Personal Narrative: My Sophomore Year In High School

to make until their senior year of high school. I decided to venture on my own in order to better my future. Sophomore year, I started attending a residential high school for top performing students in the state of Louisiana. Over the past three years, I lived alone while my parents have traveled all over the continental United States therefore learning how to take care of myself at a young age. Additionally, in a diverse learning community such as the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts

volunteered at SAVE animal shelter during my four years in high school. During my Sophomore year I interned with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. As an intern I trained and recruited volunteers, registered people of all parties to vote, canvassed and phone-banked for the 2016 Presidential election, ensured that voters had transportation to their polling place, and watched the polling locations to ensure the safety of all voters. During my Sophomore year, three of my friends and I reinstated the club

Leading into my sophomore year of high school, band was the center of my life. Providing social acceptance and a sense of purpose, I could always count on the fine art to get me through the drudgery of high school. Everything seemed to effortlessly go right. I naively believed my desires would always be provided for, as I was somehow the special (albeit, shy) exception. With this idea, I felt invincible going into my first serious audition. Unknown to me, this simple, six hour event, provided the

My Sophomore year of high school my teacher signed me up to take the Accuplacer for college classes, I took the test with no hope of passing. I’m the type of person to not really have hope in myself, I doubt myself way too much. it was only an accuplacer test for college classes, to some people that’s not important but to me it was, my parents had talked about this to me since my freshman year I had “friends” telling me I was not going to pass it because they thought it was going to be “too hard”

My sophomore year at Buena High School has had a large impact in my life from the sports I’ve played, the people I met, and the knowledge I have gained. This year I played tennis and rode mountain bikes, both of which were for the school. In doing these sports I have met many amazing and talented people that will forever have an impact on my life. Also there is the knowledge that I have gained from my teachers and fellow peers that I will use in the following years to advance my education further

form of personal expression. The quality of one’s writing can be the difference between whether they are hired for a job, get acceptances for scholarships, or whether or not they are able to communicate their emotions in a healthy way. In my relationship with writing, my preferred mediums have changed and my skills as a writer have transformed drastically, with skills I once possessed as a young writer diminishing due to a lack of practice. Due to my lack of practicing creative writing in high school

interest in music and poetry, sparking my interest to learn to write like musicians and poets. Up until that point, I had always been writing papers for school, often to write research papers or to write forced narratives. I never wrote anything for myself until about junior year in high school. I did always enjoy reading intriguing narratives that others didn’t enjoy though, so that’s exactly what I wrote. Even senior year, I was assigned to write a narrative story based around Arthurian legends;

courses throughout my high school career, my teachers followed a relatively challenging curriculum. Every year, I was expected to write every one of the following types of texts at least one: argumentative, analysis and narrative. I have always considered English to be my best subject because not only was I enticed by it, but I was also excelled at it. Below, I will reflect on a few of the most honorable pieces of writing from my four years of high school. I will highlight my strengths, weaknesses

variable s have to do with a student’s outcome; those variable are background, personal motivations, and environmental support. Consequently authors completed this study to examine motivational characteristics and environmental social supports make important contributions to a student’s outcome. Sampling and Data Collection Methods In the study completed by Downs, Phinney, and Chuateco, researchers

During his presidency, Barack Obama said that by the year 2020, America would have the highest college graduation rate. In Michelle Obama’s speech, “Remarks by the First Lady at Education Event with DC High School Sophomores,” she speaks to students at Bell High school. These high school sophomores come from many different social and economics backgrounds. Many of these students do not live privileged lives and cannot afford higher education. Obama discusses the importance of college education and