...Lessons Learned Life hurls many different things at us. People that appear and disappear from our sights, and choices between what we believe to be morally right and wrong. It also has the tendency to teach us lessons that we will live by for our entire lives. Sometimes the lesson is taught to us by a parent or maybe just an event or series of events in one's life. To me it happened in a series of events with a bunch of unique people. This specific family has changed the way I look at life and taught me many things without me even realizing it. Every day has a lesson that most of us can not distinguish. We just brush it off like it has no meaning in our lives. After three year of knowing this family there has been multiple things that...
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...A Lesson Hard Learned Everything in life happens for a reason. Regardless of who you are, or where you’re from; your plans are not always going to work out. Now while some obstacles will seem relatively insignificant, others seem insurmountable when you come face to face with them. Sometimes this will put you in a rut, with encroaching thoughts of desperation and fear. These situations and the solutions that you come up with are the things that make you who you are. Today I plan to share with you a situation in which taught me the very valuable life lesson that those closest to you can be the ones that can hurt you the most. So this whole ordeal starts in the incredibly distant year of 2010, which was my first year at Crain’s Creek Middle School. This was the first year in that I realized how lonely life could be for the teachers pet. Up until the sixth grade I had rarely stepped out of line, and was more focused on impressing my teachers than meeting kids out at recess. This obviously affected me later on down the line when I was wearing my novelty Spongebob tee-shirt and Crocs, while the other kids were wearing American Eagle and Converse’s. I continued down my...
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...Have you learned lessons the hard way in your life before? Don’t worry, I have as well. It’s very common to learn lessons, it’s a part of life. The hardest thing is to overcome obstacles, I learned from my experiences. This year, I started high school and I had a different idea about it at first. I knew that high school is about schoolwork and completing school to go on to live a successful life. Once I got here, my point of view changed drastically. It started when I met a certain someone, my crush. This wasn’t like an ordinary crush. This hurt me and it costed me my grades. It started when I had to go to a band orientation for my brand new school, West high. He was seated towards the front whereas I was sitting towards the back, wearing that striped shirt I loved on him. While my brand new band teacher was giving a speech about band, he kept looking behind him, mostly at me. I plastered a little smile on my face and waved a friendly wave at him. He blushed and turned away to keep listening to my band teacher. This confused me, I had no clue who he was and it made me feel a little weird. That wasn’t the end to his strange behavior. I had marching band with him, and I couldn’t help but take an interest in him. I was way too scared to even speak with him. One day at lunch, I was sitting with my friends and I told them about my feelings towards...
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...Over the course of my high school career, I have taken on a multitude of leadership opportunities and one thing that is has gone unnoticed is the amount of sacrifices I have had to make behind the scenes. Everyone wants the limelight, but it takes a true leader to selflessly sacrifice their time for the betterment of others. I found the value of selflessness to be one of the most beneficial lessons I have learned in my life and will surely aid me in all of my future endeavors. One of the activities in which I took on a prominent leadership role was the DECA club as sought the president position and was voted in by my peers. I had numerous new ideas and initiatives I wanted to introduce in the club. The first major lesson I learned was the...
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...CLRC Writing Center Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay “Narrative” is a term more commonly known as “story.” Narratives written for college or personal narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some tools to help you structure your personal narrative, breaking it down into parts. The “Hook” Start your paper with a statement about your story that catches the reader’s attention, for example: a relevant quotation, question, fact, or definition. Introduction Set the Scene Provide the information the reader will need to understand the story: Who are the major characters? When and where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction? Thesis Statement The thesis of a narrative essay plays a slightly different role than that of an argument or expository essay. A narrative thesis can begin the events of the story: “It was sunny and warm out when I started down the path”; offer a moral or lesson learned: “I’ll never hike alone again”; or identify a theme that connects the story to a universal experience: “Journeys bring both joy and hardship.” “Show, Don’t Tell” Good story telling includes details and descriptions that help the reader understand what the writer experienced. Think about using all five senses—not just the sense of sight—to add details about what you heard, saw, and felt during the event. For example, “My heart jumped as the dark ...
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...CLRC Writing Center Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay “Narrative” is a term more commonly known as “story.” Narratives written for college or personal narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some tools to help you structure your personal narrative, breaking it down into parts. The “Hook” Start your paper with a statement about your story that catches the reader’s attention, for example: a relevant quotation, question, fact, or definition. Set the Scene Provide the information the reader will need to understand the story: Who are the major characters? When and where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction? Thesis Statement The thesis of a narrative essay plays a slightly different role than that of an argument or expository essay. A narrative thesis can begin the events of the story: “It was sunny and warm out when I started down the path”; offer a moral or lesson learned: “I’ll never hike alone again”; or identify a theme that connects the story to a universal experience: “Journeys bring both joy and hardship.” “Show, Don’t Tell” Good story telling includes details and descriptions that help the reader understand what the writer experienced. Think about using all five senses—not just the sense of sight—to add details about what you heard, saw, and felt during the event. For example, “My heart jumped as the dark shape of the brown grizzly lurched...
