...School Days School Days When looking over my life as a child, I wanted to reflect on my childhood and teenage years. I grew up without both of my parents, therefore this was the most important part of my life. The reason these two experiences meant so much to me, because my sister made the decision to raise me. I can reflect back on these two situations that made me the woman I am today. I didn’t allow my life to stop me from receiving my education. My sister was my role model that I looked up too. Even though, my sister is no longer here I am still striving to achieve my education. I learned at an early age the importance of an education. My goal is to instill in my daughter the importance of an education. Microsystem My support came from my sister and this allowed me to go beyond the crying. I can remember in elementary school, I would cry all the time, because I didn’t like going. As a child growing up school was one of my less favorite places. I was a spoiled child by my father, therefore the only person I wanted to be with was him. I did not understand how important school was back then. It was so hard for me to adjust to other children at my school. I did not think about how staying home would affect my learning. Of course, my father tried to persuade me to go to school, but it still took time for me to realize how important getting my education. My father brought me hamburgers and all the food I love eating. One day when I got home from school, my...
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...Indian School Days Book Review Justin Delorme Introduction The book, “Indian School Days” is an autobiography of the author Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe native from Wasauksing First Nation, in Ontario. This piece by Author, “Basil Johnston”, gives the reader more and more evidence of the structural lifestyle of the Spanish Indian residential school. From the very beginning his writing style links the reader to never put down the book, it is full of action and true events that took place during his lifetime. The book starts off with Mr. Johnston as a young child of ten years, skipping school with another student, an act that they didn’t think would get them both shipped off to a residential school. But as fortunes and his unfortunate luck would have it, the feared Indian agent showed up to Basils door and took himself, along with his 4 year old sister to St. Peter Clavers School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, which was close to Sudbury, Ontario. With the fear of police and punishment his mother and grandmother got both children ready and there was nothing nobody could say or do to change the mind of the Indian agent. In the pages that were to follow, Basil creates many portraits of the young Indian boys who struggle to adapt to the harsh and inhumane environment of this institution. By looking at some key examples from the book that Basil Johnston wrote, it will show the reader why this would be a good book to read as his writing style is from his own...
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...My first day a school The poem describes how the little boy feels about his first school day. The boy was very nervous, maybe because he doesn't know anything about school or what school is like. I remember my first day at school, as something really special. I remember that the day before the start, I couldn't fall asleep. My anxiety hat taken over my body. The day started with my mother came into my room and woke me up, but I was already up. I had put on my prettiest clothes and I had already, the day before, made my mother braid my hair so I had curls, when I woke up. My school was 300 meters from where I lived, so I didn't have very long to go. My mother had taken he day off, so she could be there with me. When we came up to the school, where there already lots of children and parents. I clearly remember how I squeezed my mother's hand and I felt safe. The inspector said welcome and there were community singing. It was a tradition that there were community songs every year, and the inspector tell the new pupils welcome. After the songs, it was time to go into the classrooms. I was very excited to meet my new class, but I was a happy little girl, when I saw that there were two girls in my class, whom I went to nursery with. When I had found my class and everybody were together, we had to find some seats. On each table there was a note with each name on it, a juice and an apple. I went around in the classroom long before I found my name, I had to sit next to somebody named...
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...Indian School Days The School Days of an Indian Girl is a short story written in 1900 by a Sioux Indian, Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. This story is auto-biographical, detailing Zitkala-Sa’s experiences in leaving the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota to attend a charity boarding school in Wabash, Indiana. This short story was published in the Atlantic Monthly, a nationally-renown magazine with a large audience, particularly amongst progressives in the intellectual and academic communities. The Atlantic Monthly, although not a political magazine, was known for publishing stories and essays containing controversial ideas or subjects as well as great literary pieces. By 1900 the United States had been largely successful in subduing the Native American tribes. The Native Americans had either been killed, contained on reservations, or had otherwise been forced to assume a ‘civilized’ American lifestyle. Even with their success in eliminating any threat to a ‘civilized’ lifestyle that the Native Americans had posed, whites continued to ostracize them, believing they were an inferior and savage race. The Native Americans who opted to leave the reservations and assimilate with other cultural groups found in American cities suffered extreme discrimination. This discrimination severely limited their social opportunities in terms of education, employment, and lifestyle. Despite the large progressive movements in the United States during this time, the troubles...
