First Day of Class Essay

Perplexing Coding This picture symbolizes my AP Computer Science class because in this class, I had to come up with different types of codes, like the one shown, to write and format. I chose this image because once I entered this class I knew that coding was exactly what it appeared to be. Complicated. Most of my class was filled with seniors so the first few months I struggled to learn the material that they already knew. When Mr. Ellich asked questions like what does “string” mean in coding,…

Street Loft, and my Advanced Placement Studio Art teacher, as well. They showed how important the arts are, and that a degree in the commercial arts is important. Since education comes in many forms, my experience at a pre-college art school and my art class in high school made me realize that pursuing a degree in the arts was the only fit for me. Although I consider myself a creative and artistic person, I wasn’t always artistic and never thought I would go into the art field. Although I did…

Midterm Exam – The Child and the Curriculum John Dewey’s The Child and the Curriculum, written over a century ago, poses a question that can still prove relevant to teachers in this day and age. His primary question that he attempts to tackle in his paper, is simple: should education be tailored to a child’s specific needs, or to a set curriculum? Throughout the paper, he argues that the tug of war between child and curriculum is ultimately futile; choosing one over the other will still prove…

and sat in the first available seat my eyes landed on. I choose to seat myself towards the second row from the front. The room was relatively small and quiet; most of the seats had already been occupied. My eyes then focused on a tall lady. She was wearing a white lab coat and looked to be in her late fifties. Suddenly the bell rang and she introduced herself as Mrs. Huber; our teacher. She began by going over the typical class procedures and rules. My first impression of the class seemed hard…

this class was going to be really hard for me. The first days of class I was okay,but when I find out that I had to do an introductory speech I panicked. I am a very shy person and I don 't talk a lot, I know that this can be bad, but it is difficult for me to change. FYE made the right choice for me, with a group everything seems better. Throughout the semester there has been challenges for me in this class but I never gave up. Since I found out that I had to take a communication class,…

have an issue, but since it's manufactured over processed junk that is promoted to children as "the best thing" in the world it's a problem. Since there is a national epidemic of obese children the first lady, Michelle Obama, has taken it upon herself to change the way our children eat. One of her first initiatives was to change the food offered…

exclamation point! It’s almost Christmas break and the first semester is about to end as well. I think my grades are not that bad, I guess. I even still remember the first day of the school year, and I remember the first day during my fifth period class. I came into that class with seven other students. It’s a pretty small class. I sat on the second row, and the teacher was doing all those regular meeting introductions. I thought that the class was going to be easy because everybody was just…

when we are in bible class. Like the other day in class I said something funny and they all laugh and even on the next day they were bringing it up and saying how funny it was. so If I act bad then they are going to think Nathan is being bad so it must be cool to be bad and that is not the kind of example I want to set so the kids in the younger grades I want them to know that they can be cool or funny and still follow the rules and that the rules are in place not to make the class more lame or…

reading recovery class along with all the other ‘troubled students’. Every day I missed free time filled with exciting games such as seven-up and tag, forcibly sat in a room where the lights were just a bit too bright and the chairs a bit too straight, and read aloud. After an eternity of struggling through a page of words that wouldn’t stay where they were supposed to and letters that loved swapping places I went back to math class with a star sticker. The other kids in my class were jealous…

year you were in gym class, imagine the dirty smell of the locker rooms, and picture the shine of the waxed, gym floor. All around you, students are either warming up or talking to their friends, some even anticipating the moment that the coach comes in, ready to start gym class. Whether you liked gym or not, everyone had to do it at one point of their lives. It doesn’t seem to matter what grade or school you went to, there will always be the same three types of people in gym class: the…