Gnome Good
I don’t think that I will ever be able to forget middle school. For me, middle school was not the easiest time in my life. I had just moved to a new town and I wasn’t the best at making friends. Trying to form new friendships, while also starting middle school was not an easy task. I had just started the sixth grade at a new school, with new faces, new classrooms, and a new teacher. I had a typical schedule for a sixth grader, nothing too difficult. Social Studies, Science, Gym, Math, and my least favorite, English. Although I enjoy English now, I can’t say that I always have. At that point in my life, English was something that I was not good at and thought I would never be good at. I worked hard in class and tried my best, but
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As a sixth-grader, I had what Dweck refers to as a fixed mindset. In her TED Talk The Power of Yet, Dweck states, “if you get a failing grade, you think, I’m nothing, I’m nowhere”. In other words, Dweck believes that students that do not receive the grade they want, immediately consider themselves failures. The concept of failure is prominent in an excerpt from On Writing, by Stephen King, a popular writer from Maine. King states, “Now that I was away from the administrative offices of Lisbon High, I felt able to muster a little honesty. I told Mr. Gould that I didn’t know much about sports”. In making this statement, King leads us to believe that he is afraid of failing. Similar to Dweck’s idea of fixed mindset, King presents a fixed mindset towards his ability to write about sports. King is afraid of failure and is, therefore, afraid of letting Mr. Gould down.
Even as an 11-year-old in middle school, I struggled with the idea of failing, and I think that is why I was so afraid to have my narrative critiqued. I could not accept failure.
“Interesting”, she said as she read my story. “This makes absolutely no sense; you have gone from one place to another without any explanation as to how your characters got there.” Laughing, she remarked, “Courtney, this is gnome good!”
My face got hot and I raged with anger, in that moment, I felt complete hatred for my English teacher. In my mind, I was a failure. I wanted so
I was about to face my greatest challenge in my new life. How to fit in with people in middle school. Arriving in America was already hard to adjust, what more can it be with my school life. It was in August when my school started. I was already nervous, and I haven’t even step foot from this mysterious school that I’m about to spend 2 years of my life.
book after book. All titled Middle school, the worst years of my life, how I survived middle school, middle school get me out of here,and the list goes on . As I was nearing the end of fifth grade, I started seriously thinking about how middle school would be and got worried after hearing of so many stories of people's terrible middle school years. However, I have to admit it really hasn’t been all that bad these last three years and in fact, middle school may have been my favorite, compared to elementary school. With more freedom, more people, more homework, more activities, more teachers, more fun classes, more excitement, more everything quite frankly, I have been able to have . I am sure a lot of us have fun throughout these middle school while learning more about yourselves and the people around us each year. I am sure many of us have been able to say for sure that we have had many experiences that can prepare us for the future.
Middle school was very fun though and it matured me a lot for high school I also learned a lot of things in middle school that have helped me in highschool I also still have some of my middle schools teachers now like Ms.Bowen that was my favorite teacher in middle school she was very cool. But that’s how my middle school years
After that moment, I no longer saw myself as an intelligent kid who was unable to fail, but one who was and could be challenged by failure and challenged to learn from my mistakes. After revising the essay, I received an “A+,” yet this was not what made me happy. The fact that I, the twelve-year-old boy who had previously rejected failure as a possibility, could accept failure (by my standards) and use it as
My first day of middle school was all over the place. I had more classes then I did last year and had no idea where to go. My new school was 2 floors tall. I went up and down stairs over and over again. I didn’t know where my locker was or the combo. I was so not ready for middle school at all my life will never be the same because I will have multiple classes and teachers.
Middle school is full of good and bad memories. After being here for four years you develop all sorts of memories that you may not even want to remember. There is one memory from my eighth grade year that I will never forget. Being a water girl for the middle school football team was one of the most exciting extra curricular activities I did.
