

An Outsider “I wish you could see all the pain and emotion that is built up inside me.” My school and social life was very different in elementary school than how it is now. Back to kindergarten all throughout elementary and a bit of 6th grade, I was in so much emotional pain. I wasn’t happy with my appearance or body, I would always put myself down, had zero confidence in myself and hated who I was. There was a point where I believed everyone who left me out, and made fun of me. I believed…

accidentally created you. You are a plague worse than the Black Death and it needs to be cured quickly. I was very fond of math when I was young. I actually understood it. As the years went by, you got more and more difficult. Then it happened; in the seventh grade, I had my worst…

topic has piqued my interest because of the dedication I have to sports and education. Through countless hours of studying and many sleepless nights, I have successfully been able to maintain a 4.0 grade point average since the letter grading system was introduced in the seventh grade. Along with grades, I was deeply involved in athletics as well; competing in football and basketball throughout my time at Jenks High School. I know first hand how challenging it can be…

there was something my moms were right about. My moms raised me with a strong set of morals, including, “hard work pays off.” Sometimes this can be discouraging, when you work hard but it doesn’t pay off as you’d like it to. I’ve always gotten the grades I strive for without much struggle. However, once high school started,…

enjoyed Physical Education (PE) out of all the classes on his school agenda. At the beginning of his seventh grade year, however, the entire student body was informed that there would be a change as to how gym class would be graded. Rather than using the traditional grading scale, the faculty had decided to turn PE into a pass or fail class. This also meant that the class would not affect students’ Grade Point Averages (GPA); which is a huge factor for students, starting in junior high, as Robby…

I was in the 7th grade just living my life. It was towards the end of the school year and we were at recess. It was a beautiful day outside without a cloud in the sky. We were playing a nice game of kickball. I remember things leaning up to what happened but not exactly…

8th Grade Graduation As we sit here today, eagerly waiting to graduate, let’s ask ourselves one simple question. Where would we all have been without teachers today? It’s not just teachers though, it’s the friends we made; the experiences and knowledge that we all gained throughout elementary and middle school too. Even though we are all graduating middle school today, I think I can speak on behalf of my classmates when saying that we all learned so much already. To my teachers, friends,…

thought of myself as a Christian because I always went to church, prayed, went to Sunday school, and said I loved Jesus. When I was in 1st grade, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. She survived, but this really scared me and I questioned why God would do something that bad to my mom. I went to Young Life family camp at Sharptop for the first time in 2nd grade and although I was really young, I saw what it was like to live like Jesus. I went to family camp for about 4 years, but at this…

Proverb that says, “Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up again.” I really wish I heard that quote when I thought I was a failure, but really was just being lazy. In Carol Dweck’s article “Brainology” a study is conducted on seventh grade students and their mindsets. Their mindsets were measured and studied for two years. Dweck studied the difference between the fixed mindset and the growth mindset students and how they did in school. According to Dweck, “research is showing…