Honor Roll Student Analysis

Coming from a new country I had to face many challenges. All these challenges made who I am today. When I came to the United States in 7th grade, I barely knew how to speak English. The language barrier posed a serious problem for me. I found it difficult to interact with people. Adjusting to a new country was no easy task. When my family and I came to this country, we knew only one other family. It was even more difficult for my parents who knew virtually no English. They had to learn how to work and provide for me and my siblings in this entirely new country with a completely different culture. Despite having a better background in English, it still took me over two years to become fluent in English. Although coming to America and having

Arriving in a new country was exciting and discomforting. America is a wonderful place to live, which is full of adventure and challenges. I was attracted by the Western culture. Meanwhile, different languages also troubled me. Although I began to learn English in elementary school from ABC, my listening and oral abilities tend not to be adequate. I have to study hard to improve my English, so that I can understand what the people said.

My entire family was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. After three and a half years of living there my family decided to seek a better future in The United States. My father would go to the United States back and forth to work and earn money to send to us in Mexico. Eventually my mother was able to get a visa and my brother along with my little sister had an alternate way into the United States. We lived in Dallas Texas and Atlanta Georgia before settling in Howard county Maryland in a very small apartment. Luckily we were doing pretty well with my dad being the only one knowing English at the time. My father was working two jobs and I was getting ready to start kindergarten. I was very excited because the education we would have received in Mexico was nothing compared to the education in Howard County. I was excited for what was to come, but there were disadvantages of knowing only Spanish. Being bullied because of my poor English had an impact on me. I was in completely separate classes learning things that were simple compared to the regular course. I was excluded from certain activities, field trips and assemblies. I was clueless at first though as I slowly learned the language I understood things a lot more.

In Honors English (3rd and 5th), ask students to turn in yesterday’s assignment. They have a test on “A Problem” today, so they should log into their pearson accounts online and take the test. I will check their scores and put them in Skyward asap. Once their test is finished please have them read pages 78-79 in the literature book. Their assignment is to read “Like the Sun” (pgs 80-84) and “The Open Window” (pgs 85-88). They should be looking for instances of paradoxes and irony during each reading. They need to complete the critical thinking questions on pages 84 and 88.

When I first started school, I remember how difficult it was for me to make the transition from Spanish to English. My Mom left me at the door of the school in the morning, but since I was placed in an English-only classroom, the next time I opened my mouth to speak to anyone was when she picked me up again that afternoon. I didn't know what anyone was saying around me, and to make matters worse, my teacher didn't speak a single word of Spanish. That day, like every other day, I came home crying because I felt like an outsider. That year was very difficult for me because I ended up in the back corner of the classroom not participating. As a result, I had to take several years of summer school in order to catch up, something that

I was able to understand my reading and writing. So as I caught on with the others kids in my class I stared to like participating with others. By the time I knew it had many friends and they could understand me. Well as time came my elementary years ended and then came the middle school years. I was a little hesitant because even though I had been here for four years I had a Mexican accent.

Being a Mexican-American, who was raised in the small town of Encarnación de Díaz – located at Los Altos de Jalisco, MX, – and then moved at the age of seventeen to Corpus Christi, TX, was not a smooth transition. The most difficult things I have encountered in my life must have been speaking a new language and adapting to a new type of living. I was fortunate enough to have amazing teachers who taught me to read, write and speak in English back in Mexico, but I was still not confident enough to speak the language when I arrived here. Although, many have told me that my English doesn’t sound as if I just moved here five years ago, I still believe I have so much more to learn.

I watched my mom somehow get 2 jobs and go back to school to provide for my family and to also learn english. I learned a lot of English by watching movies before attending school in America , but still had difficulty talking to my peers and them understanding me. That did not stop me from challenging my self and bettering my english. Though out the years I now realize that here

As a Richland Collegiate High School student, I am always attacked by stressors in my academic life. The stress provoked by school-related objects often bled into my home and social life. It created an unhealthy environment where I felt weighed down by the stress. Due to the stress, I often lost my appetite and started sleeping less. My mother worried that I was depressed or that I was developing an eating disorder, but I just did not know how to pick myself up and just get things done. I lacked motivation, self-control, and a healthy balance of work and relaxation. Throughout the course, I have been picking up on some of the strategies I can use to help alleviate my stress and subsequently improve other aspects of my life.

First of all, my biggest trouble was the language. I did have learn some English while I studied in Mexico. However, it was not the same as coming to a country or school where the primary language is one that is not yours. This created in me a huge insecurity and impotence. For example, while the first classes I took, it was so hard for me to get what the instructor said which made me feel I was never going to success regarding to learning and getting good grades. However, with effort it has been changing.

It was not easy for me. Kids would always make fun of me and they would not care how I felt. I struggled day in and day out trying to learn English. My mom would always stay up late at night helping me with homework and trying to the best of her abilities to help me. She did not know a lot of English, as well and for her to help

Thank you for informing me this serious matter. As a Bryn Mawr student, I fully understand the vitalness of honor code that has connected us through trust and respect. I am suprised that you found potential violation of honor code in my final exam, because I totally against all types of behavior that tempt to break academic integrity. I took this self-scheduled exam on Tuesday May 10th at 7pm session in the lower level of Stoke and I was sure that the environment was safe and suitable for my open-book exam. I assume the similarity, if the other student is Haowen Dong in our class, might because we reviewed and went over the problem sets and ppt together the whole day. Some of the questions are not that straightforward and identical to the process

One day, I woke up with the need of a change. I was determined to learn English, I did everything I could. I tried twice as hard in class and outside of school. I had some really compassionate classmates that helped me out and even to this day they are still my best friends. I would watch TV shows in English, practiced reading, and listened to music. By the time I was in the third grade, I was fluent. After everything I have gone through I have managed to keep my head up. I was always taught to be independent but never be afraid to ask for help. By that time nobody in my family spoke English. I never had any help with homework or anything related to school. I am really thankful for everything God, my family, and teachers have done for me. A stranger would need to know that my life experiences have made me the unique, strong and confident young lady that I am today. I now feel unstoppable and I will always go after what I deserve and remain

One of my biggest accomplishments was being able to understand, speak, and write English. I came into this country at the age of nine, and it took me about 6-8 months to understand the language, but it took me three more years to start speaking it and writing it. It also took me a while to start speaking it because of fear. But I remember that I wanted to be in conversations with others and that they would be able to understand me without asking me to tell them in Spanish. My process to start speaking English was different. I would watch TV shows and would start to pronoun every word exactly as the actors did, and I remember just staring at the TV and trying to speak as proper and clear as they did. Getting comfortable with the language, short

I never thought I was going to be in Florida. It impacted my life tremendously. I knew I had to learn a different language. My English level was steady. I knew I had to improve my English. I worked on it twice as hard as when I was in Mexico. In school when people talked to me and asked questions, I was afraid to answer back, because I was unsure if I said it wrong or not. I had to overcome it and pronto. Making friends in school was easy, because I guess they are curious where I’m from or wanted to know my name in Spanish.