Journal Entry: Jamie

To many freshman the first day of high school is the opening chapter of a new novel, a fresh start to a sometimes embarrassing middle school experience we would all just love to erase from our memories. August 13th, 2012 was the beginning of my four year long narrative at Cypress Bay High School. Despite my desperate desire to grow up, become an adult, and move far away from my parents for college all that did not seem possible because I had never previously attended a public school. I was struck with fear that I would not be able to adjust to the fast pace dynamics of a large high school.

“High school is going to kill me” (Lubar 32) said Scott on his first day of school. In Sleeping Freshman Never Lie, Scott started high school, which was not the only big change. He starts off school trying to win Julia’s heart, doing every activity she does. It doesn't work out too well though. Without knowing them Scott usually judged people on their appearance or how they acted. He also realized that his mom is acting pretty weird, and come to find out she is pregnant. Since Scott is having such a hard time in school he decides to write a journal for his new sibling. His friend group starts to change dramatically. His three best friends he would always thought he would have go off and do other things. Scott changed the most in Sleeping Freshman Never Lie because he became less judgemental, and made new friends.

Amber is a young teenager who had her mind set on her goals of going to the "Big Apple" and becoming a journalist. She was dating a guy named Brandon but had recently broken up with him. She started to have severe symptoms of pregnancy and was not on any sort of birth control. She and Brandon had slept with each other the night of graduation without any protection. All the while, she was having an embryo growing inside of her uterus and becoming a fetus.

On September 1, 2012, I walked into my fifth grade teacher’s classroom for the first time in my life. Mrs.Cullen was standing in the front of the door with open arms ready to welcome her new fifth grade students. As I made my way to my desk and sat down next to Charlie Schutt and Quin Timmerman, I got the feeling that middle school would be a time of talking to some of my best friends and cruising through classes. As the school year progressed, and classroom seats changed, my thought of how Middle school would be changed as well. On the first day Mrs.Cullen explained our schedule, Homework detentions, and demerits. After about fifty questions, she sent us off to our first class, and the first step of our Middle School journey. The fifth grade

The character Gaby Rodriguez in the novel The Pregnancy Project, written by Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer, changes throughout the years and understands what it is like to be living in a world of stereotypes. Living in a family filled with past generations of teen pregnancies, Gaby was often told she would end up like her sisters. From other people’s perspectives, this was a family tradition. As her senior project, she faked a pregnancy to get reactions from her friends, family, and the community to see how she would be treated. Gaby went through many hardships to understand what a teen mom has to deal with on a day to day basis.

“I don’t want to go to school today,” Laurianna declared. She paused to see if her mother would start up a speech or insist that she go. Laurianna was a freshman at Versas High. Even though it was mid January, she was pretty nervous about starting in the middle of the semester and being behind. “Well that’s no way to start off your second semester in a new school” her mother exclaimed. She could hear her mother babbling about making new friends in the other room, but she was more focused on what she was going to wear on her first day. She had always dressed comfortably but still strived to keep up with the trends of her old classmates.

Title Name Institution North Country and Boys in the Hood North County. The film start in 1989 when Josey Aims together with her children moves out of her abusive husbands, to live with her parents. Josey’s Hank thinks that she is promiscuous including the towns people to.

She told John that she was raped by a former friend; and that she decided not to abort him. She also told him that that man had passed away since then. John, however remembers one day when he was young an angry neighbor referring to him as a son of the streets; something he did not understand then. Peers tease him with the words that his mother is a “slut”. His peers are constantly telling him that his mother refuses to tell him whom his father is because there are so many men involved that any or even a ‘combination of them’ could be his father.

As any other freshman entering high school it can be a very nerve racking situation. On September 8, 2015 I Chelsea Gonzalez was entering high school in Thurgood Academy Of Learning And Social Change , my mind was going crazy and I didn't know what to expect. I have always asked myself whether high school would be similar to what appeared in movies; people dancing and singing on top of the lunch tables or, was it going to be a 4 horrible school years in which I would never make friends. I clearly remember seeing kids running toward their group of friends, as I walked down the lunchroom. My hands were sweating and it felt like a million butterflies in my stomach. The room was filled with cries of laughter, kids running back and forth asking each

Walking into school on my first day of high school, I felt out of place. My face covered in acne, my teeth covered in braces, and the callicks in my hair stuck up through the abnormally thick layer of hair gel that coated them. My middle school social anxiety still ruled over me as I could barely speak with any member of the opposite sex. Yet, I still had an odd confidence about me. I had always been one of the best students in my class, even without ever studying for a test. I viewed high school as a slight uptick from the curriculum I had easily passed in middle school. I was wrong. High school exists as a microcosm of society, in which I originally failed to acclimate myself to the challenges posed to me in a setting of increased

In the holidays she sees Roger. She feels strange after she has slept with Bill. Alice takes pills to feel better. She feels horrible and tired. She is afraid of being pregnant but than her period starts.

Everyone is shocked, including her housekeeper, Terry. But Molly isn’t surprised, Vivian knows that there is a whole other world out there using the internet. Which of course leads Molly to searching for Vivian’s birth child. A few clicks here and there guides Molly to a website where Vivian can put in all of her information with hopes of Vivian finding her child. “If I decide that I’m ready, will you help me?” (Kline 266). Vivian decides to go through with the website and later receives a phone call from the adoption registry and tells her that they found a match for her daughter, Sarah Dunnell. Terry was totally surprised when the adoption registry calls and that is how Terry finds out about her daughter. Molly later convinces Vivian to reach out to her child, she ends up talking to her over a Facebook message, and leads to her child being at her front door foot steps months later to finally meet again. “Vivian puts her foot on the first step and stumbles slightly, and each person moves toward her, as if in slow motion” (Kline

The first year, the time to prove myself had arrived. Classes, rooms, teachers, and some students were unfamiliar. Eventually, minutes melted into hours, hours to days, and days to weeks. It didn’t take long before my schedule was routine, something of second nature. Humor and happiness were found in the form of my advisory family, where school was transformed into something more than going through the same motions of day to day activity. By the closing point of sixth grade, I was having a hard time letting go of what I’d adapted to. “What’s wrong?” my dad asked when I was getting into the car after being picked up early on the last day. I explained how distressed I was that my first year of middle school exceeded my expectations, and that it had to come to an end. Although his outlook viewed my reason for sorrow as trivial, I didn’t.

It was around ten o’ clock at night when Karen’s roommate walked into the bathroom and realized Karen was giving birth. She heard a gush of water that

When Chelsie was 17, she moved out to Denver, Colorado to be with her mother. This was a significant time in her life due to absences that her mother had taken throughout Chelsie’s childhood, and adolescent years. Once she arrived in Colorado, Chelsie enrolled in a new high school to complete her senior year. Half way through that year, she met a man named Gavin, who became the love of her life as they developed a relationship together that they would forever cherish. After earning her high school diploma, Chelsie decided to seek employment. Soon after, Chelsie was faced with a life changing decision, when she realized that she was pregnant at 18. Supportively, Gavin and Chelsie stuck together, knowing how drastically both their lives were about to change.