The Best Years

she became good when she entered third grade. From then, I waited for the third grade to come. In Korea, there is a tradition of eating a bowl of rice cake soup on New Year 's Day and it was said that eating a bowl paralleled becoming older. Therefore, being the hasty kid I was, I decided to eat five bowls so that I could gain years faster. This ended tragically as I remained in the bathroom for the remainder of the day. Not to mention…

When first developing a budget, each city department has the first three months of the year to prepare their strategic plans and objectives. Ultimately, each department develops their budget requests, which is due on the second Tuesday in May. Upon each department crafting their budgets, from July through September, the Mayor’s office reviews…

Student Analysis Introduction This writing assignment, was completed at Sharpsville Elementary, in Mr. Anglin’s Third Grade classroom. The beginning of an Independent Read Aloud was conducted with the students. The book was a story about an immigrant family’s journey called; “Lost and Found Cat” by: Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes. The lesson started by asking the students if they owned or had a pet. Leading into the assignment, the students were asked to brainstorm what they think the cat has to do…

good progress in reading during the school year. Two months before school year ended, Alexandra was attending school reading club, and according to what her teacher said she was able to comprehend at a high level as well as to make predictions and inferences throughout her reading. Her teacher recommended her parents to keep working with Alexandra on improving her reading during the summer, and because Alexandra attended the Montessori School a few years before she started public school, they…

Shevaun was given the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) test. The QRI test is a test that is used to assess a student’s ability to recognize words and comprehend information within a text correctly. According to Lencher et al. (2008) “weak readers overrely on context and recognize words in context more easily than out of context” (p. 68). It can also be used to assess a child’s ability to read aloud, fluency rate and their ability to retell the information that was read. The test consists of a…

I will never forget the first and last time I heard my dad scream. I was in third grade, and my class had recently finished up our unit on crayfish. The school had decided to allow students to keep them as house pets when the class was done with them. The student just needed permission from his or her parents. I longed to have a crayfish. Prior to the third grade, the closest I had ever had to a pet was a snail that I had watched for my neighbors while they were on vacation for a few weeks. I…

Music has been an essential part and larger than expected role in my life since elementary school. It has given me many opportunities I could have never even dreamt of and has given me the ability to impact the lives of others. Music became a part of my life when I first started playing the viola at Luther Memorial School in the fifth grade. I continued playing throughout middle school and now attend Cleveland School of the Arts, where I have been able to perform countless times and have had…

family students and the non-intact family students was enlarged with the recent waves while stayed mild in earlier years. Likewise, a gap of engagement rates existed in the cohort patterns as well for the interactions between the family structures and birth cohorts of students from 1974 cohort to the most recent 2002 cohort. The interactions between socioeconomic indicators and survey years revealed the general…

Oryx and Crake, written by Margret Atwood is about a man named Snowman, once called Jimmy; who is living on a beach with a non-human species called Crakers. Crakers ask him many questions about life which causes Snowman’s anger toward Crake, who is their creator. Oryx is a female voice that results in Snowman’s hallucinations. This essay will demonstrate the non-human adaptation that Snowman evolves as he is isolated from mankind. Evidence shows Jimmy’s emotional connection to animals when…

The First Time I Got Bullied Tymir Vickers Have you ever been bullied before? Well I have this is how it all happened, it was my first day at John B Kelly Elementary school 8:00 2016 Philadelphia I was in fifth grade and it was my first day I was kind of shy until I met to people named Ciani Barkers and Nasai Gordon. They showed me around the school they told me about themselves and I told them about me. Me and my friends were walking down the hall with each other that’s when I heard…