Graduation Speech: The Tell Tale Heart
There's an old Beatles song that begins:
"There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain."
It seems to me, when we look back at our years at Thomas Middle School, we will have many of the same feelings.
Who can forget Rory getting stuck in a mudpit at Loredo Taft? Mr. G's inspired reading of "The Tell Tale Heart?" When Mr. B electrocuted the whole classroom? Or getting the chance to pie a teacher when we adopted a family at Christmas?
Certainly, we will remember these specifics and little flashes of others, like Kodak moments frozen in time, to return perhaps when we least expect them.
Arriving at Thomas the first day was chaotic, some would say. Others …show more content…
Suddenly, we were the bosses of the school, hallways and busses, or so we imagined. We were all-powerful and in control of our lives. We got excited about our mock election which mirrored both Channel One and the national results. We were on every team, in every club and in every student government position available. Some were in music, others in sports, and some industrial tech. I was the villain in the musical and we all will remember Beau conning his way through Iowa as the Music Man.
These middle school years have brought us many personal changes as well. Our parents give us more freedom than we had before. We have cell phones, we shop for ourselves, and we get to go trick-or-treating with our friends and without parental supervision. We have also reached puberty, which brings our attention to the opposite sex, and the loud, dark dances in the commons where we guys asked girls to dance for the first time. Many of us have even started dating that mysterious person at lunch who has been smiling at us all year. We've experienced growth spurts, zits and the occasional anonymous love note, and I suspect that it is only the beginning for all of those
"There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain."
It seems to me, when we look back at our years at Thomas Middle School, we will have many of the same feelings.
Who can forget Rory getting stuck in a mudpit at Loredo Taft? Mr. G's inspired reading of "The Tell Tale Heart?" When Mr. B electrocuted the whole classroom? Or getting the chance to pie a teacher when we adopted a family at Christmas?
Certainly, we will remember these specifics and little flashes of others, like Kodak moments frozen in time, to return perhaps when we least expect them.
Arriving at Thomas the first day was chaotic, some would say. Others …show more content…
Suddenly, we were the bosses of the school, hallways and busses, or so we imagined. We were all-powerful and in control of our lives. We got excited about our mock election which mirrored both Channel One and the national results. We were on every team, in every club and in every student government position available. Some were in music, others in sports, and some industrial tech. I was the villain in the musical and we all will remember Beau conning his way through Iowa as the Music Man.
These middle school years have brought us many personal changes as well. Our parents give us more freedom than we had before. We have cell phones, we shop for ourselves, and we get to go trick-or-treating with our friends and without parental supervision. We have also reached puberty, which brings our attention to the opposite sex, and the loud, dark dances in the commons where we guys asked girls to dance for the first time. Many of us have even started dating that mysterious person at lunch who has been smiling at us all year. We've experienced growth spurts, zits and the occasional anonymous love note, and I suspect that it is only the beginning for all of those