The Cool Kids

The Evolution of the “Cool” Kid In Elementary School, there was this one popular kid who was “cool” because he didn’t like to work and harassed people. He never put in much effort or excelled at anything in school, other than gym class. For the sake of confidentiality, let’s call this guy John Doe. John spent his elementary days goofing off and doing anything except for his school work. I remember the days of recess being some of the most fun I’ve had at school. All of the days outside seemed to roll into one. It felt somewhere between a warm summer day and a crisp autumn noon. There were dew drops on the grass that all had just about evaporated into the baby blue sky. The sun was shining bright overhead, with the occasional puffy white cloud…

lived at, Mr. Amos. He tells her to think of this as an adventure and the chance for a new beginning, and she tells of she always wanted to be in the "cool kid" group. So that's exactly what she tries to do for most of the book. The town they have to move to is a small town of 435 people named Gouge Eye. She soon meets the girl next door named Dierdre whose family life is worse than her own. Her father often yelled at his wife, Hannah, and complained about wanting the house to burn down so…

Winkler writes about the exhibit, ‘American Cool’, at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and its numerous examples of cool. She says, that it highlights the idea of Americanness “earned individuality” as opposed to inherited arrogance. Cool people know which rules can be broken for illegitimate and legitimate reasons. Research emphasizes that cool people break the rules, but the right rules (Winkler, 2014). In fact, there has been a new research that finds cool people break the rules,…

silence, then few other kids began to say good morning back. My mom commended me for finally speaking and the caretakers did too. After my mom left one kid came up and said hi to me and I said the same back then we later became friends and I made many more too. Gaining new friends brought out some new self-confidence In me and helped me overcome my shyness and made want to make more friend. But that made me desperate for attention and popularity. For during most of my elementary and middle…

people looking up to me so I am not being a very good role model for the people around me. I know the 9th graders look up to us when we are in bible class. Like the other day in class I said something funny and they all laugh and even on the next day they were bringing it up and saying how funny it was. so If I act bad then they are going to think Nathan is being bad so it must be cool to be bad and that is not the kind of example I want to set so the kids in the younger grades I want them to…

It's not important to judge people because of their height, skin color, culture. And many of bully's are never skilled learners and even most of the time the people who get bullied be the bully. The students of a school think it's the easy route to more friends more popularity and girlfriend. When someone has a girlfriend they'll be recognized as the "Cool Kid". And the Meeks are the smart and gentle kids. the Meeks are an easy target for the bully's or the "Cool Kids" but really after High…

her powers. Another thing about her is that she’s so calm and thinks through her decisions. Even though I’m behind her choices, the default options are always thoughtful. If she was a real person, she would probably become a detective when she’s an adult. She notices small details and pieces together clues in a way that makes everything make sense, even if I have no idea what 's happening in the game. Even if she’s dealing with the disappearance of Rachel or piecing together, how someone is…

There’s nothing like the sound of the echoing of balls bouncing, and shoes squeaking on the hardwood floor of a gym. For me this was a very familiar place and sound of the many years playing the sport I love, the game of basketball. This time I wasn’t the one playing, I was coaching. Last fall I was asked by my high school varsity coach if I would help out coaching the freshmen team. My first initial thought was no, but I told him that I would think about it and get back to him as soon as…

I cannot imagine that time has flown so fast. It seems like yesterday when I was first hired in summer quarter to be a Peer Mentor. I used to have a lot of imagination about what it would be, and how I would react with my mentees when I officially become a Peer Mentor. This is also my first time to be a Peer Mentor, so I got super excited. However, everything is not like what it seems. When I first received my cohort assignment email said that I would be a Peer Mentor for IESL level 1 and 2, I…

During the time of my observation, I was able to see how the classroom staff transitions the students from their recess/preferred activity. Outside of the classroom is what Mrs. Stevens likes to call the cool down station. After transition from the gym, each student had to participate in the cool down station by sitting in the desk with their hands on the desk and taking ten deep breaths. After completing the cool down station, Mrs. Stevens would ask the student’s if they were ready to return to…