Personal Narrative: My Band Journey

there is a fork in the road and we must choose what path to take. My road came to a fork at the beginning of my eleventh grade year. At the time I was actively involved in the marching band and I led a youth bible study once a month. When our school hired a new band director, she told me that I could not miss band practice to teach my bible study. She told me that the band needed me at practice, and that I should make band my first priority. That night I knew I was going to be forced to make

County and found that Boyle County High School was my desired school of choice, my parents found themselves continuously urging me to join their band program, specifically marching band. I had previously been in band at my former high school, located in an exceptionally small town, in which a quality music program was not necessarily valued, much less a competitive marching band. A few days preceding my official start of attending this brand new school, my guidance counselor promptly decided to give me

marching band is structured like a story. A beginning movement sets a mood and an introduction to your show. Then comes a slow ballad that addresses a turning point in your story. Finally comes the closing movement, your resolution. My opening movement revolved around the theme that college was a lost path, however it was the path I desired to endure to give back to my parents. Growing up in a Hispanic community, I was raised with a preconceived notion that college was not vital for my future. It

for a marching band, not a life-changing experience. It was about a week before my first year of high school started. My mom was reading the newspaper after breakfast when she showed me an ad calling for 12 to 18 year olds to join a marching band. I loved to play the glockenspiel, so I immediately jumped to join the band. I called the number and got the date, time, place, and a brief synopsis. A week after school started, we drove to Pickering High to sign up. Turns out, the band was part of the

for the high school honors band. I wasn't very aware of the audition piece and I didn't take the needed time to practice it. The day of the auditions, I entered a large gymnasium full of talented high school musicians from various schools in the region. I realized all of these incredible people have dedicated a lot of their time to the auditions. I knew I didn't put in all the time I actually needed to orchestrate this piece correctly. I didn't make in into the honors band, but I was affected greatly

For my AS production I followed a set brief. I was required to work in a group to produce a 3 minute trailer for a new horror/thriller movie. In my A2 advanced production my brief was to work within a group in order to produce a promotional package to introduce a new band into the mainstream music industry. The package could take any form, using a variety of medias. We started the project by doing individual research into the music industry. Through my research

Personal Narrative My dad means the world to me, he has taught me everything he knows to become a great son, brother, and follower of Christ. One of the greatest gifts my dad bestowed upon me was the gift of music. As a kid my dad became engulfed in music. He had a passion for music and he knew that it would be something he would love. On July 14th, 1983 my dad went to Journey’s Frontier Tour, it was general admission in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. My dad pushed his way up to the stage

Personal Narrative At the start of my last year in middle school, a transfer student from China who was unfamiliar with English mustered up all her courage, approached me, and introduced herself with the best English she could manage. This action would later on welcome me to witness her world of resilience. Her name was Amy, and throughout her journey through eighth grade, she faced a lot of adversity with peers around her. No matter how difficult the obstacle was, she had always pushed through

novel, “My Life with SDS and the Weathermen Underground,” is a narrative about Rudd’s life when he was the leader behind the notorious SDS movement, Weathermen Underground. Rudd’s novel was published in the year 2009 and shows readers the hardships Rudd faced leading his organization. This novel can help readers learn about the hardships some anti-war movement leaders went through during their fight for peace. Crow Dog’s novel, “Lakota Woman,” is a personal narrative about Crow Dog’s journey to find

Part of the essence of a book lies within the author’s writing style, and this is remarkably exemplified in Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’. Morrison journeys an innovative route whereby she alternates between first-person narratives of different characters from one chapter to another, an element that brings readers a deeper insight into the characters themselves. Nearly half of A Mercy is told – or rather, written – by a slave girl named Florens, who is on a mission for her mistress. Morrison changes