8th-Grade Lessons Overall Message
I chose the song Whatever it Takes by Imagine Dragons to describe my 8th-grade career because it describes my experiences in both the specific lyrics and the overall message of the song. The overall message of the song is that hard work is required to do well in life. This certainly describes my 8th-grade career, as it has taken a large amount of effort in order to do well in all my classes, while still balancing a social life.
The overall message of this song relates to my 8th-grade career because maintaining satisfactory grades and doing well in my classes has taken a large amount of hard work and effort, and it has also required my unflagging attention. I have always needed to stay focused. This also relates to some of the lyrics, such as “tripping in the world could be dangerous,” and “everybody circling its vulturous.” What these lines mean to me is that if you mess up in school on just one assignment (especially at the beginning of the year), your grades and learning will suffer …show more content…
An example of when this happened is in the Outsiders essay at the beginning of the year. I spent vast quantities of time on this essay and I felt I had put in my best effort, but I ended up getting a C as my grade. When I go back and look at this essay now, I completely agree with the grade, as it was clearly not the best I could’ve done, but the feeling I had then, that sometimes it felt it was never enough, inspired me to work harder to prove to myself that I could do better. This feeling is described in the song as “Never be enough, I’m the prodigal son I was born to run, I was born for this.” Never be enough, expressing my feeling that no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t succeed, and “I was born to run, I was born for this,” refers to the feeling that I must work harder and do better because I know I can do
The overall message of this song relates to my 8th-grade career because maintaining satisfactory grades and doing well in my classes has taken a large amount of hard work and effort, and it has also required my unflagging attention. I have always needed to stay focused. This also relates to some of the lyrics, such as “tripping in the world could be dangerous,” and “everybody circling its vulturous.” What these lines mean to me is that if you mess up in school on just one assignment (especially at the beginning of the year), your grades and learning will suffer …show more content…
An example of when this happened is in the Outsiders essay at the beginning of the year. I spent vast quantities of time on this essay and I felt I had put in my best effort, but I ended up getting a C as my grade. When I go back and look at this essay now, I completely agree with the grade, as it was clearly not the best I could’ve done, but the feeling I had then, that sometimes it felt it was never enough, inspired me to work harder to prove to myself that I could do better. This feeling is described in the song as “Never be enough, I’m the prodigal son I was born to run, I was born for this.” Never be enough, expressing my feeling that no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t succeed, and “I was born to run, I was born for this,” refers to the feeling that I must work harder and do better because I know I can do