What I Have Learned Being at Hickman School for ten years has been a great experience for me. I started going to preschool at the Hickman house in the year 2006 and I slowly moved my way up through the years till finally this year I’m an eighth grader. Over the years, I have had many friends and teacher come and go. My teachers helped me to understand new concepts while sports and my friends helped me understand more about myself. That is what I like, don’t like, and so on. When I first started
I feel ambivalent as this year comes to a close. To quote Mr. Fouts, “The end of this year just doesn't feel right”. Eighth grade went by far too fast, perhaps because the year went particularly well for me. In this year of my nine so far in school, I felt bonded with my peers like no year before. With the people I met I collected many memories and Good Riddance by Green Day is made up of lyrics singing about just that. The phrase “good riddance” is generally used to say goodbye to something rather
subject for me to learn as I sometimes, do not understand equations that the teacher wants me to know. Through this situation I would have problems with homework and tests that have to deal with the class subject math. That is where perseverance would come in and help me through with this subject and would be able to make me a better math student. In the eighth grade I would always hate math because I would never understand it and would receive a lot of different grades such as C’s, D’s and if i’m
Ever since I could remember I had been labeled the learning-disabled child and asked myself what if I challenged that label. My story begins sometime around the end of my seventh-grade year when my band class had been offered the opportunity to march as an eighth grader in high school marching band. Where that small opportunity would challenge me academically and mentally eventually leading me to be the person I am today. Beginning what I now know was the first step to accomplishing my personal goal
amazing school that I have had the privilege to attend for my seventh and eighth grade years. Throughout middle school, my greatest academic year has been eighth grade. I believe this is because I was more motivated to study, I learned how to manage my time, and I was more organized. When I primarily started eighth grade, I came in with more motivation than I did in seventh or sixth grade. I recognized I needed to work especially hard this year in order to impress the high school I wanted to attend
observing the students in my classroom, I focused on how engaging and motivated they were. The eighth graders at Pine Forest did not have a good seventh grade math teacher, so the students are very behind. They know that they are behind because Mrs. McLamb tells them all the time. Instead of it discouraging them, it motivated the students to want to learn. They know that they must catch up, so I saw the students trying their best to stay focused and be engaged. I noticed while observing that a majority
EXAMPLE Eighth Grade Goodbyes They say we’re too young to be apart of something that matters, of something that’s significant. We can’t possibly have problems that mean anything, or relationships that could last forever. Maybe they’re right, but when you’re in the eighth grade, it’s a little hard to see past all the middle school heartbreak and the people you live to impress. Sometimes we don’t want to admit that there’s more to life than just eighth grade; that there is more to life than the amazing
Education is what makes me the person I am today. My school experiences are what I feel have had the most impact on my life. Everything that I have learned, I have learned from school. Whether it be social experiences or actual lessons, that is what made me and that is what keeps me going. Looking back on everything that I have accomplished with my education, is my motivation. The elementary school I attended was about 5 minutes away from my house. Every day one of my parents would drop me off and
Throughout eighth grade, I have learned more than just math and science. I’ve learned a lot of different skills, but the most important one that I have learned is to talk more. Though I haven’t really changed a drastic amount, I do feel like I have learned how to talk to others. At the start of this school year, I didn’t talk at all in class, I only communicated with my friends, and I thought of my teachers only as someone who would teach me. Though I didn’t like to admit it, I knew that I was a very
subject. I flew through the class with little effort, and by the end of every year, I’d have the highest grade for English. The number one thing I did in my free time was even writing. At the time, I didn’t notice a rather glaring problem of mine. Every story would go by quickly, seemingly over within a few pages. One story I had written was only 50 pages in total, and that wasn’t even typed! This problem stayed with me all the way into eighth grade, when I had really pinpointed what was wrong. I wasn’t