Parras Middle School

in the US. I grew up in a part of town where less than 75% of the residents age 25 and over received a high school diploma; less than 13% earned a Bachelor’s degree; and only 3% have a graduate or professional degree. It’s surprising that I even made it to graduate school after reading statistics like these. My objective is to reflect on my school experience, and explore how culture, school structure and family influences contributed to my successful completion of grades K-16, even when the odds were

scholars, I could truly thrive and reach my full potential. Since a young age, I have been set aside as being smart. In elementary school, I would get put in special reading groups and get harder assignments from my teachers. My teachers would always put me with the kids who needed help, and soon, with my help they 'd improve along with me. Once I got into middle school, I started getting thrown into the community of other youth interesting in science. Equine science was nothing new to me—I had studied

people did not have to remember like before they could just read and write to take notes. Lecture Capture is used to record both video and audio of a class so that the students who have a legitimate reason for missing class such as a sickness or a school game they need to be present at can watch and listen at a later time (DeSantis 6). It is a good idea as people

knowing facts, rather than applying them. The Korean school focuses on rote memorization instead of creative thinking (One-Shot). Rote memorization has discouraged critical thinking and creative responses (Sistek). Both the teaching method and the test that are requires students to memorize facts and formulas (Branigin). This does not stimulate any innovative thinking that is needed in the world today. In the Korean education system, high school students take 12 compulsory subjects, a daunting number

have is study skills. You need to pay attention in class and not slack off or you will not understand what you’re doing. Procrastination is also a huge issue in Jr. High and that is not a trap you want to fall into. Without academic success, middle school can turn into a dark, dreadful place. You won’t want to come to your classes anymore because they have become exceptionally demanding. Having study skills will help you succeed and maybe exceed expectations. If you study for every test and quiz

struggles that occurred in my family; the main struggle was how to get through life one day at a time. My mother never graduated from high school, since she gave birth to me and my sister.

I believe that "Diversity" plays important roles in our lives. Without diversity, we cannot widen our field of view. Diversity helps us to open up our eyes and our world. From reading the essay "How diversity makes us smarter", written by Katherine W Phillips, I learned that there are some negative effects brought up by the social diversity where dialog of inclusion is advanced, but mostly diversity is something that has positive effect in our society and even individual. I could also reflect and

made the three types of clouds on a piece of construction paper with cotton balls. I can’t recall anything leading up to the creation of the clouds, but I remember what it looked like when it was finished. Most of my memories of science were in middle school, mainly because I joined Science Olympiad and that is when I discovered how much I loved science. I started Science Olympiad in sixth grade, I was in rocks and minerals and wheeled vehicle. I spent hours in my dad’s machine shop creating my wooden

Learning to Read While Stuck in City Traffic As a young child, your eyes are drawn to lights and signs. I learned this fact at the age of twelve. Not because my eyes were the ones that were always attracted but because at the time, my six year old brother had his big, hazel-green, eyes glued to the window as we sat in the backseat of my mothers Lexus SVU. My younger brother, Michael, would spend every second while we were stuck in parking lot, rush hour, traffic, pronouncing and sounding out any

drinking, or drugs? Tell the story about when the D.A.R.E. Program visited my elementary school. While this week long event was fun as a kid, its information doesn’t affect most kids later on in life. The program’s methods and efforts began to go unnoticed. II. Body D.A.R.E does not prevent drug use in all ages. So for those of you who don’t know about the program, it’s a program that goes around schools presenting the phrase D.A.R.E. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. According