Year End Refelction

      Our 2013-2014 school year is almost over and my Junior year was just amazing. I feel as though that I did a great job in my Junior year and that I reached my goals that I proposed to myself that I would have done by the end of this school year. This year I improved as a student and as a person I think that this year was my year just because I did so great. The most and interesting thing that I learned this year was to learn to be independent and to put myself first before others. Now that this year is about to be over I am ready for my Senior year.
      
       My Junior year was pretty much my lucky year just because I did a great job in all my classes I did 10 times better than what I did in my Freshman and Sophomore year combined together. This year I didn't fell any classes I passed all my classes with A's and B's. Also I didn't skip classes or skip school that's what makes your grade drop and makes you fell classes. Lastly this year made me improve as a person by maturing in my attitude and in my thoughts.

      Being independent made me learn that you can achieve any goals you propose to yourself without the help of others. It made me realize that I could do it alone and even better than when other people could  had helped me. Putting myself as second place was always what I did before but this year I put a stop to that and started to worry more about me then others. I would always worry about others before me and that just made me feel that I didn't love myself that I cared about other before me and that's how is not suppose to be, is always suppose to be you first always you first.

      I'm glad that I made it to the end of my Junior year and that in a few months I will be a Senior this just makes me so happy and proud of myself that I got so far in High school. Now my goals that I want to achieve before I graduate is to get into Temple and get a FBI degree. Also I want to retake my SAT's and get a good score before I apply to colleges. The most important thing  is to know that just because I'm about to graduate it doesn't mean I can start slacking of at school and in my grades I will always have that in mind. Lastly, just to enjoy and have fun in my Senior year and look back with my friends in our achievements and to start to plan our future after we graduate.

      In conclusion, Finally school is about to be over but I'm not just happy about that I'm also happy that I made it so far that I am so close to finishing high school. I'm glad of what I have become this year and all my effort I put in my school work was worth it. I am happy and proud to say that I achieved all my goals I proposed in the beginning of this school year and that I now learned to be independent. Now that I know that I passed my Junior year I know that I will do great in my Senior year just because this year made me realize that school is an important part of your life it takes you to the path you want to take later on in your future. I am ready and happy to be in my Senior Year.

SAT Essay Practice

      In my point of view I think that people should be judged by their experience and achievements so many reasons. Mostly people shouldn't be judged at all but that's just how society is. It don't matter if you did a good thing or bad people are always going to judge you for what you did wrong or right. Judging is part of life and we will always get good judgement and bad ones for our actions. 

      Experience is what you already learned from or got talent from people with experience know more than people that have little experience. It depends on what kind of experience we are talking about there are a lot of experiences. Like jobs,school,life and career but what it matter is that you know how to manage it wisely. People should be judged by experience because you can see how much people know about a certain thing and how much effort they put into their work or other things.

      Achievements also matter how much effort and time you put in them to reach your goals. Achievements is all about how much you did to get to a certain place or position and how much you went through to get in that position. People also should get judged by their achievements because with their achievements you can see how much they increased or decreased in their goals. To see how much effort they put into their goals and see if they really want to achieve it. People's achievements can help people have good or bad judgement towards them depending on what they did to achieve a certain goal.

      In conclusion, people should not be judged at all it don't matter if good or right because they might have a reason of why they did what they did. Experience and achievements is what people should judge based on and not if we did good or bad things. Experience can help you see how people really are good at a certain thing or how bad they are. In achievements it helps people see how much their effort was to reach a certain goal or a certain place or position. Even though we get judged everyday at least we should give people good reasons to judge us the way they do.

 

Final Countdown

      This year has been exciting and and good it was an important year for me because is my Junior year where most colleges see your academic. This year was important because on this year it depended on me to attend college or not also grades are important to me. I'm glad that I did such a great job in my grades this year I got mostly A's with one B. I really didn't do well last year or my freshman year. I hope that this last quarter I do great just like I did in the passed 3 quarters.
      My plans for this last quarter is to study a lot for my final exams in any classes that I might get tested on from what I learned this whole school year. Next to finish all my projects that are due before the end of the school year that counts the majority of the last quarter grade. To be more responsible with my punctuality than the last 3rd marking period. Have the same or even better grades just like I did this whole year. Lastly to be a good student and be responsible with my work and my work in groups.
      In conclusion, I really hope that this marking period goes by fast so that summer can be here soon as possible. Also so that next year I be finally be a senior and get to graduate.I just want to finish High School so that I can start going to college and get my career. But it all depends on how I do this year that is an important year to me my Junior year.This 4th quarter I will do my best and work really hard to accomplish my goals.

