Personal Narrative: First Day Of Night School
It all started on the first day of Night School. I was the first student to walk into the classroom, excited for a fun and interesting semester I was eager to meet my new classmates as well as to make new friends in night school. All was going well that night until Ms. Easton my night school English teacher began to speak to us about the ISU. She began by telling the class to forget about what we previously thought an ISU s for English class was. That was not what I was expecting. Earlier, that week in day school where I was already enrolled in the Grade twelve University English course, I was told by my English teacher that we had to read two novels and write two essays which compared the two novels and their various themes for our ISU. As she continued to speak my heart began pounding "an ISU where we don't have to read two novels and write essays about them? That doesn't sound right…" I thought to myself. I could feel myself getting more and more anxious until Ms. Easton finally explained that the ISU was going to be an Abstract noun of our choice. "An abstract noun? I quietly whispered to
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Easton said. I began, to learn the difference between abstract nouns and concrete nouns. Concrete nouns register the five senses. Now all of this was starting to make more sense to me. Then, we began to brainstorm abstract nouns and that's when I relaxed because I knew that there was a variety of abstract nouns to choose from for the ISU. Words such as joy, passion, loyalty, happiness, evil, faith etc. After the class brainstormed enough words, we were given the task of writing down our top three abstract nouns on a piece of paper that Ms. Easton handed out. That's when my mind went blank, I didn't want to choose a word like love or happiness because most people would want it, but I also didn't want to choose a difficult word like
Easton said. I began, to learn the difference between abstract nouns and concrete nouns. Concrete nouns register the five senses. Now all of this was starting to make more sense to me. Then, we began to brainstorm abstract nouns and that's when I relaxed because I knew that there was a variety of abstract nouns to choose from for the ISU. Words such as joy, passion, loyalty, happiness, evil, faith etc. After the class brainstormed enough words, we were given the task of writing down our top three abstract nouns on a piece of paper that Ms. Easton handed out. That's when my mind went blank, I didn't want to choose a word like love or happiness because most people would want it, but I also didn't want to choose a difficult word like