Failure, at its core, is a road that leads to success; that leads to achievement. Personally, I never looked at it with that perspective until my second year of high school, where I received my first ever term grade of a C. To me, a C was no better than an F, an absolute failure in every sense of the word. It felt like the end of the world. Even so, within this whirlwind of self-hatred, I learned something that helped me improve little by little: how to make the best of a bad situation.
Everyone will encounter failure on their way to success. Without failure, we cannot grow and succeed – it teaches us how to improve ourselves. In history, for example, Abraham Lincoln went through many failures before becoming one of the United States’ greatest presidents. He was demoted quickly in the military and lost many elections in his career, but continued to work until he had risen to presidency (Wilson). Another example is J.K. Rowling, the famous author of the Harry Potter series. She went through many struggles in her life, each time adjusting and eventually working her way up to huge success and wealth (Gillet). In her book, Very Good Lives, Rowling describes how to embrace failure and improve yourself. There are many other well-known people in history with similar experiences. Walt Disney was fired for a lack of imagination, Sir Isaac Newton failed to run his farm, Thomas Edison was fired several times for being unproductive, and Albert Einstein had difficulty in school – all of these people and many more, at some point of their life, encountered failure and had to learn to accept it to achieve success. In my experience, this also applied in school. Although I always went for the highest grades, there were some times when I had a string of low grades. I learned to accept failure and learn from it, along with adjusting to change, to work my way back up to success in
In my experience working at a Middle School with a huge diversity I have seen several difficulties that the students who come from a bilingual home have had to go through. One of those difficulties that stands out to me is the issue with the different dialects. There is a very big difference between an American dialect and a Hispanic dialect. The different dialects differ in their rules about pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
In 2016 I started middle school. It was a large change i was lucky to go to a school in the country. The main things that middle school changes are school changes your mental and emotional state changes, along with most of your friends. I will explain how to help you get through middle school The time of changes and advancements. you go from a kid to beginning your journey to adulthood and the long life after.
Middle school is a tough few years for many students.You are in a difficult stage in life, you’re finally not a child anymore but are not yet a teenager. Being stuck somewhere in between is hard and with that time comes a lot of challenges. When I was in sixth grade,I was the same way, trying to adjust to switching classes,multiple teachers,friends changing and many other hurdles to overcome. I felt however that I like everyone else would overcome it and be just fine. I had an average middle school career, until I was sitting in math and slowly things were not as I saw them.
All too often we let life’s failures control us. It starts in childhood, and in my experience, people have two general responses to failure: 1. Give in and accept that you are “a failure”, or 2. Work harder to prove (if not only to yourself) that you are NOT a failure. The problem with these human reactions is that both of them can be dangerous to us in the long run. An example of the first response is a young girl who tries out for the cheerleading squad; she is nervous, and does not do well. Instead of trying again, she listens to the harsh criticisms of the other girls, and the critiques that were given by the judges, and she decides that cheerleading is just not for her. She could have succeeded, in fact, she could have been one of the
This is Juan Cerrillo, the assistant project manager writing to you on behalf of the Project Manager, Ralph Smith for the Gutierrez Middle School extension and renovation. Mr. Smith and I will oversee and direct the fulfillment of the extension and renovation of the middle school building construction project. A few challenges have been discovered that will arise once school is again in session. However, we have already developed a solution and would like to explain some of the obstacles we may run into in the future. We would also like to discuss how our teams may cooperate with one another in order to create the safest possible conditions for your middle school student body.
Middle school was not the best of years, especially 8th grade. 8th grade was most definitely not the best school year I had ever had. It started in 8th grade when a new kid came in to my class. I had been talking
Middle school for many kids is a crucial period in their lives. At this period of life, kids are experiencing a new change and being forced to be aware of certain attributes about themselves and others. While being more independent than one is in elementary school, it can be very difficult for children who face certain problems at the middle school level. There are many issues that are going on in middle schools across the country, that are affecting children each and every day. Since middle school is known to cause depression, self-isolation, self-esteem issues and aggression, it’s very important for parents and teachers to be aware of these issues and formulate a suitable proposal for these issues (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006). This essay will throw some light on some of the major issues which are faced by the children at the middle school level.