Junior High In the summer before seventh grade, I spent most of my time hanging out with my friend Lili. We swam in my pool, we went to races together and we took a lot of pictures together. We also liked to make videos of ourselves dancing when we were home alone during the day. Another fun memory is when I tried to teach Lili how to ride a dirt bike.That was an awful idea. She almost rode the dirt bike up the side of the garage. The second time she tried she got out of control and about hit the…
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The most significant challenge I have faced is my lack of effort I put into school because I felt like I was smarter than the rest of my peers, Most of my Junior High and High School career has been spent not putting in effort into my classes and cruising because of my natural talents. Because of this, I nearly consistently got a 3.6 GPA since about the 7th grade while procrastinating on all my homework. I first started to get complacent with my school efforts when I was very young, I was always…
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a seventh grade student at the Mid-Valley Junior High School on Albert Street in Dickson City, PA. I was a member of the Mid-Valley Spartan Band. We had band practice after school. We were learning music for our spring concert. The Mid-Valley Spartan band was comprised of seventh through twelfth grade students. Seventh through ninth students attended the junior high school in Dickson City. Tenth through twelfth grade students attended the senior high school in on the corner of Susquehanna and…
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It was a regular cold morning of August and everyone was exited for the beginning of the school year including me but as soon as the bus arrived to Estacado Junior High, eight grade school at the time, two thoughts started to wonder my mind "what am i going to do?" "I don't know anyone here?" making me sick to m y stomach. It wasnt just any first day it was my first day ever attending a school in the United Statesafter I moved from Mexico a couple of moths before school started. I didn't know…
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imposed upon them. Their differences lie in the way they express leaving the reservation, conception of literacy, and ideals of love. In The Absolutely True diary of a Part Time Indian, Junior is a fourteen-year-old Spokane Indian living on a reservation where he has few opportunities to pursue his dreams. Junior has an assortment of different physical disabilities that exclude him from his peers. He decides to leave the reservation and transfer…
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Sooner or later I knew that I was going to be taking IUPUI classes by my Junior year of high school, ever since I was in seventh grade at Crispus Attucks; neighbors of IUPUI. For the reason that Crispus Attucks High School challenges their students academically, I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into…
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Narrative Essay The transition of a high school student to a college undergraduate is a life-changing experience that most youths go through. The course that led to this transformative event began on the first day I entered high school. Attending a technical school for four years was the best decision I could have made. It prepared me for the real world while simultaneously providing me with the skills needed for college. My first year in high school was like moving into a new city and trying to…
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In my high school career, the most interesting course I have taken is AP English Literature and Composition during my Junior year. Being a higher-level course, this class challenged me as a reader, a writer, and a thinker. While we read similar novels to other students around the country, such as The Great Gatsby, Othello, and In The Time of the Butterflies, the way my instructor taught us to apply the readings and lessons to everyday life seemed out-of-the-ordinary. AP English Literature and Composition…
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Semester One In the first semester, reading a novel was challenging for me. It was challenging to read a novel because I never invested so much time in a book. In other classes I would just rely on a partner or friend to catch me up on the story, but this year I really put time to read the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The timing in class was hard because in other classes I was so used to turning in assignments at anytime but in this class it was a challenge to do my work on time. At the…
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reservation life that he describes as both bleak and hopeful, yet heartrending and uplifting. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a coming of age story written in first person narrative from the perspective of fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr, better known as “Junior”. As the title suggests, the narrative has a confessional quality, revealing feelings to the reader through the use of verbal and visual language. He introduces his hardscrabble life on the Spokane Indian reservation in the…
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