Timed Writing: A New High School Football Field What is black and gold, that carries tradition? Saber nation! Here currently at Franklin High School, we are clearly maxing capacity and in need of a new high school. Considering the history of this school, and the low quality facilities provided to student athletes, it’s about time something is arranged into place to rejuvenate a long living tradition of success amongst nearly all extra-curricular activities. There is something about being a
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Lake Brantley High School, I think of Altamonte Springs, Florida, and the suburban community of Longwood, Florida. Lake Brantley High School is where I graduated from. There are numerous memories that I cherish from attending Lake Brantley High School. Proceeding to my senior year I decided to transfer schools for basketball purposes. Little did I know that I would have the best school year of my life. In this memoir I will give a brief rundown on how great Lake Brantley High School was for me.
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Write 2-3 page essay describing a special person, place, memory, event or experience from your life. Draw upon the five senses – sight, sound, taste, smell, touch – and employ the use of simile and metaphor. Your essay must have a thesis, in which you explain or allude to why this event/person/place is important to you. What is the personal meaning? Has your feelings on what you’re describing changed over time? Descriptive Essay Rubric and Grading Considerations • Correct spelling, grammar
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on and so forth. It was finally time to start the school year. Remember I had so limited English that I could only say “Hey how are you?” and say “yes and no”. That is almost true for every non English speak. School started and homework was the toughest thing I had faced for the first couple of weeks. I was failing all of my classes. Everything was so new to me and I had to somehow adjust to it. I got to a point where I didn’t want to go to school because I felt like an idiot. I was like a deaf person
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transformation in America’s schools. Persistently high dropout rates are indicating that teachers are enable to motivate and interest their students. Children are loosing their ability to think creatively and on abstract level due to the lack of arts education in schools today. If children were provided with arts education they would have higher test scores, would be more likely to go to college, and less likely to participate in criminal activity. Students who graduate from high school are products of a very
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and to do that they need to be properly educated so they can achieve their goals in life. No matter what someone chooses to do in life, they will have to deal with numbers at some point. Numeracy is the ability to understand and work with numbers. School curriculums are frequently updated and expect students to know higher level mathematics at younger ages. With the increase in difficult mathematics that are being taught to students, it is hard for many students to keep up because “According to the
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Date : Feb / 22 / 2013 Name : Tay.Jo Jim’s class 4A Cause and Effect Essay Do School Uniforms Restrict Students’ Freedom? What do baseball players, flight attendants and even restaurant’ clerks have in common? They all wear uniforms to do their work efficiently. School uniform requirements have been controversial among students, parents, and school officials. Do school uniforms restrict students’ freedom? Some students and parents believe that forcing students to wear uniforms ignores their
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powering through the mountain of work, my phone buzzes twice, indicating I had a text. I look over at it and see a text from my friends back home in Dallas. I can’t help but smile and look over and see a screen shot of a picture of all 5 of us back in high school during our F5GNO sleepovers. The picture is of us posing altogether in front of Cheesecake Factory, thinking we were the coolest people to walk on earth. At the time, being only 16 years old, we felt like we ruled the world. “Are you guys
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of it. “Reading to me is a way to learn and see things in other perspectives” (Shoemaker 349). This is impactful to me because growing up reading was an escape when I found a book that interested me (which was rarely often). At the start of my high school career I discovered a book called “Looking for Alaska”, by John Green, which was a romantic mystery, and made me have a different outlook on books. Looking for Alaska was a rather difficult book for my reading level, but the amount of relationship
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Imagine a hall of all your memories. Now envision yourself walking along this hall, gazing at the glimpses from your past. In my hall of memories, they are separated into eras by color- yellows and greens representing the happy and content memories of my early childhood, blues and pinks for the bittersweet experiences of my high school years, multicolored and full of vigor and emotions in my most recent recollections, and red emptiness extending into the future that seems simultaneously and oxymoronically
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