“When I first started here back in 2000, I was the only female conductor in the Suburban East Conference” recalled Marie Dymit. When she was in high school her conductor, Lee Carlson, was a male teacher but she remembers him always pushing her to do what she wanted to do in life. He fueled her passion for choir with the passion he put into his choir groups. He was her role model in high school and even now because he is a big part of why she choose to be a choir…
Students sit down and start singing “Paris the city of light how beautiful you are”. Then they were asked to regain their sit; Jerry followed his teacher with ease. Then the teacher read a story on French revolution for about 15 minutes. Jerry seat quietly inspired by the French revolution story and started asking questions. His French teacher stated that Jerry remained sit throughout his class. He incorporated a lot of pictures to motivate his students, and believes that jerry is enjoying connecting pictures to his story. Jerry would prefer all his classes to be in general education…
The students at Kindezi Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia share that Ella Baker was an influential member in the civil rights movement that had a Knowledge of Self and Community (the fifth element of Hip Hop), that represented her history, and was not afraid to speak her mind. The teacher then reminds the children that speaking one's mind is a critical part of Hip Hop. At a point where the children learned they received an invitation to have one speaker represent their school at the Georgia Tech March for Education, every child raises his or her hand to show interest in being a qualified candidate. You can even hear students saying, "Me" and "I gotta a loud voice. " When the school narrowed the speakers to five contestants, the video shows the student speaking at the march.…
A loud “whoosh” echoes throughout the dark distant auditorium, and in an instant huge gleaming lights lower themselves upon the stage. The stage sits empty, lifeless, waiting, listening..listening for one to drop jaws with their all-knowing Mozart Symphony or disappoint with a piece that has no rhythm. With each day a new audience gathers around to join the stage in listening. To some it just may be a song, but to others it is a message, a chapter, a story. A story that throws all of life's up’s, all of life's downs. All of it’s good days, it’s bad days. Everything described on one sheet of paper.. But ultimately that was the audience's choice. The stage waited each day for the next performer, for the next song..With each passing person a new song, a new story told, and here is mine.…
It’s Saturday night, and trucks are lined up outside the Nuyaka School. There is not a fundraiser going on, or a carnival. It is simply the kids in the community that have come to play basketball and dance to a portable cassette tape player. Hank Williams Jr. blares in the background as the boys go toe to toe to impress the girls that have gathered on the bleachers to compare their dresses for the Nuyaka Eighth Grade Black Tie Affair. Eventually, the boys tire out and the basketball is put away until another weekend. The lights dim, and the dancing begins!…
Rodriguez prepares for an event like the one coming up by studying musical scores and determining which pieces of music will be challenging for the students yet also entertaining for the audience. Once he determines the selections, each group will have about…
In the US there is an unfortunate reality that exists among low-income K-12 public schools. This national tragedy is the failure to teach children of poor families the necessary skills to make it in the real world. Samuel Casey Carter’s No Excuses, states that roughly 20 million lower than average income children exist in the K-12 public school system. Of this number, 12 million are not learning the most fundamental skills (1). His opposition claims that the environment these students experience dooms them to a having a substandard education and as a result a life of poverty.…
My purpose to write this paper is to show you what a talent show is , my reason to organize it, when and where it will happen, who will participate in it, and what I will learn by organizing it. This talent show will be free for all youthcare’s staff, clients and volunteers that donate their time as their money, and the most important thing is to share their love and contributions to change a lot of lives. Anyway, in this talent show 10 youths will be performing by showing different talents, and each one of them will get a prize for being brave to be on the stage in front of a lot of people. In addition, there will be a talent winner that will be chosen by the audience in the event. The event’s theme will be hope and the scenery will be decorated with different hope’s quotes and people of hope.…
Setting: The setting of the story is in the past, in Fresno, California at a school.…
I entered the school grounds and walked over to Juan to speak to him. But, he ignored me. Then he typed on his phone that he was being mute to everyone and that he would be using his phone to type to us, and in class, he would write on paper. But he wouldn’t be speaking to us the whole year. That was his goal. And it seemed, he would accomplish it.…
Our junior year summer Spenser started heading down a road that most would consider as the ‘wrong’ road. He is really into playing the drums. His father played drums for a band when he was younger so Spenser’s father taught him how to play the drums. Spenser’s desire and passion for music is what I think lead him down this road. Spenser joined a band and he got into bad habits that his band members were into. They were habits I did not want to get myself into.…
As a Welcome Week leader I will try my best to apply everything that I did when I was a leader of my group at the Singing Contest. I will explain clearly the rules that students have to follow during the Welcome Week. Then, to make the communication within us clearer, I will try my best to know every student well. Also, I will make students know each other well, so we can work better together. Moreover, I will apply different ways to help them stay away from troubles.…
A young and shy high school boy tries incredibly hard to impress his peers and make friends in his new school. He ponders ways to do so, but feels inferior to the popular crowd in Tree Hill High School. Will he give out free food at lunch? Will he dress to impress? Will he run for class president? He will do none of these things. The shy boy will throw a raging house party that will be the talk of the school and make him be the most popular sophomore at Tree Hill High School. Then, he wonders how he will ever keep it a secret from his parents. His life will be over if his parents find out and he will be grounded until he is married. Luckily for him, he just has to follow numerous steps in order to not receive a miserable punishment from his parents. He will conquer his high school dream of becoming a part of the popular crowd and earn respect from his peers all while acting like the perfect child towards his mother and father.…
All participants, presidents and secretaries of the various clubs in school, had gathered at the school hall at 2pm. From there, they were taken to the campsite in two buses. They were accompanied by five teachers, including the senior assistant of co-curricular affairs Puan Ng. Upon arrival at the campsite, they were given a briefing by the facilitators. Then, they were put into groups and asked to set up tents. By 7pm, most of them had accomplished this task successfully. After dinner, the participants had to engage in their first group activity. They were required to come up with names and theme songs for their groups.…
Life at school has become meaningful and was shaded with different beautiful colors as days pass. It can be compared to movies or “teleseryes” on television. There is drama. There is comedy, action and adventure. The different activities we have joined and actively participated completed our academic training. We were not only confined to the four walls of the classroom but at the same time encouraged to bring out our hidden talents, skills and potentials.…