The bright-eyed kids storming through my Social and Emotional teacher’s classroom looked like a cast of hawks bursting through the room. They scanned the room‚ their small bodies twisting and turning in search of someone‚ anyone they knew from last year’s SEL pairings. “These‚” my SEL teacher‚ Mrs. Smith‚ waved her arm over the small children‚ “are our first grade buddies. Pair up and start the project we discussed yesterday.” As she waddled back to her desk‚ a small kid with obviously bleached blonde
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Never in my outright life would I have fathomed life to have thrown me a curve ball like the one pitched at me in August of 2012. The person I once knew‚ Tammy‚ had gone missing until she found herself. The transition to a puny town from an immense city completely changed who I was. Let’s start from the beginning. I had a vast amount of friends‚ majority of my school knew me‚ being accepted into AVID‚ people knew my religious personality‚ and accepted my disposition‚ and I had a sense of belonging
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“Mamo‚ nie chce isc do szkoly‚ ja sie boje!” That is the first thing I told my mom in Polish before walking into my classroom on my first day of school. I was terrified‚ and I told my mom that morning that I was scared and I didn’t want to go to school. Growing up in America and having English being my second language was extremely difficult for me as a child. I remember crying everyday before school because I dreaded the embarrassment of not knowing English and the humiliation put on me by my peers
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A). The emergency: (5 points) During this pass September of 2016‚ a traumatic event unfold before my very eyes. I was visiting my aunt’s house because I feel home sick. Honestly‚ I feel like family sick; my aunt is like another mother to me. I spent the weekend there in North Miami‚ and I just finished saying my goodbyes to my cousin. As I am walking down the street to the bus stop‚ I was digging through my pocket for my headphones. An accident happened right in front of my house. Two cars going
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Athletic It was my first year of high school and I thought about playing sports but never told anyone. All my friends were already into sports and I didn’t even understand it. First‚ I thought I would be too shy to play anything‚ I don’t like a crowd of people. Then I thought my weight and height would be a big issue‚ I didn’t even think I could get pass try outs. Everywhere I would go I would always be the shortest person. Eventually my thoughts changed. After being in school for about a month I
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There was this old man named John. John owned a big office building with clear tables outside his building and he wears glasses. Every day he would go to his office building and check up on everything from 9am to 11am. Then every Tuesday‚ after work‚ he would go to a breakfast place across the street and get bacon pancakes and coffee. Then after he gets his food‚ he would go sit on this bench outside of his job and eat right next to a nice water fountain‚ after he eats his food he goes back to his
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Many men and women go through rape. 81% of women and 43% of men have been raped in their lifetime. I am part of that 81% of women‚ and it was my best friend’s brother that did this disgusting thing to me. I was around 6 1/2 and he was around 13‚ I had the biggest crush on him but he would never know that‚ no one knew about it because it was wrong. Soon he started trying to get me to show my body to him and I would tell him no because I knew it was wrong‚ so then he started hitting me until I said
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cafeteria‚ what do you see? As a new student or incoming freshmen‚ you see many unfamiliar faces. Once you enter a room of people you are unfamiliar with‚ you tend to feel uncomfortable or unwelcomed. Personally‚ I experienced those emotions myself‚ after moving from town to town. Whenever a see a new student‚ I know exactly how they feel. Their either nervous‚ upset‚ shy‚ or excited to start a new chapter in their life. My best friend Marie was a new student to Weber the same year I was. We found comfort
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As the years go by throughout my life‚ I always seem to come across one question… Who am I? Many thoughts occur in my mind‚ although I seem to be certain I have it all figured out; I always tend to second doubt myself. But this time‚ I am pretty sure who I’ve become. You see‚ I must thoroughly elaborate my past before I can explain the present. Therefore‚ you being able to understand what I had to endure to become the man I am today. It all started long ago with a basketball‚ but soon it became
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foundation of where her life work was established and mine began. My earliest recollections of education and art making revolve around memories of my grandmother Mary Ella Willis. Grandma would use her worldly travels‚ personal stories and experiences create her now lifetime work called Steal Away Home Black Memorabilia to educate the community about the great history of African Americans that is often marginalized in our everyday school curriculum. Her collection consists of thousands of Afrocentric artifacts
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