Graduation Speech : Singing And Dancing

Topic: President Barack Obama is praised by some and ridiculed by others; however, he must still serve his purpose of leading the United States of America. In 500 words or less, describe how you will lead the Big “D” Marching Band Auxiliary Drill Team if selected to be an Officer for the 2016-2017 school year.

I was a dancer for fourteen years, beginning at the age of four and ending at the age of 18. I participated in basically every type of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, lyrical, and contemporary. Each year, I would participate in more classes than the last, and it eventually got to the point where I would be attending dance classes five or six days of my week. It definitely got tiring, but I still loved it. Dance is a great way to be able to portray emotions through movement, and I think that is very unique and special to participate in. It was a very huge part of my life, and so were the people teaching me. Dance and everything that came with it was a huge influence on my life, and it helped shaped me into the person I am today.

Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.

Today you would have been 60! I can only image the shenanigans we would have gotten into tonight! I miss you more than words can even explain. This morning, I sat in my car, scrolled through my phone, stopped at your number, and almost dialed it. It has been almost 8 years since you passed, and I have yet to delete your number out of my phone. I realized that I could not just pick up the phone and call you as I used to. I wish I could go back to being a little kid driving around looking for garage sales during the summer and listening to all of the Motown Classics. I did not realize it until now, but you honestly were my best friend, there is a spot in my heart that has been empty since you left us. It dawned on me that losing you made it hard

We are not sure whether you are aware, but Hannah is part of the Young Voices of Colorado and performs in two of their professional choirs: Signature and Concert Choir. She is also on the choir council and is a Sing a Mile High Ambassador. Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with you? Well, she will be given complimentary tickets as a “thank you” for all the extra, over-and-above work and time that she gives. She is aware that you are musical and has expressed her desire to give you two tickets but feels shy about asking whether you would like them. She does not know that I am contacting you, in fact, she may be mortified that I am--she is funny that way. Anyway, if you are interested, I believe I can convince

Hello! My name is Taelor Nebel, and I am a ninth grader at Sartell High School. I was a part of the drumline in the marching band this past summer, and played bass drum. Since then, percussion has really sparked my interest, and I’d like to take my knowledge of the subject even further! I will be attending the “Music Major for a Day” event on Thursday, October 20th, and am interested in scheduling a lesson and time.

That’s good. I know about the P.T. because when I was in Postal school they made us do P.T. with the AIT students, talk about getting smoked with the young kids. That’s good to hear that you have the highest average in your class, when I reclassed to 42A I made the list for Honor Grad right before the Unit deployed back in 2014. I wish you the best of luck on making Distinguish Honor Grad. I’ll keep you post on anything that’s going

As I began to prepare for this Transfiguration Sunday’s sermon, reading and praying my way through the texts, at the very back of my mind a song began to play. It began as I read the Exodus passage, Moses face shone after he was in the presence of God, so much so that he hides it with a veil, the song, just a few notes moves around the image of Moses like a whisper, reflecting the peace of God. A murmur of a melody, not yet distinguishable.

May 5, 2016 was one of the happiest moments of my entire life. That was the day made possible for me to see a live performance. It was my very first time and have to admit I was super exciting entering the auditorium. Marymount Dance Department presented the 2016 Spring Repertoire. I felt so proud walking in as a dancer watching a live performance. The show began and my heart skipped a beat. Marymount’s Dancers At Work presented in a beautiful manner that drove into their movements. There were numerous moves that we did that they presented in their routine. I was most proud when I saw one colored dancer in the piece Regality. She performed incredibly well I began to move along with her. There was uses of high jumps, releve’s, plié’s, pirouette’ and many more. I was not sure what the dancers were doing, but all I Knew was that I needed to be on that stage doing exactly what they did.

This project was exciting to complete, as we rarely have prepared anything like this before. Beginning by looking at the roster of students, I was able to recognize how I would group the students. I knew, however, that I wanted to avoid groups larger than five students. I also understood, from the ideas of many education classes that the best pedagogical solution would be to include a mixture of performance levels. Because of these implications, my first set of groupings consisted of the grade of the student, followed by a break down of their level.

Signing up for encouraging critical and skillful thinking class I was really excited at the possibilities I could learn as an educator to share with my students. Every day in my math class I am trying to show students how I approach different math problems. I go step by step explaining my logic behind every move I make and emphasize why I am making these very specific moves throughout the problem. To me, I feel what I am doing is very cut and dry but somehow there are students who get lost along the way. Maybe it is the way I present the material or it could be that our thinking does not line up. To some students Algebra is very stressful and it is almost a self-preservation class, meaning students fall back on prior knowledge and

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.

When you see a shy, quiet girl, performing is not the first word that comes to mind yet, here I was auditioning to be on the competitive dance team. I walked into the studio on a Saturday morning; those were the same doors I’ve walked through for multiple years. With my black leotard, pink tights, and hair in a perfect bun, you would never imagine how many butterflies were in my stomach. Doing something I'd never think of doing was thrilling until I walked in and saw other girls in black leotards, pink tights, and hair also in a bun. The only thing that differentiated us were our audition numbers.

"Hurry up, this girl hasn 't got her makeup done yet. Please! Someone come over and help her! There is only half an hour left before the final rehearsal on the stage."

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.