Attention Grabbing Step: After years of writing papers, doing homework, taking an occasional pop quiz, and of course taking countless exams, it is that time that we all anticipate…Graduation! Purpose Statement: Since the majority of us are seniors, and graduation is a little less than a month away, I am going to provide you with some historical background information and some fun facts about graduation in order to make the occasion even more meaningful than it already is. Road Map: Most of you could probably agree that high school was quite the experience with several ups and downs along the way. No matter which direction you seemed to be heading, the end destination for everyone is graduation. Need Step: Sometimes referred to as commencement, the graduation ceremony serves many purposes. Mostly, the ceremony is considered a rite of passage and marks a transition from one stage in a student’s life to another. Typically, friends and family of the graduate gather to celebrate the occasion. In a recent United States survey, $985 was the average amount spent on graduation celebrations. I guess you could say graduating is a big thing! Although most understand the basic concept behind graduation, have you wondered what the history behind the ceremony, cap, and gown is?
Satisfaction Step: According to Yahoo answers.com, the origin of the graduation ceremony began in 1432 at Oxford University. While each ceremony may have small differences, most ceremonies share many
High school Commencement in the United States is a tradition like no other. Every June, high school seniors dress in their Sunday best and head to the tried-and-true ritual. Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles swarm to secondary institutions with their cameras in hand. With the sea of hats and gowns, the graduating class is unified and united. Over the recent decades, Commencements across the United States have incorporated cords and stoles. These emphasize both communal and individual achievements throughout students’ secondary education and their community. At Chisago Lakes High School (CLHS), these achievements are recognized at Commencement with a variety of cords. Students who participate in the National
Ah, Graduation. It seems as if it’s a long way off from today. However, that does not mean that we should not construct ourselves for the best career changer of our lives. Even though, I am not much of a partier, I do know of a few venues I would like to remunerate myself with family and friends in attendance. I know I may have to have at least two parties. My home away from home is Pensacola, Florida. So it's just essential for me to want to have a commencement party with my friends residing in Florida.
The day all high school seniors have been longing for: graduation. After dealing with all the trials and tribulations of high school, these graduates proceed with their lives. Many paths will open up for these young people as they begin taking the steps to integrate themselves into society. Many will start working straight out of high school. Some may go to a trade school and pick up work after.
The time went on and March got closer, my time had finally come, A DATE!! March 24, 2014, that is the day I would graduate. More phone calls with my best friend ensured me that I
Graduation has many meanings for it; however one way to look at graduation would be the transition from youth to maturity. Graduation in another point of view could be the transition from one chapter of someone’s life to another. Most people would consider their childhood the best time of their lives. Some could also recall a part of their life that was a new chapter for them, or that it changed their life in one way or another. The journey from youth to maturity however, is ruthless, inconsistent, and can be a good time for some; others, not so much. Poems such as “To an Athlete Dying Young,” or “An Ex-Basketball Player” and award winning movies like “Holes” and “High School Musical: Senior Year” all relate to the celebration called graduation
Graduation. We have done it, we have all made it through 4 years here are Anderson High School. It’s a weird feeling leaving a place you have spent so much time in. seven hours a day for 180 days of the year for 4 years…that’s a lot of hours. All that time doesn’t even include the time we have spent here for sports, clubs, or other extracurriculars. And although it may not seem like it now, all of that time spent here has been well worth it.
Graduation: the official ending of high school. For some, graduation could not come fast enough. For others, it is the deadline for deciding what to do with his or her lives. Memories of graduation can vary since they can be held at different times of the day. For me, it was early in the morning. Great. I remember I woke up early and got dressed up and waited for my family to be ready. But since it’s my family, it doesn’t matter how fast we go. We are always late. What can I say? Running late seems to be a genetic trait in Hispanic families. Trust me. So we rush over there. I throw on my graduation robe and run ahead of my family because they also have a knack for being incredibly slow when I happen
The graduating Class of 2015 quickly learned that college really is the best time of our
The best part about my graduation is that I had the chance to see the pride in parents’ eyes when I received my diploma. It was a priceless moment when I finally achieved one of my goals and was accepted in pre pharmacy program which made my parents even more proud and now I play my favorite track
I am an 18 year old emotional teenager named Kate Blankly. The feelings of never walking the halls to get to class, the mini-social groups at the lunch table, and the dreaded face of teachers will never reoccur in the same process as I have already experienced. Explaining that high school is not necessarily your ideal “perfect” four years is what I am here for. I have learned many life lessons through the fun, yet tiring times when the world was fresher and I was a
We all look forward to that one day that ends our high school careers, graduation. You have finally made it after all of the hard work you have put forth. But, now the question is, what´s the next step?
Our graduation is our coming of age, our right of passage. As we walk across this stage we are writing the closing pages to our Chapter I and heading into the great unknown. It's kinda scary -- but hey, don't you cry, even though high school is over, the times we've shared and the friends we've made will never be lost. The clock is ticking, time is fleeting and nobody lives forever. But true friendship is something we can count on never dying. I hope wherever we go in life it will be happy and even if we all move to remote island countries we can all count on the memories and laugh at all the stupid things we did.
Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.
Hello, we would like to welcome and thank all of you for being here with us tonight to celebrate our high school graduation . It truly is an honor to be surrounded by so many significant people who have impacted our lives immensely throughout our highschool years. We would like to thank the wonderful people here tonight that we have the privilege to call our parents. Whether you are a mother a father, grandma or grandpa, or an aunt or an uncle; we are here, graduating today because of all of you.
The phrase goes "As one door closes, another door opens". That truly is the case for high school seniors around the globe, especially around this time of year. High school seniors take those steps across the graduation stage, symbolizing the end to their high school experience. Of the many graduations (preschool, elementary school, middle school, junior high, and high school), one still awaits for those seniors continuing their education. Graduating from college, by far, has to be the most important and most rewarding. Choosing the school, the degree, and the final career, that walk across the stage at a college graduation symbolizes adulthood, stability, job security, and an end to the years and years of schooling. When high school students are looking for a college, there are many things to consider and investigate, but there is one thing that stands above all the rest, and that is the on-time graduation rate of the school.