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...productive person in society. This is story about my first day in first grade. It was a blustery Monday morning. I was awakened by my mother giving me a kiss on my forehead. The air in the room smelled stale from sleep which emphasized the smell of coffee on her breathe-it was so fresh I could almost taste it. “Time to wake up for your first day of school.”, she said. My vision started to come into focus as I slowly began to open my eyes. Magically my clothes, which were flung all over the floor the night before, were perfectly folded on the dresser. The shades on my bedroom window were drawn to the very top, aiming the early morning sun straight into my direction, blinding me. I could hear the wind outside, cool and crisp, causing me to burrow further into my blankets-interrupting my own personal cocoon of warmth and safety. “You’re going to be late for your first day of school if you don’t get moving!”. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and planted my feet on the soft, vanilla colored carpet. Instantly, I felt the nervousness fluttering through my veins. Today is going to be my first day in First grade. I was in the bathroom combing my bed head, brushing my teeth, and drying off from my morning shower. While getting ready, the aroma coming from the kitchen was mouth watering. With that first whiff, I instantly knew what riches would be presented to me at the breakfast table. I knew that today was going to be an important day in my life, but I didn’t know It was going to commence...
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...Eigthy percent of people think that Carroll County Middle School is easy. Getting ready for First Day school can be excited. You need to do go to Open House. Then you go to the Store to buy the thing and get in to a routine . Have a great in first day of school . To have a great day in your First Day of school.First thing you need to do go Open House you need your mom or dad open house . To meet your Teacher and your locker schudule in the class do paper work. You can sign some paperwork. They need to know Open House and your lunch schudule. You need your Mom and Dad to take to Walmart to buy School supplies. You need to go Walmart to for by your school . you will need paper, pen, glue , color pencils, scissor, bookbag....
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...Shorter School Days Beep, beep, beep. It’s 6 am, time to wake up for school! Do you like waking up at 6am to go to school? How about not getting enough sleep every night? Are you tired of being tired all day, everyday because of school? Having shorter school days would improve grades and improve attitudes in the mornings. Studies show minds don’t start up until about 9 am. So why should we start school so early? Children between the ages of 12 to 18 need about eight hours of sleep each night and sometimes even nine. From research, only about 8 percent of teens report optimal sleep, and 69 percent report insufficient sleep. “I’ve gone through bouts of depression’ from too much homework”, another student says. Most teens get assigned 17.5 hours...
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...Schools should not switch to a four day school week. A four day school week will cause families and businesses not to move into the community. A four day school week decreases costs at the expense of the staff. It will leave children unattended. Students of low income families may not have food at any time but school. A four day school week would take away another meal from them. Instead of 5 meals a week, they would be getting 4. According to Marcia Morris, families will not move into the community because they will have the extra costs of finding a sitter for their children. If they can not find a sitter for their children, they will have to stay at home to make sure they don’t get into trouble. This will still cost them money because they will not be at work making money. Businesses will not move into the community because their workers will either have to have a day off, or be payed more to cover the costs for a sitter....
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...Alternating the traditional 5 day school week has been debated for a lingering time. Some proposed at the four day school week can cause students to exasperate school further. However, it is not authoritative. For example, the added day can be used for proper rest since statistics show that teens sleep between five to seven hours. Thus, I am for the reason for a four day school week. Students can use the additional day to catch up on class work or rest. Schools often give students an incredible amount of homework, test, as well as quizzes each week. As a result, the students are often overworked. The heavy workload is also added to being in electives such as sports. The solution to this burden is an extra day, To relieve stress, knowing...
