High school can be a great experience or a terrible one. Some people come in and pass all of their classes in flying colours and have a lot a lot friends, others however come in and fail all of their classes and are an outcast because they have a hard time with it. In the movie mean girls and the novel speak the main characters have about the same experience. The stories even are parallel to each other. The three main similarities of Mean Girls and Speak are the Main Characters; Melinda from Speak, and Cady from Mean Girls…
Children are irresponsible, messy, and careless. As children grow up, they tend to try to learn from their mistakes, and they mature. But, some people do not grow up mentally. In That was Then, This is Now, by S.E. Hinton, Bryon Douglas, who needs to go through his personal journey, has a friend, Mark, who is a tedious person who is endangering Bryon, and causes Bryon to make a life-changing decision in order to fully mature; I once had to go on a profound personal journey to adapt to middle school.…
Michael Gerard Bauer dealt with a topic that relates to the age group I’m in now. “Don’t Call Me Ishmael” was written about teen hood: Bullying, coping, low self esteem, self consciousness, the list could go on and St Daniels College is the place where it all happens. Ishmael is a fourteen year old boy who goes through the problems that I see teens face every day. His mates are nonetheless social outcasts themselves. All the characters in Bauer’s book deals with their own individual problems.…
Your novel speak conveys the thoughts of a speechless young girl named Melinda.You convey the feelings and emotions of her in a way that everyone can relate in some way or form.I wonder what convinced you to write this book? What made you want to convey the true inner emotions of all adolescents? I feel like you did something most authors can not do , and that is allowing the audience to decide their own theme and their own way to look at your novel.You put out there the deepest feelings of the common teen and allowed many to feel melinda's pain and help us learn from her mistake. Flirting between teens is common and healthy. But, some teens have trouble knowing the difference between respectful behavior and unwanted attention. Sexual…
Setting:This story takes place in a modern day period in an unspecified city. However, the majority of the story is being told in an average high school atmosphere as the teenagers face the same social and academic problems that us students face presently.…
Thinking and Reacting “My present world was always, in its mildness, a little disappointing.” Location and the people around you take some time getting used to when you’re in a boarding school. In this novel by Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, After being stuck in a midwestern town most of Lee Fiora’s life, she decides her eighth grade year that she wants to go to boarding school due to what she has seen on TV and in magazines. Lee has made a huge decision regarding her education; not only that, but where she will live for the next four years of her life and the kinds of people she will meet. Characters and setting have a large impact on the way people think about their life and react to their life.…
Texting helps us communicate with family, friends, or co-workers to get an idea through or a time to go to the mall or just saying that you're going to the person's house. On the other hand texting could be bad, in “Text-Speak Is Harming Teens’ Writing Skills”, it says that 13 year olds through 17 year olds sometimes use slang like LOL or UR2K meaning laugh out loud or you are to kind.…
The writing style brings out emotions that have the power to overwhelm people, not to make them feel pity or sadness, but to help them realize the reality of the innocent kids’ lives, also it discusses the various ways kids endure hurt and no child, teen or even an adult, should have to experience the trauma that lives in the daily lives of the South Central Los Angeles school. Anne Beatty maneuvers powerful emotion with a strong writing style to draw people in and makes them empathize and sympathize with the kids or faculty experiencing the loss of a friend or family member. Furthermore, no one should have to go through the pain of the numerous amounts of death the kids, parents, and teacher see on a day to day…
Dean Maniuszko Mr. McKnight English 3-4H, pd. 2 15 May 2013 Decisions for the Future ! As high-school students (and their families) approach their junior year of high…
The reading What High School Is by Theodore R. Sizer accurately depicts an average day for a high school student, but fails to show some of the most critical things about what high school is. A large portion of the reading tells about the average day of a student named Mark. This portion of the story is the focus of my response. Although the description of his day is pretty accurate, it fails to show the emotion and feelings of that day. The story only describes what he does in his classes and not what he thinks about those classes. The story over simplifies what high school is to each individual student. Although most students probably follow about the same schedule, the way that student reacts towards his classes, teachers, students, and administrators varies greatly. While one student…
Especially as young adolescents, we can become immersed into the rules of society. A well known quote is ‘all actions have benefits or consequences’. This saying is demonstrated in many of today’s societies. Being individuals, if you do not fit in or follow societies rules you will be teased or looked at funny, people try to change themselves to fit in and live up to societies satisfaction. Author Glenda Millard explores this in A Small Free Kiss in the Dark. Skip one of the main protagonist’s in the book who has just progressed into his early adolescent years showing his innocent view of his world. Skip was an odd one at school, he wrote notes to his teacher making up excuses for not having friends; he also invented other notes he would take to school to have permission to put his hands in the sky because that is how he finds about the light. One of the many excuses Skip has for not having friends is a simplistic note explaining that ‘he isn’t good at maths, the others might think he was dumb’. The note Skip wrote is telling us firstly, skip is scared he will be judged by society because he is not good at math’s and portrayed as ‘dumb’, secondly he was often excluded at school because he didn’t like the thought of having a friend. This is another example of how young individuals are excluded from society due to not being the smartest in his class or not wanting to associate with other kid’s at school.…
I am lucky enough to say that most of the time, I don’t really feel like an outsider. Usually, I can quickly adapt to new situations and easily relate to people. The one time that stands out in my mind of when I did feel like an outsider, is when I started high school. Like many others, the first day of high school was very nerve-wracking to me. I went to Castro Valley High School, which is a fairly large, public high school. The student body there numbers over three thousand.…
When I reached school, a group of girl throw me suspicious glances and huddle together in whispered discussion. They must be filled to the brim with rumors and gossip about how I stole X’s boyfriend [imaginary] or how y broke my heart [even more untrue] .The teachers announces the mark of our last test, the student of the ‘bookworm’ genre start daggers looking at me because I secure more marks than they did the fact that they stayed up three nights to study for the test.…
6th Grade is already hard enough. In elementary school, we’re all ignorant to how the world is past 5th grade. It’s the second worst thing to happen right behind being the freshman class in high school. You’re the new group, the “fresh-meat,” the easier ones to pick-on. College simply gets an easy pass because to be different and unique here is almost cherished, and there is a higher sense of maturity then in the dreaded 6th grade.…
Shaking hands in greeting or to seal a contract has been done since at least the second century BC. The gesture demonstrates that the hand holds no weapon, and is a symbol of good sportsmanship, equality, and trust. Shaking the right hand sealed a bargain, but it was important not to use the left hand, as the left handshake dissolved a bargain.…
