School Politics Essays

A Bad Past That Changed My Life

I was marked by the difference which was made in school between me and the popular football players. I remember that I felt shy because nobody gave me the chance to show who I really was. All the students looked at the famouse players, nobody looked at me.
On a cloudy and bad day, I saw a new girl in school. She came at me. My heart was beating so fast, because I thought she going to bully  me or something like that. She was a prety girl with a dark hair and her eye colour was like caramel. In her shy voice, she said, "Hi!I'm kate". I felt a vibration in her voice,and that was enough to understood that, that girl didn't want hurt me in any way.
 With her help I discovered my talent..
 Now I'm working at a police departament as a cosultant, and that charming girl, who helped me, is now my wife .Without her I wouldn't have discovered my talent. She supported me and she told that I make connections which other people don't see.  I see men's true identity which fuels my work today.
 So she opened a door in my life, I stuided criminology and now I forgot what had happend in school and I'm happy with my life.
By Alexandra

8th Grade Assignment: The Politics of School

This week, we are going to use the politics of school as inspiration for our writting assignment.

A popular theme in movies, literature and televsion, is the idea that students are divided up into different groups based on interests and personality. We all know the standard titles: Jocks, the Popular kids, the theatre dorks, Nerds and so on.

As we watched in our meeting today, below I have linked the pilot episdoe on the popular television "Glee." This show cleverly displays and tries to challenge the idea that these groups of students cannot step outside of their clicks without upsetting the balance of highschool life.

This week's writting assingment is to use these ideas to form a composition surrounding a villian (antagonist)  and a hero (protagonist). The antagonist is someone who holds tight to the ideas that students must behave and interact according to their popularity level, while the antagonist refuses to let social barriers dictate what they do and how they treat others.

 

Good Luck!

Glee!

8th Grade Assignment: Rob's Request for Bob Marly

At the end of last semester, we placed different topics in a hat and ended up drawing: 

The one and only Bob Marly

What are the topics that surround this iconic figure?

Politics

Race

Music

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7th Grade Reading Group

As decided last semester, the 7th grade section of English Masters, are going start our book club. We are going to read the thrilling tale of one young girl's fight for survival in the popular book:

 The Hunger Games 

By Susan Collins

Today, we will focus on the first chapter and identifying the following information on the setting, major characters and the general plot of this young adult novel.

Chapter 1

Audio Part 1

Audio Part 2