Freshman Mentor Now that you are attending Westview High School you are most likely wondering how you are going to get through these four years. As a senior mentor I was paired up with you to help you for the first the first couple weeks of school. As an incoming freshman for these weeks to come I am here to help you get your high school career on track. You are most likely very nervous as I was when I was a freshman. I am to pass wisdom on to you the freshman student. There are three or four
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August 29th‚ 2015 Dear Father Ray Atwood‚ Hello. My name is Ryan Connolly and I am currently preparing for Confirmation. I am 17 years old and I am a Senior at Union High School in La Porte City‚ IA. I have been preparing for Confirmation for several years now and I would like to be confirmed. I want to be confirmed because I have been preparing for this sacrament and I am ready. I have learned that Confirmation is not the end of my faith life‚ but just the beginning. I am ready to take my
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Sexting and Sex go Hand in Hand for Middle School Kids Abstract This article written by Allie Bidwell informs parents‚ educators‚ and even teens about the dangers of sexting. Sexting is not only an immature decision but it also a dangerous one. It can lead to other promiscuous acts such as actual sexual activities. It is also a crime‚ the distributing of explicit pictures or having possession of them is a form of child pornography‚ a serious crime. Statistics and surveys prove this issue has only
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(Lebelle‚ 1999). Middle school is a tough time. There are numerous changes occurring internally and externally amongst children in this age group. Boys and girls are maturing physically at rapid paces‚ but their emotional maturation is a lot slower. This can cause problems. Most young adolescents desire adult treatment‚ because they are beginning to look like adults‚ but‚ on the inside‚ they are still easily influenced children. Teens are desperate to fit in with their peers at school and will go to
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This was a few months after she took him back‚ a few months after she left the shelter for battered women. He gave her the speech of I’m sorry‚ I learned my lesson‚ it will never happened again‚ I don’t know what came over me‚ I’m clean‚ and I want to be a family etc. I still don’t know what caused their argument. We were having fun and playing a game and he started yelling
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Middle school has its ups and its downs‚ we have good teachers and bad teachers. My teachers that I’ve had are different then my elementary school because in middle school they teach you lessons‚ and they also prepare us for life’s adventure. We all have different learning types and different ways of remembering things for a test. For example: visual‚ hands-on‚ and auditory. In my experience I would definitely chose middle school over elementary school because we get to wear fun things and you have
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New Literacies in Middle School (6-8 grade) The articles that I came across in my research are in regards to new literacies in middle school. The readings all share a common thread which is incorporating new literacies into the curriculum help shape students in becoming active global citizens. The authors explained how teachers can leave their comfort zone and implement new literacies as well as student’s perspective about working with new literacies. I wanted to delve a little deeper into this
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tend to enjoy in their day to day lives. Horror is a classical way for middle school students to learn how to catch readers attention when writing‚ so why not teach it. Horror is appropriate for middle school students being that it gets students interested about reading‚ there are life lessons to be learned‚ and students learn more knowledge about the horror genre. On the other hand it is often thought that many middle school students tend to get afraid when reading an horror genre‚ however no matter
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There is only one word that can be used to describe my middle school experience: awkward. My feet were disproportionate to the rest of my body and I hardly ever found a pair of jeans that fit. For the first week of middle school‚ the school nurse had to walk me to class with big puffy eyes. Not every day was as bad as that day‚ but there were definitely days that came close. The hardest part of middle school was making new friends at a new school. Since I was five years old‚ I always had the same few
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be an effective middle school educator‚ it is imperative to understand the developmental complexity of young adolescents. Students aged ten to fifteen experience irregular personal changes that call for certain needs. Not only are students at this age diverse in their backgrounds‚ but also they are also diverse in their development. During the middle school years‚ young adolescents experience a number of intellectual‚ physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ and moral changes. Middle schools need to be developmentally
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