Year Three

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…

Seventh grade has been a mix of amazing and crazy. You might be wondering why I don’t have a chapter for sixth grade. In fifth grade, I had expressed how I felt bored and that school work was too easy. My mother took this into account. She talked about it at conferences with my fifth grade homebase, Mrs. Breza. Then, my mom introduced the idea of skipping a grade. I knew there had been students that have skipped before me, but I never thought of the idea for myself. The school was hesitant to…

Glass Castle is a heartbreaking yet inspirational memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book details the early years of her hectic life, from the western United States to Welch, West Virginia. Her memoir provokes disbelief and outrage, but all the stories within it actually happened. The book opens up with her first memory of being severely burned while cooking hot dogs at the age of three. The stories only get stranger from there. She was stashed in the back of a U-Haul, left to scavenge for…

Raven-Symoné - Although she appeared on The Cosby Show, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and a couple of movies throughout the 1990s, most people remember Raven-Symoné for her starring role in the Disney Channel classic That’s So Raven. While the show was mainly marketed towards young girls, boys were coaxed into watching it by Raven Baxter’s wit and sassy attitude, as well as her glamorous clothes and makeup, which set her aside from most other teen stars of the time. Raven-Symoné was so perfect in…

career in Atwood McDonald, which had lasted till third grade. For reasons like bullying I had left for another school. This place of education was titled East Fort worth Montessori Academy. There, they gave me a forth grade education similar to the years before. It was only till the fifth grade to where my A honor roll that I had always had changed to an AB honor roll. After Montessori I had moved to the current School that I am in now; Summit International Predatory. Here I had started my…

got older, we ate frozen pizza more and more. My mom met Denise, who is now my other mother (they got married), and had her take care of us while she was at work. Soon, Denise’s dad, Lon, visited and decided to move up to Washington. We went on a three-week road trip, going through Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, and back into Washington. We visited several famous places on the way, like the Crazy Horse…

I still had aspirations of playing at a higher level, but my confidence was completely shaken when I did not make varsity basketball as a freshman. There were four freshman who had been invited to play fall ball with the varsity team from the year before and I was the only one who did not make varsity. I was pulled aside by the coach who told me he just felt I needed a little bit more time to develop. I was furious and I wanted to prove him wrong. After the first scrimmage of the season…

Anyone can go to seventh grade but, first you must finish sixth grade. I think that I should be able to move up to seventh grade since I have gotten amazing grade through out this whole school year. In social studies, E.L.A, and, math I have learned many new things. Some of the new things that I have learned are algebra, perfect paragraph form, and about the economy. I think that I am eligible to go to seventh grade. I think that in Social Studies I have excelled greatly since the first marking…

quickly and easily, so I had a ton of spare time while I was homeschooled. I had a few friends at West Delaware before I joined the school system from dual enrollment for classes such as art and music, but the idea of going to school from eight until three, Monday through Friday, was incredibly intimidating. When I first joined public school I tried my best to blend in with the other students, but was about as successful as a turtle in the two hundred meter dash. I endured fifth and sixth grade…

of Success for All showed an increase in students reading abilities and special education placement had declined. However, more current research shows that students receiving Success for All instruction are still reading anywhere from a month to a year behind their…