An Open Letter to Ninth Graders Preparing our students‚ long before they become our students. Patrick Sullivan Related Items: Social Class and College Readiness College-Readiness Checklist Dear First-Year High School Students‚ I am one of the co-editors of What Is “College-Level” Writing?—a 2006 collection of essays that focuses on the difference between high school writing and college-level writing. Because of my work on that book‚ I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last five years thinking
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We have been friends for quite a while now‚ and I just want to say thank you for being there when times got tough. I know you more than I know anybody and I’m so glad that we started hanging out together. Lately I’ve been thinking about the way that we always compete with each other and it’s really starting to get to me. I know that it’s not always intentional‚ but it just seems like you enjoy getting into those little arguements that we seem to almost always come across. You and I have alot of the
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Angelica Galvan Professor Frost Composition I September 10‚ 2014 Don’t read this without thinking The expectations that students just out of high school have to meet in college are different than what they are used to. In “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders‚” Patrick Sullivan establishes his opinion on the most important college-readiness skills– reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening‚ grit and attitude. Sullivan’s knowledge about the needs of college freshmen comes from his experience as an English
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Book is the Best Friend I’ve always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library‚ says Jorge Luis Borges. “A true friend is your 2nd self”. This is my personal experience that‚ like human friends‚ books are our best companions. When I read a book‚ I feel like talking to my best friend. Every book I read moulds my strengths and shapes my personality. Book gives us education‚ knowledge and pleasure. Importance of reading books beggars description. Book is our great advisor because when we face
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My best friend Both by myself and many other friends‚ But she‚ her own affections’ counselor Is to herself- I will not say how true But to herself so secret‚ so close So far from sounding discovery‚ As is the bud bit with an envious worm‚ She can spread her sweet leaves to the air‚ Or dedicate her beauty to the Sun. William Shakespeare This is she‚ she and again she. The one who is the golden window of the east‚ the ballet-dancer in the dark‚ Yes‚ she… The door opened slowly and calmly
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1. A friend in need is a friend indeed. This famous saying holds true. A true friend never sees only your good days and good deeds but he stands by you even on the darkest day of your life. Ramu Rao studies in my class. We have been friends since class two. On many occasions when I would forget my lunch box at home‚ he has shared his tiffin with me. Once when I nearly fought with the class bully he saved me. He thought that no good would come from bad actions and to get good things in life one
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My friend has been such a delightful and influential person in my life. She is apologetic and leads me on the right path. My friend gives me helpful guidance when I feel disheartened or hurt at times and I am so grateful to have a true friend who will stand up for me‚ shield me‚ tell me I was wrong and show and heartening way to do the right thing in life and I appreciate her honesty and integrity toward me and my family. I feel as though my friend will always support me whether I’m right or wrong
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My Best Friend The year was a strange one‚ one that was beyond anything I had ever experienced before in my short 12 years on planet Earth. The Y2K scare had everyone running for water‚ food and power supplies in the beginning. I was leaving elementary school and life couldn’t be happier. Between the “summer Olympics”‚ my friends and I developed‚ the beautiful scents of the local woods‚ the ma and pa ice cream shop we went to in downtown Crete‚ Illinois‚ or the new addition of all of us reading
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Grant Professor Neagle English 111 15 September 2010 We All Need Somebody to Lean On: My Ideal Friend According to Sharita Gadison‚ “Some friends come and go like a season‚ others are arranged in our lives for a reason. “ Many might agree that good friends are hard to come across‚ so the ones that I consider good friends‚ I keep them close. I know without a doubt the qualities that make a good friend. A friend is someone who is dependable. When all else fails‚ it never harms to be able to have that
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My Best Friend When we were in high school we do things to fit in with others‚ and to be able to say that you have at least experienced with things. Well‚ when I was in high school I got mixed up in the wrong crowd and started doing things that I am not so proud of. I was mixed up with people who used drugs and drank every day. This became such a routine thing for me that I dropped out of school after finishing my freshman year. I enrolled into GED classes but that didn’t work out because I was
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