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...wife”, both authors write on personal encounters they experienced. The author chooses two different methods of writing styles. E.B. White utilizes a nostalgic reflective descriptive piece, whereas Brady uses a more sarcastic narrative. Arguably both writers do a great job in their story telling skills. Both stories are respected and pleasing, yet similar but different at the same time. The authors’ choice of writing style is what gives one story more of an advantage to the other. Though descriptive and narrative essay have identical intent – to tell the reader a story- narratives are more effective in capturing the audience because the uses of different voices, they bring ideas into perspective and they are relatable. There are special components that both style of writing possesses. Narrative writing usually does not stress adjectives to give the physical details of characters, setting or events in the story. Nothing like descriptive writing, narrative writings are written in the first person in order to convey the author's attitudes, beliefs and memories. Narratives are conventional, while descriptive writings content often emphases on a single event, object or place. Occasionally, writers utilize narrative writing style to tell about the past or the future in broad terms. A narrative often reflects personal experience, clarifying what happened during some sort of incident. Narrative essay topics include recounting an experience where the learned something significant, such...
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...In The Alchemist, a narrative by Paulo Coelho, we follow the journey of a young shepherd named Santiago. Santiago refuses to follow his expected path to priesthood, and instead, he embarks on a voyage to find a treasure he dreamed about. Along the way, he meets many important individuals, faces many obstacles and trials, and learns important lessons. This narrative is told in third person and shows us the thoughts and maturation of each character. Though this story has many themes, one theme that is constantly reinforced by the characters in this story is that, by listening to our omens, we can unlock our personal legend. We are first introduced to omens by Santiago’s mentors. Though Santiago gets many omens from beginning to end in The Alchemist,...
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...pastiche in Perfume by Patrick Suskind demonstrated how these elements contribute to the development of the novel. The purpose of allegories throughout the book is so that Suskind can provoke an emotional response from the reader. He puts hidden meanings in the novel to incorporate his personal views into the novel. Suskind uses Grenouille as a parallel to himself when he makes comments in a tone resembles Grenouille. On page 177, Suskind gives a long description of a beautiful women, but in the last sentence, he describes, “-her teeth like pearls and limbs smooth as ivory-and all those idiotic comparisons.” Even though the narrator is omniscient, his remarks are similar to Grenouille's apathy toward physical beauty. The next topic discussed was parable; a short, simple story, illustrating a lesson to be learned. Often Suskind intertwined parables to stray away from focusing on Grenouille so as to create a narrative distance. Often times creating a background for his next victim, or the epilogue to their life after Grenouille had left it. No real lesson was learned by his victims, and that's the point Suskind is trying to make to the audience. By juxtaposing traditional lessons learned with Grenouille's utter apathy, Suskind presents a conflict with a man against his society. Although rare, at some points in the novel, Grenouille learns something about himself. His decision to isolate himself from the smells of society and humanity allowed him to learn that he has no...
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...Developing Multiple Intelligence – Learning Styles (MI-LS) – Integrated Lesson/Unit The following steps given by Harvey F. Silver, et al. is coined in the acronym IDEAS: 1. Identify the type of lesson you wish to teach and specific standard(s), outcome(s), and objective(s) you want to address. In this step ask self these questions: a. Am I developing a lesson: i. Using learning styles and multiple intelligences to achieve specific content objectives? ii. Focused on the development of particular styles or intelligences? b. Am I developing a lesson: i. That’s part of a year – long curricular theme? ii. To teach a specific objective? iii. To address a specific student need (i.e. for a student educational plan)? 2. For each intelligence, develop a list of possible learning opportunities for students to achieve your objective(s). In this step, ask yourself the following question: (V) How can I incorporate word, writing, listening, discussion, language? (L) How can I incorporate calculation, problem –solving, reasoning, math? (S) How can I incorporate art, video, graphic organizers, icon colors? (B) How can I incorporate manipulative, hands – on learning, use of body? (M) How can I incorporate music, musicality, beat, lyrics, and sounds? (P) How can I incorporate cooperative learning, partnership, role playing? (I) How can I incorporate emotion, reflection, self – assessment? (N) How can I incorporate interactions with the natural...
