The Hard Lessons

Justice Chambers Mr. Gravett English 101 13 Nov 2017 Are We Giving Children TOO Many Trophies? In today’s society we tend to praise children by giving them plaques, trophies, and medals for anything; even just showing up. We are afraid that our children will be hurt because they lost. That thought makes us oblivious to the fact that we are sending a dangerous message to our children: Everyone's a winner. We are teaching our children that it is never okay to lose, so we make an excuse to make them

Do you believe that teenagers get enough sleep? Jane Brody displays her own stories and statistics on how people don't get enough sleep. The author Jane BRody, in her article “ Hard lesson in sleep for teenagers”, uses an anecdote, logical appeal, and a analogy to convince her readers teenagers are sleep deprived. The author Jane Brody expresses the fact of not getting enough sleep. Teenagers are getting enough sleep and and a questionable mother was asking if her grandsons were getting enough

For my ICAP unit I wrote my lessons on living and nonliving things and how they adapt to their environment. My teacher assigned this topic to me. I am glad my teacher assigned me a science topic. This school focuses a lot on math and language arts so science gets left out a lot so I am glad I could teach a fun lesson in the classroom. My unit fits in with what they were learning during language arts. There would be times my lesson ended up being a preview of what they would learn or would be

In "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line", the author Andrew Braaksma, is identifying an alternative to higher education.  His work at the factory teaches him that people grossly underestimate the value of their time and education. While doing this he is not dismissing the value that the assembly/production line and factory adds to the world but instead acknowledging the privilege of engaging in and getting the most out of a higher education. In "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line", the author is

cartoon movie, it illustrates real-life lessons. The Princess and the Frog is one of my favorite movies. I relate to The Princess and the Frog because of its life lessons such as hard work pays off, practice makes perfect, and persevering through obstacles. Life lessons can be taught through cartoons. In conclusion, The Princess and the Frog is my favorite cartoon movie because of its life lessons. The Princess and the Frog demonstrates the life lesson that hard work pays off. Tiana, the main character

Module five is about helping me understand about my assisting planning assignment. My assisting plan is a mini-lesson that will involve one student or a group of students that I will be helping to learn a skill or concept in ten to twenty minutes. I will be completing two assisting plans that will be completed at the halfway point of the school placement, and the end of the school placement. I can refer to the “Assisting Plan Guidelines” in the Practicum Manual. It is recommended that I start planning

sports I absolutely adored, and those sports taught me many lessons I will never forget. Sports were how I made the most of my friends and how I relieved most of my stress. I believe sports can have noteworthy influence in other areas of life. In Kevin Kniffin’s article, “High School Athletes Gain Lifetime Benefits”, Kniffin explains how research shows people who played sports go on to get better jobs and better pay by using the life lessons they were taught from sports. In Kevin Kniffin’s article

violin I feel that every time I practice it inspires me more and more to keep going on with it and never give up on it no matter how hard music gets or how hard times get. I practice my violin everyday at the least 45 minutes up to one and a half hour, but this never gets me tired it encourages me to go on for another hour. So therefore, that is why I Deserve private lessons because I am that person who ameliorates myself to keep going and to practice something until it's near to perfect. Harmony Project

bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case, my pains were their own reward.” This “pain” is written to be a reward for Thoreau. The reward that is received is the reward of hard work and learning. Even though Thoreau had a very low job in the journalism industry, and made many works for the business, many never saw the light of day. What is understood though, is that he was not very angry or disappointed with the results,

Can a nine year old learn important lessons from a very adult court case? Well, Jem and Scout overall during Tom Robinson’s trial see things only lawyers kids see and learn some hard truths of society. Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, make the two together find that there are a lot of trifles in the court systems, and they should be fixed. Jem and Scout during the trial have realized three grave truths about life, people are stubborn, some things are done just to give people a reason