Graye's Sacrifice

Junior year. My junior year I realized things about myself that I hadn’t previously known. Things I’ve never done before and things people thought I couldn’t do. Situations I thought I wouldn’t be in and there I was. Junior year, I did it.

My first day of my sophomore year of high school starts today. Riverview High School is a huge school and has tryouts for the Kiltie Band Highland Dancers today. If you make it, there is a rumor you are instantly popular. My name was posted on the short list in the hall next to my homeroom class and I am a Highland Dancer now. My best friend Theresa made it also, we have been placed in the same dance group. Even though we are only sophomores we are put into the Senior Dance Group A. This group just happens to be the best dance group at Riverview. We have been informed that we will be in the group that gets to perform at the Inaugural Parade if we make it through the cuts for the Parade.

I have been a Spring isd student since 2008. The schools I have attended are, Northgate Crossing Elementary, Twin Creaks Middle School, and now Spring High School. Over the course of these eight years I have learned and observed a variety of ways students upset teachers, specifically English teachers. If you are looking for ways to upset your English teacher, you have come to the right place.

He had finished with his business in Anchorage, so he decided to catch a plane back to Portland a few days early. He was going to surprise Natalie. Take her out to an early dinner; Champagne and candlelight, back to their place for a night of love making, slip the ring into her breakfast and ask her to be his forever.

Once cheer try outs for my senior year rolled around it was hitting me that I was a senior. We had cheer camp and I realized that was my last ever cheer camp for cheer in high school. Once school was starting and we had to get prepared for football season it really hit me that I was a senior, I wasn’t quite sure how to really take it. I didn’t think me becoming a senior would come so quickly and so fast. I can remember homecoming week like it was just a couple weeks ago, now that went by super fast and I didn’t really realize it till about a month ago. To me time fly’s by when you’re having fun, senior year is probably been the best year yet. I’ve had more memories my senior year than probably any other year. When basketball season came around

There are people in the world who are willing to fight and give their all to be able to soar like a free eagle. Julia Alvarez developed her theme of freedom in her narrative “My First Free Summer”

The summer between my Sophomore and Junior year in high school; my house got a lot more complicated than it already was. My step 3 siblings had moved in, with the oldest sibling’s child that had just turned two years old. My house already was busy with my brother and sister, sporting events and extra-curriculars. So my mom’s daily “headaches” as she would call them got as lot worse and more often: running us to practices, attending games and trying to find time just for herself became complicated.

We’re only several days away from 2017 and I’m sure we can all agree that 2016 was a really, almost unbearably, long and turbulent year for many of us. We’ve been graced with everything ranging from people becoming dogs on Snapchat to Vine being shutdown and lets not forget McDonalds introduced a 24-hours breakfast menu. Although 2016 was the worst we’re going to recap on all the good and bad things this year has given us incase you forgot.

Every student and teacher dream of having a week off of school. But many times we aren't exactly sure what to do when that time arrives. It seems like almost every year I’m stuck at my house because most of my friends are away for vacation while i'm still pondering through Netflix trying to find a show to watch, and I’ve made no effort to try and hang out with the people still at home. However, this year is my senior year, my last spring break of high school. I need to make it the best one I can. So that brings up the question, what should I do over Spring break?

Shannon remove her wedding ring from her finger and toss it. "Yes Thomas, yes! I'll marry you, when my divorce is

Today, I started my first day of Junior year at Walter Johnson High School ! I was happy to get up in the morning, knowing today i’ll be able to put my brain to use and have a reason to get ready. I was curious to find out who my teachers were this year, since all the names of the teachers I saw on my Edline were unfamiliar. My friend, Allyson picked me up for school in the morning, wearing her senior girls shirt, while I was happy to see her, it made me also very sad to come to the realization that she was going off to college soon, which will leave me feeling a lonely next year. When I finally got to school, I was annoyed to find out that their was little to no air conditioning in the school on a hot day. I went to all my classes, and was

“I do” she smiled as he took her in his arms and kissed his bride, sealing their fate. They walked up the aisle arm in arm as the music began once more. After exiting the main ceremony Atlas spotting someone in the shadows. The crowd began to exit; Atlas took this opportunity to become lost in the crowd. Occasionally muttering thanks to those who spoke congratulatory words. When he reached the hall where he had seen the figure, someone tapped him on the

It was a warm spring day. I woke up to my mom opening my curtains saying that “I need to get up and not sleep all day.”

My early years of high school were the greatest years of my life. High school came with a lot of new things, varsity sports, driving, and even spending more time out with friends. Even though most of these things are everyday normal activities now, they were brand new to me in my early years. I discovered and made routine of many new things throughout my first three years of high school. School work, activities, and even sports were entirely different in high school compared to junior high. Although I wasn’t used to the life of a high school student, I caught on and began to love it very quickly.

It had been a busy Friday. I came home from a long day of high school, and I was so excited because for once I didn’t have a basketball practice. On top of that, I had plans to go on a date, I was always so busy that I never went on dates. This wasn’t just an ordinary date though this just so happened to be ‘the most popular guy in school’. I was very excited, but after school all that I wanted to do was go home, get a snack, lay down on the couch, prop my feet up, and relax for a while. Maybe even take a nap before I got ready for my date. I did just that. I got home, skipped the snack because mom was making dinner, laid on the couch, and was slowly drifting into a nap when all of a sudden I heard a big bang, crash, and then silence. I jumped up, and ran to the kitchen. There was my mother lying on the floor, with hot grease burning her, and food all over the floor she had just cleaned earlier that day. I helped her up, and took her to the bedroom where I proceeded to help her clean up, putt burn ointment on, and told her, “just relax mom, I’ll take care of it.” She just sat there so ashamed. This was a normal occurrence; my mom falling. But this time there just seemed to be something a little bit different about it. Usually mom won’t relax, and she’ll keep going. I examined my mother walking to the other room. Her walk worse than usual. I had a lump in my throat as I asked, “Could I examine your ankle, and leg? She said, “I guess. But I am fine.” I rolled up her pant leg,