The Best Years

of the young boy. This is seemingly the first time that he has ever experienced an interest in girls, and the narrator is reflecting on the time when he went first went walking with a girl in the cold December. At the time, the narrator was twelve years old, but I think that the poem is about his growth and the changes that all young children go through when they are first discovering love and romance. Even though the poem is set in the mid twentieth century, it is still relatable. Every adult…

celebrated every year. In Pakistan several days are designated as national holidays in reminiscences of national heroes and significant events. Some most common of them are: • Pakistan Day – 23 March. • Independence Day – 14 August. • Defense of Pakistan Day – 6 September. • Birth and death anniversaries of Quaid-e-Azam – 25 December and 11 September respectively. • Labor Day – 1 May. While some frequent religious festivals, celebrated according to the Islamic lunar calendar every year are as…

While growing up, sports have always been a big part of my life. At the age of only six years old, my parents first signed me up for coach pitch softball. Little did they know that I was going to fall in love with the game and that they were going to have to spend countless hours at softball fields during the spring each year watching me play. Being so young when I first started playing, winning and losing did not matter at all. As long as I got to throw, hit, and catch the ball, I was happy.…

Word Identification As suggested by the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 administrator’s manual instructions, the first grade word list was administered, to determine the instructional reading level to establish a starting point on the reading assessment. The QRI-4 guideline suggested Addison begin reading the word lists at the first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted…

Everyone always has a story of how they got from one place to another. Maybe it’s how they started one place and ended up in another. Sometimes it can be different circumstances. My life started changing when I got my first referral in sixth grade for fighting. Everything was smooth until the summer of 2010 when I was going into seventh grade. I and my friend Jeremy were mud bogging on my lawnmower and the tie rod broke, so we decided to leave it and get the lawnmower later on that day. Once we…

standardized t-score for the reading test administered during the spring term of 2000 when participants were enrolled in the first grade. Income is a categorical measure that indicates the range of total dollar amount a child’s household received in the year preceding the spring of 2002. Additionally, I created a new indicator variable for uniform policy engagement using the uniform variable which coded responses to the survey question, “Are third graders at this school required to wear…

Methods Participants Participants will include first graders from ____ Elementary School. Students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and students who are classified as level 1, 2, or 3 English Language Learners will be excluded from the study. Students who score below benchmark on mCLASS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills Next (mCLASS: DIBELS Next) will be assessed by their teacher for elevated inattention rates. The students who have both below benchmark reading scores and…

I consider myself to be a proud bibliophile. For as long I remember I have been a book lover. I always get excited at the thought of getting new books, reading them and showing how much I adore them. My love for reading comes from my mother. My mother was the first person who taught me how to read when I was just three. She introduced me to different children books, encouraging my love for reading. She often limits my TV hours, so I can read with her. I grow up witnessing my mother read…

schedule. I went to Edison and it was amazing, I was ready to start the year off big. During my first week…

As an unexpected by-product in both novels, control is balanced by altruistic behavior of the protagonists. Jimmy is manipulated by the outside force of his best friend Crake to support Crake’s vision of a new reality, but Jimmy takes on the responsibility he is tricked into as his own. Dana takes control of her situation by using her fear of death, which allows her to protect her own life. Where Jimmy reacts…