R1: Summer

For our next blogs we have to compose a blog about what we love most about the end of the school year.  I have been looking forward to summer because of graduation and the beginning of college. I worked hard my whole school year and it will be nice to take a break from the books and relax. Another thing that I look forward to with school coming to an end is hanging out with friends.  During the school year I couldn’t really hang out with friends because of sports and studying.  I have been taking a lot of time throughout the school year to do projects and study for tests and quizzes. It will be nice to take a break from all the studying and just have fun.  Another thing I am most excited about the school year is not having to wake up early in the morning to get to school. I don’t have to worry about having to get to bed early to make sure I wake up in the morning.  During the school year I rarely got a good night of sleep so my day would drag along and usually I wouldn’t pay attention to any of my school work in class. I have been looking forward to the end of the school year mainly because I am a senior and I have spent 4 years in High school and I am ready to move on in life. I am looking forward to all the grad parties that I will be attending and having fun with my friends before everyone goes their separate ways. Sumner break is rapidly approaching and I am looking forward to it. I have been ready for summer for a while now and It is right around the corner.  Summer will be here in no time.

R3: Mr. Currin

For our next blogs I am going to express my feelings about a subject that I should have expressed earlier in my high school career. The topic for one of the blogs is Mr. Currin is a big deal true or false.  Wow what a tough question. I had to take a while just to absorb in this question. I knew Mr. Currin all four years of my high school grades. I also had Mr. Currin as a varsity football coach. My answer to the question is yes he is a big deal and no he is not a big deal. Let me start of by saying I had two classes with Mr. Currin. I enjoyed both classes for the most part. I had English class with Mr. Currin in 10^th grade. He really helped me out with all of my assignments and homework. He is a big deal because he helped me out in English and was the reason I passed. The other class I had with him was Online Publishing. I enjoyed this class because it really helped my writing ability. One reason he isn’t a big deal is because of my articles for the bulldog didn’t make the cut. This article was named “Month of May”. I really worked on this article because I wanted it to be special. It turns out according to Mr. Currin the article was so bad that it didn’t make the cut. He isn’t a big deal because I strived on this article putting my best effort in it and an end up it wasn’t good enough. However enough with the negatives because he can be a good guy. One positive is that he was a great football coach. He always worked 100 percent and he made practices fun.  Mr. Currin is sort of a big deal in certain ways.

Q1: Senior year

For our next blogs we were given the option to talk about anything we want. For this choice blog I am going to talk about this year’s school year. This year was a good year and I enjoyed most of my classes. I had a lot of fun this year and enjoyed most of my senior year. I liked that I had friends in most of my class. I really enjoyed senior year because my classes were easy and my teachers were nice and fun.  My favorite class would have to English. I have English 12 with Mrs. Schaefer. She is one of my favorite teachers because her classes are fun and you learn a lot. There is never a boring class because she always makes it fun.  Another class that I really liked was sociology with Mr. Cayea. I had 2 classes with Mr. Cayea and I really enjoyed both of them because he likes to have fun and his classes are never boring.  He is one teacher that I enjoyed and I actually paid attention in his classes. My two favorite teachers are Mr. Cayea and Mrs. Schaefer. Senior year I really cracked down and focused on grades.  At the beginning of the year I created a set of goals that I wanted to achieve senior year. Some of those goals that I created are to get better grades, attend class more, and pay attention in all of my classes. I look back at these goals and I feel like I achieved them. I got better grades this year because I paid attention more often and did all of my homework. I am happy with my effort this year because all of the hard work has paid off in the end. Overall, this senior year was my best year in high school.