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...Author Annie Dillard, shares a story of a morning after Christmas. She was seven and decide to go outside with her friends. They played this game where they made snowballs, and waited for a car to pass so that they could hit it. Something went wrong. Annie threw a snowball, and it hit the car. This time it was different; the man got out of the car and chased them. The man didn’t give up, and he caught up to them. He told them they, “you stupid kids.” Oddly, after being ran after for a long distance, Annie was enjoying this moment. Annie said that if that man would have killed her in that backyard, she would died happy. The story doesn’t start off right away. The author begins with sharing background about herself. She explains who she is...
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...Which Essay is Better: A Narrative or A Descriptive? Ever read a story and say to yourself, “What’s happening?” Whenever I read a descriptive essay, that’s what I would say. In this essay I would be comparing and contrasting two types of essays, a narrative and descriptive. I have chosen “Are the rich happy?” by Stephen Leacock 1916 and “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou, n.d. By writing my essay, I want to give my views on each and decide which I would rather write. Narrative Essay A narrative essay reflects a personal opinion that is based on your own experiences. This helps you bring a reader into your very own mind and shows him/her the topic you’re writing about through your eyes. Telling a story or event the way it happened for you. It also could provide a sort of lesson or moral to be learned from the outcome of the story as well as what the writer did that contributed to it or not. It’s more on a personal level that any one reading could say that happened to them or that they learned from the story by not doing whatever it was that the writer did. In Stephen Leacock’s “Are the Rich Happy?” the author writes about his experiences with his friends, with of modest income. Most of it, all in his opinion, points out the problems or troubles those with an existential amount of funds in their bank accounts. He goes on to give some examples that he encountered several of his friends going through. “A friend of mine who has ten thousand dollars a year told me the other...
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...(including videos, blogs, biographies, articles and more). * Go beyond the easy/obvious sources for information. * Complete coverage of the topics, with insights that go beyond simply reporting facts. * Well-crafted document, with logical flow and clarity of view * Excellent grammar, punctuation, composition and professional style. * Including correct use of citations. Overview of contents * Executive Summary: Overview: Summary of key findings and analyses * Section 1: Describe the leader's childhood narrative. What early experiences contributed to their becoming a leader? Why were these experiences important and/or impactful in either positive or negative ways? * Section 2: How would you describe this person's leadership style (or styles)? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the styles they use? How has their leadership style made an impact on the course of their career and personal life? Did their style change? If so, how and why? If not, why not? * Section 3: What would you say are the key contributing factors that led to this person being a successful leader? Why were these factors important? * Section 4: What are the...
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...do social values construct a culture? 3. How do oppressive social values affect Marji’s society? 4. How is Marji affected by outside culture? 5. How does Marji’s perspective, as both the main character and the author, influence the reader’s opinion of Middle Eastern culture? Students will know (content objectives for unit)… (K) 1. Comic Book/Graphic Novel terminology 2. Visual elements used in comics 3. Basic principles of Islam 4. Novel-specific Iranian history 5. Basic information about communism 6. What social parameters lead to oppression. 7. Various elements of “culture” 8. Several examples of social values 9. The themes of Persepolis 10. Examples of biases that occur in Autobiography/1st person narrative 11. Examples of stereotypes the author draws upon for stylistic effect 12. Examples of literary archetypes 13. Rules for citing comic books in student writing 14. Specific requirements for making inferences 15. Elements of an effective claim sentence Students will be able to do (process skills required for unit)… (S) 1. Use correct graphic novel reading skills to maximize comprehension. 2. Discuss concepts like oppression in the context of the novel. 3. Evaluate the relationship between culture and social values. 4. Create concept maps and character charts to track Marji’s character growth over the course of the novel. 5. Cite Persepolis using correct MLA formatting. 6. Explain inferences made from the text in verbal class discussion...
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...PREFACE Adam Jefferson, a divine manifest of Adam Smith's materialism and Thomas Jefferson's idealism, is our troubled modern day hero. He awoke in the middle of his life - broke and lost. A serial entrepreneur, his life was a never-ending quest for material success. At age 38, as Joseph Campbell forewarned humanity, Adam had "climbed the ladder of success, only to realize it was propped up against the wrong wall." Alone, with nothing else to lose, Adam Jefferson climbed down off of the ladder and searched for the wall of his future. This led him on a 100-day odyssey to start the ascent of his new life, an epic journey which called him across the world discussing today's challenges and opportunities with the great minds of our past - Carl Jung, Mary Parker-Follett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and many others. An act of their collective genius and magical combustion, a psychological and sociological theory for sustainability and success was formed. Like all heroic quests, Adam ended where he had begun. Prior to his expedition, Adam had an unforgettable encounter with one of the great minds of the 20th century. One freezing, early morning on January 17, 2009, Adam Jefferson met the famed Harvard psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They walked the beach in Winthrop for hours, discussing morality and the questions one ponders in the solitude of despair. They exchange woes - "You tell me yours, and I will tell you mine."...
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