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...My First Day at School After a patience of six years to become the known phenomenon as a student, I suddenly felt nervousness scatter my entire body. I was lost in my own thoughts and there were nowhere to escape. The excitement and enthusiasm that had been grown since last year where my parents told me the very unknowing thing school disappeared. I didn’t want that the school should be replaced by the comfortable kindergarten with the safely settings where my friends were. I became afraid of the unconscious, afraid of the strange and I began crying. I wanted that my father immediately turned the car and drove back home, but it was too late. We were only few metres from the school. My parents told me that it would be great and that I would meet new people, and get new friends to know. I would no longer be a little boy, but instead a big boy that went to school with own schoolbag with books in it. I knew that all the things my parents told me were just for to get me more comfortable in the situation. Actually it helped especially the last thing they told me and therefore I saw a ray of hope even though the circumstances. Was it so terrible as I predicted? Maybe it was just me who was too exaggerated. I was dressed in my finest clothes and my hair was weird done with help by some sticky trash, fashionable my mother told me. N. Zahle’s School was the name of the school where I began and spent my next ten years. It was a school of good reputation where my sister already...
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...My high school stresses the phrase men for others. Everyone interprets it in a different way but it still means the same thing. It's about helping others in need and always having one another's back. I've heard kids saying this phrase from the first time I'd stepped into Fairfield Prep on my shadow day in eighth grade. I can confidently say that since that day there hasn't been one day at prep that the phrase men for others hasn't been thrown around. In the beginning of my freshman year I kept hearing the phrase and knew what it meant but didn't understand why everyone kept saying it. It wasn't until about three quarters of my way through freshman year that I really got a true sense of what the phrase meant. It was our field day which was just...
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...In this connected and networked world - where we all have information at our fingertips - that what we need is the ability for individuals to craft their own education from all the resources available. Instead of one school fitting all students, Poughkeepsie Day School, where I am currently studying at, has become a place that supports the individual in finding how, where and from whom they need to learn. Supported by abundant resources, I was continuously developing my interests in communications through the flexible curriculum at PDS, and growing vibrantly as an individual. Barring the well-rounded fundamental curriculum, I took a great advantage from the elective classes, including World Religions, Current World Affairs, and Intro to Political...
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...Ishmael walked downstairs and made his way into the kitchen. He made a several eggs for breakfast and set four place mats on the table. It had been 10 years since Kabuo’s trial. However, not a day went by when he didn’t think about it. After several minutes, Ishmael’s wife, Sandra, came downstairs with their two children, Tommy and Alexander. Alexander looked like his father. He was tall, dark-haired and very lively. Tommy was more like his mother. Small, quiet, but very kind. The family sat together at the breakfast table and talked. Ishmael had been very busy with work all week and barely saw his family. He enjoyed spending time with his wife and bonding with his children. After breakfast, Ishmael got dressed and went into town to get...
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...“School Starting For Teens Later In the Day” Could you imagine if school didn’t start until later in the day? How would high school students react and what kind of impact would play into their daily lives? If high schools’ were to start later in the morning, and end later in the day, students would significantly benefit of getting at least eight to nine hours of sleep each night. Imagine how refreshed and awake teens would feel in the morning. High schools should consider changing their hours in order to benefit not only their staff, students, but also their hopes that every student graduates because attaining a few more hours of sleep could ultimately alter the outcome of a student’s educational future. Researchers’ state that getting at least eight hours of sleep can help students be able to think more clearly and creatively throughout the course of the day. It also helps put students in a more positive mood and allows them to restore energy quicker than they originally would. By getting enough rest, teens can demonstrate a better level of understanding since their bodies are fully restored with energy, causing them to be more awake during the lessons presented to them. With students in a more positive mood throughout the day, they would get along better with both their peers and their teachers. And if one things for sure, the less teachers have to worry about… the better. Also, having high schools change school hours until later in the day can become a huge advantage...
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