Middle School Academics

However, junior year of high school changed that: I was given the opportunity to take either AP Psychology, or AP European History. I felt that the obvious choice would be to take AP European History, since I’m European and therefore already had a solid foundation for succeeding in the class, but something inside me told me to take a blind leap of faith and choose AP Psychology instead. This choice proved to be one of the greatest decisions I have made in my life. Through this class, I emerged myself into the world of psychology and fell in love with it. I didn’t complete the assignments to get a good grade. I completed them because I cherished every minute of it, and I started applying the materials learned in class to real life

6th grade is a hard year. You’re the leader of the school. Theres many things I want to accomplish before middle school. One of the things i want to accomplish is to be really good at math and do good on all the tests.

You have to be really careful because here in middle school you can get write ups really easy and tardies.

I am currently teaching 7th grade Literature, Language Arts, Social Studies and a few Extended Learning time activities such as CSI and World Cultures. My responsibilities include these classes and more. Our grade levels each have a day of the week that we will supervise the hallways, we also have a week every few months that we will supervise outside to make sure our students are getting on their buses and staying out of trouble.

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.

During my two years in middle school I was always getting decent grades. Every Time the teachers would talk about the tests they will like give us the answers or break the question down for us. Our teachers never liked to fail their students so if they did fail a test the students will get a retake. The only way you could get the teacher upset is if you tried to cheat on someone during the test. I was sometimes lazy when it came to having to write an essay on simple topics. The reason of that was because if you did not complete the essay on the due date my teacher would feel bad and give me extra time. I would be friendly and kind to all my teachers so that if I did not

Many students worry about how their middle school years will go. Middle school is a very important part of a student’s education. Middle school is their initiation into high school and could really impact their future. Many elementary school students think that they are prepared and can do well in middle school, but many are not ready. Also, students who do not do well in middle school tend to not do well in high school. One lesson I would like to teach elementary school students is how to survive middle school, which is important because it will lead them to a better future by being prepared, managing time, and knowing how to problem solve.

By the time September rolled around students have forgotten what classes they registered for. My school liked to move past things as quickly as possible. To elaborate, each student would receive a book with every class the high school had to offer, regardless of grade and prerequisites. Then, each student had to return a specific form with all the classes they would take within a week of attaining the book of courses. Knowing which class to take and how it would affect your next four years was a shared mystery to all the incoming freshman. While a flowchart detailing how the mathematics classes lead into each other was provided, all other classes looked as if they would never relate to one another. What the school failed to express to us is that once a student is put into a class, there is no switching out or dropping the class if the class proves too challenging or too easy, the class you take the following year has already been determined, and that if you want to try something new, you had better take the prerequisite early. As Rose wrote, “school can be a tremendously disorienting place” (127), and the absence of communication between students and the rest of the school verifies this disorientation. The illusion that students have a choice in how their education grows is perpetuated by a system that thinks it knows best.

Something that changed me when I went to middle school was becoming more responsible. Keeping up with my books, remembering what class to go to, and keeping up the homework assignments that were assigned.

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.

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.

My topic of choice is eLearning within my school district, East Noble School Corporation. More specifically, within the Middle School. I am looking to answer questions pertaining to student resistance to eLearning. Using a qualitative approach, my design of choice would be narrative research. I would gather information gleaned from interviews with students.

All through Middle School and High School I had to juggle my academics with my

When I was younger my academic history was pretty good. I made A’s and B’s throughout time. When I got to 4th grade that's when my grades started slipping. 4th and 5th was when I struggled the most I struggle in history and math. Once I got into middle school my grades started getting better and I went back to my regular grades A’s and B’s.I knew that it was time to help myself up so I worked really hard to get good grades in 6th grade. Throughout middle school I did really well I was proud of myself on how well I did. Then I went into High school which just shooked me up. I didn't believe high school would have such high expectations and the amount of work we get is very significant. Of course I'm still trying my best to maintain my grades

In junior High School, things started to turn around for me. Although I was still placed in lower level classes, I developed a love for learning. In the years to come from Junior High to High School, I had a strong urge to make up for lost time. One class I started to excel in was the one I used to have the most trouble with, Mathematics. It seemed as though the once boring and complex equations now seemed meaningful and simple. As I progressed into 8th grade, I was able to advance to normal classes. I felt that the hard work I put in was finally paying of. At this point, I felt that I could handle a higher level. At the end of 8th grade, I took the necessary procedures and tests to try and get into honor - level courses in 9th grade. After taking a summer course of Algebra 1 and several tests I was able to succeed and take the classes. The experience was great. I felt that I was finally going the right direction