“A Not So Happy Holiday” Alysha McElroy-Hodges “Hello? Yeah, I’m at the library trying to get this copy of How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss for Krystal. Mhm. Yeah, bye.” “Mr. Maynard,” the elder librarian squeaked, “Your movie is right over here, would you like me to ring this up for you?” “Yes, Ma’am.” “Well, honey, I’m almost ready, give me just a few minutes.” She hobbled over to the young lady with the long brown hair and helped her configure some numbers for the new system.
Ethan told her not to panic because he said she might not be pregnant. Pattyn had never taken a class for protecting herself but she knew that she should panic. When Pattyn went home, she noticed that she hadn’t got her menstrual cycle for about seven weeks. So she went to the store to purchase a pregnancy test. When she got home she took the test and it said
THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC A NOVEL BY: JANE YOLEN THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC A NOVEL BY: JANE YOLEN TEXT | RESPONSE | 1) “Look,” she said quickly to Aaron to shut him up, “it doesn’t matter if you make a mistake, Ron-Ron, but if you do, I’ll be right there next to you. I’ll whisper it into your ear just like they do in the plays when someone forgets a line." (Yolen 5) | This text recaps me of the time when my best friend was very tense for, she had to recite a quote the day of our fifth grade graduation that was going to be the day after. The reason for being panicky was because she had to memorize the quote and she wouldn’t have the facility of inspecting any paper that would allow her to recall the missing words. I told her, as her
I asked her the policy question- what is a foley?- of which she answered correctly. 4/10/14 She was very friendly and had no complaints about the staff or s she was working with. She mentioned that the patient census was low and that she did not know what to do on her down time. I told her as long as she finished her two rounds, it is always good to revisit patients and converse with them to keep them company. I also told them they should assist
As I took a seat, the chorus direction, Ms. Morrow, introduced herself and began to teach us how to read music. I found it tremendously frustrating to be in a beginning chorus class because I already knew how to read music. So the next day I returned to room "eight-zero-one"
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys was an easy-read and interesting book. It all started in 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is preparing for school. Then one night, the Soviet secret police barge into her home without any word. “It wasn't a knocking. It was an urgent booming that made me jump in my chair.
On the first of December in 1955, history was made. While she did not realize that she was in the making of a great moment in history, Rosa Parks, a kind-hearted, middle-aged seamstress refused to give up her seat on a bus ride home in Montgomery, Alabama, simply because of the color of her skin, thus, setting in motion the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Therefore, being arrested for act of civil disobedience. If I were to teach a fourth grade class about the most important person in African American History, I would give them a brief lesson of her life after and prior to the incident in 1955. I would note them about her historical and political influences and her social and family influences.
Finished with her drawing she’d open her desk drawer with a swift glance back at me. She’d then take her colored pencils and quickly, but carefully color in what she had produced. Putting the finishing touches on what she would call an amateur master piece, she gestured to me one more second please. I sat silently until she would turn around and say “It’s not finished yet”, knowing that an artist’s work is never finished, I would reply “I know.” She would then return a small smile and pleasantly say, “What’s up?” showing me she’s ready to
Introduction It is a cool morning in mid-April. A woman walks into a crowded teacher’s lounge for a cup of coffee after teaching her morning English class at a small middle school in Oklahoma. As she sips her coffee, the scene of a demolished building on the television steals her attention. It is the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The same building that her husband works at and the same building that offers a daycare for her young children to stay at while she works.
NCEA Level 2 English Reading Response You Are Now Entering the Human Heart is a short story written by Janet Frame, it is a short story that is written in first person, the narrator is in the shadows of the Natural Science Museum observing a class from the city on a school trip under the control of an elderly teacher, Miss Aitcheson. The narrator is on a timed schedule as she has to catch a train home. She is making her way over to the museum when she walks past a large exhibition of the human heart and wonders whether she has enough time to visit it, however she decides against it. The class is there to have a lesson on snake handling by the museum attendant who had been working with snakes for years. He tells Miss Aitcheson that the best way for the students to not be as afraid of the snake, is through her.