Journal Entry 3 3
Books are fun
Back when I was an eighth grader, I was faced with two choices of high schools that I could’ve gone to, Trimble Tech and Paschal high school. But Trimble tech was my first choice and so I picked to go to Trimble Tech high school. There was one thing that I learned when I got to the school that reading was a requirement and students must have a certain amount of accelerated reader (AR) points for every six weeks. I was immediately pissed off that we had to read because true to all honesty nobody likes to read. Knowing that, I thought of changing schools and instead going to paschal, but it was already too late and there was no way my dad would deal with the trouble switching schools. Getting AR points was a pain, I didn’t like to read but I had to since AR was 10 percent of our total grade, I wanted A’s and B’s, but it would be really difficult to get B’s in the more challenging classes. The first six weeks went by and my grades were horrible, I had B’s and C’s and that meant that I didn’t have an A/B honor roll like I always had. My parents were disappointed with me because they wanted me to have all A’s not B’s and C’s. One thing I really didn’t like doing was getting my parents disappointed in me because I was raised with the fact that education leads to success and I wasn’t going to let my A student siblings beat me, I wanted to make my parents proud just like the other ones have. Reading was the key to all my problems and I’m just going to have to get used to it. So I started reading the cirque du freak series by Darren Shan. At first I absolutely hated reading, but after finishing the first book I couldn’t get enough, and I started reading way more than I had to, I’d read in everywhere and every minute of free time I had. Now thinking back, I couldn’t be happier that I stuck with tech instead of paschal because it taught me how fun books can be. Now I love to read and even though reading not as big of a requirement as it once was I still read
Back when I was an eighth grader, I was faced with two choices of high schools that I could’ve gone to, Trimble Tech and Paschal high school. But Trimble tech was my first choice and so I picked to go to Trimble Tech high school. There was one thing that I learned when I got to the school that reading was a requirement and students must have a certain amount of accelerated reader (AR) points for every six weeks. I was immediately pissed off that we had to read because true to all honesty nobody likes to read. Knowing that, I thought of changing schools and instead going to paschal, but it was already too late and there was no way my dad would deal with the trouble switching schools. Getting AR points was a pain, I didn’t like to read but I had to since AR was 10 percent of our total grade, I wanted A’s and B’s, but it would be really difficult to get B’s in the more challenging classes. The first six weeks went by and my grades were horrible, I had B’s and C’s and that meant that I didn’t have an A/B honor roll like I always had. My parents were disappointed with me because they wanted me to have all A’s not B’s and C’s. One thing I really didn’t like doing was getting my parents disappointed in me because I was raised with the fact that education leads to success and I wasn’t going to let my A student siblings beat me, I wanted to make my parents proud just like the other ones have. Reading was the key to all my problems and I’m just going to have to get used to it. So I started reading the cirque du freak series by Darren Shan. At first I absolutely hated reading, but after finishing the first book I couldn’t get enough, and I started reading way more than I had to, I’d read in everywhere and every minute of free time I had. Now thinking back, I couldn’t be happier that I stuck with tech instead of paschal because it taught me how fun books can be. Now I love to read and even though reading not as big of a requirement as it once was I still read