She struggled with school like I have sometimes. She refuses to speak most of the time and she misbehaves in ways to try to give meaning to her life or to avoid the pain she feels deeply. Her grades start dropping and she loses interest in almost everything. I had to keep a secret once. A secret I felt like I couldn’t tell anyone because of the fear that if I told my whole family would hate me.
However, when I started school I integrated well with the other students and found that many were interested in my Hatian culture. I learned to be a stronger, self confident, and self reliable woman through my experiences during my first school year in America. By the eleventh grade I already had a job and could buy some of the girly things I liked and still go to school. I would not be able to do that if I lived in Haiti and so I appreciate it. In order to be able to
I struggled with my classes with the little support I was given; I became dissatisfy with school. I lost interest, my teachers stopped engaging my imaginations in wanting to keep learning “I got very good at watching a blackboard with minimum awareness” (Rose19). I gave up; I stopped trying and dropped out of high school in my twelfth
Holding it is, like, ‘what?’ ” Frances credits her teacher not only for her notes in the margin in all six of those early drafts, but also for the encouragement to keep going. “I would have never imagined when I first started Western Civilization that that would have even been a possibility in all possible worlds, that I could write a paper that would one day be published,” Frances said. “She was just really encouraging with it and really supportive. I think having that support made me want to follow through even more. It made me feel like I could do it.” As she begins to think about career plans, Frances thinks she might want to play a similar role in the lives of others.
Next, the teacher will hand out the math notes, so the students can follow along. Having math notes that students can keep in a binder and refer back to is real helpful in math. Next the teacher will ask the students to think about how many problems are on their normal math test, this number will be the bottom of the fraction. Then the teacher will ask the students for a number to put in the numerator place. Now that we have a fraction the teacher will show them how to find the percent by making an equivalent fraction.
Embedded Assessment 1 I would like to introduce my mom, Cathy Patterson. She’s a molecular biologist, and went to Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. I enjoyed getting to interview her because it let me get to know my mom a bit more, and made me realize what I have to do to do well in high school. To start off with, I asked her if she liked high school, and asked her to explain why or why not. She said that she had enjoyed being at high school, because she loved learning, and she got to hang out with her friends a lot.
It was hard to change the way she spoke, especially because she was raised speaking different language. More like anything, she wanted to speak like everyone else. Madera shows how crucial were teachers in her life. During high school years she met great English teacher who asked if she would like to write for the school paper. This gave her hope, possibly, one day she might also be able to talk correctly.
In addition, she offered stability in a big school I was not used to and that was what I envied about her. She ended up being the first person to ever scare me. I was naïve back then; I did not understand right from wrong. Then, a life lesson hit me in my face. We stayed friends until the summer before fifth grade when she finally crossed the line.
Surprisingly, I had begun to like her after an hour. She was not half as bad as she seemed. Now Meagan is one of my best friends. I realized I should have given her a chance before judging her straight off the bat. Most times it is best to leave all gossip and appearances behind and give everyone an equal chance.
All it really takes is for one teacher, just one, to give you the extra push that you need to succeed academically. For me it was my high school history teacher Mr. Zigler. From my freshman to senior year of high school, Mr. Zigler would tutor me in all subjects to help me succeed and to help me get into advanced placement classes as well. Not only that, but I trusted him with everything, it was like he was my personal therapist in school, being that I didn’t have that at home. It was with his help that