As I stepped outside of the car‚ I realized how nice of a day it was. It was not the hottest day of the summer. It had to be about 94 degrees‚ but there was a nice breeze that would make the practice nice. This was only the fourth day of football practice and I was so excited. Today was a defensive day and defense was my favorite. I was always early for practice‚ I had a lot of time to relax and look at film of the practices before today. It was weird today because I was the only person in the locker
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“Seventh Grade” By Gary Soto Personal Response When your in seventh grade‚sometimes it can be confusing and you might struggle. Gary Soto shows us that when your in seventh grade‚ sometimes it can be difficult. In seventh grade‚ you will learn new things. Some new things you learn might be very interesting. Some things might be challenging. Some things might not be so challenging. Seventh grade sometimes is easy‚ but most of the time it’s difficult. When your a student in seventh grade‚ you
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Making the Grade Kurt Wiesenfeld Kurt Wiesenfeld is a physicist who teaches at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. He wrote this essay for the “My Turn” column of the June 17‚ 1996‚ issue of Newsweek. It was a rookie error. After 10 years I should have known better‚ but I went to my office the day after final grades were posted. There was a tentative knock on the door. “Professor Wiesenfeld? I took your Physics 2121 class? I flunked it? I wonder if there’s anything
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Grade retention‚ better known as "staying back"‚ "being held back" or "repeating"‚ has been the topic of much debate within the educational system. The controversy which surrounds this long-standing issue has been reinforced by such topics as the recent endorsement of academic standards. Research indicates that "the rate of retention has increased by approximately 40% in the last 20 years with as many as 15% of all American students held back each year and 30-50% held back at least once before
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Many colleges were involved in grade inflation; but the schools with the most evidence of this action are the Ivy League schools. Two of the schools in the Ivy League program that are known for this practice are Harvard and Princeton in a study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences “in 1966‚ twenty two percent of Harvard undergraduate students earned A’s. By 1996‚ that figure rose to forty-six percent. That same year eighty-two percent of Harvard seniors graduated with honors.”
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English Test 1 – 22 November 2009 Rewrite each of the sentences adding (‘s) or (‘) to the words in bold. 1. The girls books are clean. 2. Mr. Wong house is near my school. 3. The peacock tail is very beautiful. 4. My brothers bags are blue‚ but my sisters bags are red.
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It has been an amazing experience attending Dimmick Grade School. I have had the privilege to meet some very amazing people. These people have helped me grow and learn. Whether it be my fellow peers or my teachers‚ they have all taught me such wonderful things to carry on in life. I remember having a milk and rest time in Kindergarten. I thought that was pretty cool. I remember the great Halloweens. We had haunted houses and played games. We always got to walk around the gym in our costumes. I remember
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truly meant until I was in grade twelve. I realized that studying hard will help to have good grades. Having good grades will lead me to attending a university. I was very stressed in my last year of high school because I wanted to prove to my family that I am smarter than what they believed. I did not receive honor roll when I was in grade nine‚ ten or eleven. Grade twelve was the year where I finally knew how to study. Funny‚ right? Throughout my years in high school‚ I struggled to study because
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It wasn’t too long before I realized that high school was not just a walk in the park as I anticipated and to be extra serious than what I was. Sophomore year is when I figured this all out and in my Junior year is when I flipped the script. Now I’m striving‚ working‚ and improving on my learning to graduate. In my sophomore I wasn’t doing so sound‚ in I would say the majority of my classes I did fail 2 of my classes when honestly it shouldn’t have happened. The two classes I didn’t pass were English
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and less time consuming and hassle free. Like in schools‚ offices this brings a big help. In schools especially in colleges/universities it is consist of different people and machine that work together to achieve one common goal. One of this goal is the transferring of data or information of computed grades of the student on how they performed academically in their different respective subject. On latter days‚ instructors manually computing the grades of their students then input it in computer‚ print
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