Q3: Tuesdays With Morrie

For our next blogs we have to talk about our favorite book we have read in an English class. Well throughout my 12 years in school I have read many books that I loved and hated. I found that some books keep me into it wanting to read more then I found some books caught me dozing off out of boredom. One of my favorite books that I am going to talk about is Tuesdays With Morrie. This book was written by Mitch Albom. I have just finished reading this book with my class in 12^th grade. This has to be my favorite book I have read in all of my high school years because it kept my attention the whole time. I was actively involved in reading and I looked forward to reading it.  This story is about Mitch a sports analyze writer for a local newspaper. Mitch was flipping through the channels on his television one night when he saw someone he recognized. He realized that it was his old professor; Morrie. Mitch hasn’t talk to Morrie in 16 years. Morrie was diagnosed with a diease and everyone knew he didn’t have much life yet. Mitch wanted to reconnect with his professor so he went and visited him. Morrie was so happy to see him and each week on Tuesday Mitch would come visit Morrie. Each week they would talk about life. This has to be my favorite book I read because the meaning behind it. This story shows two people reconnecting and becoming best friends again. I like all the things that Morrie tells Mitch about life. This story kept me wanting to keep reading when we had to stop. I really recommended this book to people who haven’t read it before. This story was one of my favorite books I read in English.

Q2: Summer of 2012

For our next blogs we have to talk about our plans for summer. Well, with school coming to an end in a month I have a lot of plans for the summer. I am excited for summer mostly because it marks the end of High School for me. I spent my whole life working for this moment and I am excited to graduate.  I have a lot of plans for this summer. One thing I am doing over summer is working at Darien Lake Theme Park. This is going to be my fourth season and all four seasons I was food service. I am looking forward to starting work because I can make money and see a lot of people I haven’t saw since last season. Another plan for this summer is to get ready for college. This fall I will be attending classes at GCC.  I am taking up business for my major. I am looking forward to this because I am ready to move on in live and the first step is earning a degree.  This summer I want to spend as much time with my friends as possible. I want to enjoy my summer and have fun. One thing I am looking forward to is grad parties. I am planning on going to as many as possible and hang out with my friends. Another thing that I plan on doing over this summer is going to a lot of concerts. I want to go have fun with my friends and enjoy my summer.  For this summer I have many fun things planned. I am looking forward to this summer because it is the mark of something new as I graduated high school and move on in life. I believe I am well prepared for this summer and I am looking forward to it.

P3: Articles

For our next blogs we have to read an article and we have to write a response to it.  We were given the article called New York Teacher Ratings Renew Evaluation Debate written by Beth Fertig. After reading this article I found out a lot about teachers.  This article was all about teacher evaluations and whether or not they should loose there job if there kids test scores are low. The debate that is going on right now is whether or not a teacher should loose there if their student test scores are low. Teachers are fighting this because they don’t think they need evaluation because every student is different. I believe that teachers should be evaluated and I also do believe that they shouldn’t be evaluated for different reasons.  I think that teachers are getting paid to make sure that students get grades and they should be worried about their grades.  Teachers should be evaluated to see who is currently at the top and bottom. If a teacher is constantly at the bottom of teachers they should loose there job. I also feel like this evaluation is unfair because every student is different and teachers have different students.  However like I said before teachers are getting paid to do their job so I believe that this evaluation system will see improved grades. New York school districts have to change to the evaluation policy before next January. I believe New York state is worried about the students grades so this teacher evaluation will work I believe. This also gives teacher something extra to work for and to make sure they do the best that they can. I didn’t know about this system until I read this article and looked into it. I really enjoyed reading this article because I learned a lot of information.

P2: Goals

For our next blogs we have to look back at one of the first blogs we wrote that had us talk about what we hoped to accomplish this year in school. In this blog we have to talk about if we feel like we accomplished what our goals were. First of all, one of my goals for senior year was to do better in school. As I sit here one month left in school I believe that I accomplished doing better in school. My grades have improved since last year I noticed that I was doing better in all my classes. Another goal that I established at the beginning of the year was to attended school more often and pay attention in school. I look back at writing this and I believe that I really did do. I know that I missed less days of school this year than last year. I am paying more attention to my classes and listening to what my teachers are saying this year rather than last year. Another one of my goals that I planned out at the beginning of the year was to write better in English.  I look at my work that I did last year and I noticed an incredible change in my ability to write. I noticed that I was making less errors and I was explaining more. I also looked at the blogs I wrote in the beginning of the year and noticed that I am better writer now because I am making less mistakes and I am getting better grades. I am happy that I accomplished my goals that I established at the beginning of the year and I feel that I all the hard work I put in really paid off.  I am happy that I stuck with my goals and did what I said I was going to do.