Getting Ready For Middle School

One piece of advice that I would give to an incoming high school freshman would be that you should not worry about what other people think about you. You do not need to impress anyone and you most certainly do not need to try and change yourself for that person. There will be people in your life who try and make you do things that you normally would not do and maybe are not comfortable with. Do not let someone change you. If that person does not like that you do not do something that they do, or act how they act, chances are you probably should not be hanging around with them.

Everybody has their breaking points. At a young age I was forced to endure mine; only to find that there wasn’t much of a break, but more of a point. With puberty, came a variety of changes: physically, mentally, and perspectivally. As a child, sexual abuse is not fathomable for many, and in most cases, are utterly traumatizing. Entering middle school in the midst of the abuse brought countless days and nights dedicated to realizing the situation that I was in was, indeed, perpetually toxic and morally wrong. Although this was a traumatic experience, I chose, with great pride, to discuss my knowledge that I acquired during this time.

Middle school is known as a time to mature for high school. For me, there were many changes I underwent after coming to the middle school.

Do you like going to school I don't but here's how I get ready for it. I get ready for the first day of school is by. Going shopping , going to open house , and then I have to get into a routine for school.

I am writing because I have some advice I would like to offer you based on my own experience. I’m writing this letter to help you get prepared for middle school and survive middle school. There are three ways you're going to survive middle school.

Jr. High can be a nasty place. Notice how I said can? You control how you are going to handle it. A very important thing you need to have is study skills. You need to pay attention in class and not slack off or you will not understand what you’re doing. Procrastination is also a huge issue in Jr. High and that is not a trap you want to fall into. Without academic success, middle school can turn into a dark, dreadful place. You won’t want to come to your classes anymore because they have become exceptionally demanding. Having study skills will help you succeed and maybe exceed expectations. If you study for every test and quiz and you do all of your homework right when you get home, your life in Jr. High will be so much easier. Take it from me, a professional procrastinator myself; do not keep your homework until the last minute and have good study skills!

Keeping up with my books was a big transition going into middle school. In elementary we just carried a backpack, but in middle school you carry quite a few books that are too heavy to lug around so you need to use your locker. Getting into your locker is another big deal, but I am not going to get into that. Remembering what class to go to is going to be a big deal. If you are late you will get detention. In elementary they don’t really enforce that rule. In middle school you attend eight classes, and you only get four minutes to

So, you want to know how to survive middle school? Well I can help you. Being a middle school student, you pick up a couple tricks along the way. Then sometimes you can even find or hear tips, now a lot of the tips and tricks usually come from a teacher, but you will discover some on your own that will make Middle School a bit easier. Throughout my time as a middle school student, I have definitely found so many tips and tricks. Now some tips and tricks are just plain sense, but you don’t always utilize these tips.

There is a certain potent quality to the transition between middle and high school; many make it through this transition. I apparently, wasn’t good enough for that transition, and I didn’t get in. I also didn’t even apply for the spot, so this not getting in thing made no sense to me on the first day. However, later on, I discovered that it mattered a lot more than I had first thought. Mostly because it basically sealed my fate for the rest of my life. Suffice to say, I am the single unluckiest person in this whole school. Unrivaled by anyone, I win the nonexistent title by a landslide every single year. And I absolutely hate it. But don’t be mistaken, it’s not that I don’t enjoy being alone, I absolutely do, it’s just that they constantly tease me for it like I actually care. And everyone should know by now that I don’t care. Aside from school, I really have no reason to unhappy. But that’s just it, I am always unhappy. And maybe that’s why the kids at school pick on me so much. Either way, life has dealt me a pretty pathetic deck of cards. And today is no different from any other day, it’s exactly the same. I wake up with a frown on my face, completely and perpetually uninterested in every little thing that I have to do that morning. I weave around my family, all bustling and happy, half-asleep and all smiles. And then I drive to school. A school surrounded by trees and fog. It was as gloomy as my mind was. And so I get out of my car. And then I go to class. And then the

Finally entering middle school, In band we sat where ever. Christmas came and my first ever band concert, but our seating was already chosen for us that night without us knowing. There, walking towards the seat that have our names on it, with a smile on my face excited to play but my name was nowhere found in the front row. I went to the second row, nothing, and then the third where I found my name. I was last, the very last flute ensemble seat. As I sat, my throat become hard, my chest beating like it was angry, my face redder then red. I was not just angry but a word beyond furious, because I was last seat, it wasn’t fair, I remember practicing so hard and I didn’t even get to show what I got but then I was put last. Throughout middle school,

Growing up in a city like Reading is not easy on any child, especially when you are the minority. This city is composed of 87,893 people, and of these people only twenty nine percent of them are Caucasian. Over half of the people living in our city are Hispanic, making up fifty nine percent of the population. Being part of the twenty nine percent can make a child feel different or left out while they are growing up. Children strive to make friends and to fit in with other kids their age. In my case it was not always the easiest because of a cultural barrier, or even a language barrier. Starting school is a scary for everyone, everyone fears the unknown. But when you enter school into a classroom full of people unlike yourself, is when the nerves really set in.

Rule one: focus on the important things. Right as you get into high school, things are thrown in your face; notes, homework, quizzes, etc. It is essential that you are prepared for all of this. High school moves fast

I went to Middle School in Knob Noster Missouri for half of Middle School, then moved in the middle of 6th grade. I started Middle School when I was 10, in 5th grade. It was unusual to start Middle School in 5th grade, but at the end of 4th grade, the school education board said that there wasn’t enough room in our elementary school, so they moved the 5th grade to the Middle School. We were the first 5th grade class to experience Middle School in the whole community. I felt older and cooler than all of the other 5th graders before me. When I came in on the first day of school, we made a time capsule and buried them in the supplies cabinet, instead of outside because it was against the rules to dig up school property. We brought in some things that were really important to us, and put them into a large pringle container. The neatest thing that we did was cut a piece of string as tall as us, then at the end of year we would do the same thing and see how much we had grown in that year. I had grown 1.5 inches that year. I was also the tallest in the class back then.

Nationally, practitioners, district leaders, and parents are concerned about the transitions that occur with sixth graders in middle school. Some parents worry that sixth graders in middle school have increased behavior concerns, peer pressure, and a significant decline in academic achievement. According to the data findings in the study conducted in Iowa (Linnenbrink, 2010), the research suggests that it is common for students to experience challenges while adjusting to a new environment; however, not all groups of students experience a negative relationship between building transitions and test scores. The students that transitioned the most in this study experienced the greatest negative relationship between test scores and building transition.

Going from elementary to middle school is hard. There are lots of things that are different between the both of them. Math, Science, Soc-st, English, Reading is all things I learned this year. There's more I learned besides Classes I learned about middle school sports and activities outside of my main classes. There are many things I learned and I hope that I learn more Things next year.