Perfectly Content

      A place where I feel perfectly content is in a park with a lot of trees and that is a calm place where I can listen to music freely and just take my mind into imagination. I like to be alone and just listen to lyrics of songs while laying or sitting in the park just watching the beautiful day go by. Our mind never stops thinking is always working but mines work more when I'm thinking about how my future would be like or how my past had been if I were never like I am now. Just sitting or laying down while listening to music in a park makes my mind blow away and just forget about the world and worry more about me and my future.
      Music is my escape into happiness and to imagination. Is okay to have imagination no matter your age. Imagination is just a special feeling that you can control where you want to take your mind to. You can think of millions of things and place them were you want in your mind. You also can create your own world with your own imagination and make it as how you wish a certain thing was or want to accomplish. Your imagination is not only for things that are fantasy you can also make them accomplishments and make them come true. I always say to myself when I go to the park "Music On, World Off".
      Lyrics of songs always help my emotions come out or the lyrics always help me explain feelings I could had never explain before. There's sad,happy,mean and funny songs when I feel one of those emotions in me I always listen to that genre of music to help me think and express my self even more. Lyrics most of the time express the way I feel towards certain things or people and it helps me put my thoughts in place when I feel undecided and just need help controlling my emotions. Lyrics are not always to sing along with and enjoy just the beat but is also to help you express feelings you never you thought could explain with songs.
      I like to spend my time in a park because is a calm place where nature and fresh air is where the most green parts of the world are and where people can think with out feeling pressure. Nature is what relaxes you the most and makes your thoughts get into place if you don't know what to do in a certain situation. The fresh air always helps put your thoughts together and think in a positive way. \
      In conclusion, I like to spend time in a park listening to music because it relaxes me in a way I can never be relaxed in.  Just listening to lyrics that relate to me makes me feel like I am not alone and that someone out there in this world is feeling just like I am. Fresh air is what relaxes me and helps me thinks in a positive way. Spending time in a park listening to music is a perfectly content place to be at.
   

Resume

Sandra's Resume

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Behavior Plan

Schools always want to have good discipline for students but not all students behave like the school staff would want them to behave. In every school there is good students, somewhat good and bad students. The staff always want the students in their best behavior to have a good reputation of the school. In students depend the reputation of the school with their behavior they can make a change. I think that if there is a reward for having a good behavior than maybe students can start behaving now that they know they will get rewarded for being a good student.

If I was the principal or the dean of Furness I would also want my students to be in their best behavior to have a good reputation of Furness. I would say that if they behave and have a good discipline they can go to very fun trips like amusement parks, museums, and other trips they can come up with. But we will not give out trips for people that only behave for a certain amount of time they have to behave the whole year. They can't have no more than 3 absences or lateness no more than 3 detentions and absolutely no suspensions or pending. I think that this would want to make some students behave and some students won't care but I wouldn't care either because is not my education is theirs.

The plan that Mr. Riccobono requested is okay not that amusing or interesting is an okay plan. I think that if he gets other ideas maybe people would want to really behave. I know that some students don't care of his plan but some really do. I think that he just needs a little more creativity and ideas. I think that his plan is a little too plain he needs more amusing things that would want students to say "Ohh yes I want too accomplish my behavior status to get what Mr. Rick is proposing". I'm not saying that is not a good plan it actually is to get the students behavior together. the only thing that Mr. Rick is trying is so that Furness can have a good reputation.

I actually did like Mr. Rick's plan I think that I will start to come in early and not get detention for a whole month so that I can get my ticket and be a member of the "Orange & Black Pack". I know that the only thing Mr. Rick is trying to do is to change the school reputation and also the students behavior. In our school there is mostly more students that behave bad or somewhat bad not all students are good students. Every student have their own defects because nobody is perfect. So yes Mr.Ricks plan was a good idea for students to have the opportunity to make a change to Furness.

In conclusion, What Mr.Rick proposed for the students in order for them to behave is a good idea so that students can get their actions and responsibilities together. Maybe this plan can work and less students would have bad behaviors. But there is always going to be bad students that's just part of the school in order to be a school. Because schools and everything in this world have their Ups and Downs. I really hope Mr.Ricks plan do work and students start to have a good behavior.

New Year's Resolution

This year of 2014 I'm trying to have a lot of goals and a lot of time for myself. I want this year to be better than last year. I don't want to make the same mistakes I did last year. I notice that I have to grow up and be the mature girl that I am. If this year is not perfect I will make it perfect.

My first personal resolution is to not get into a relationship this year at all. I really want to focus on school and on me. I think that having a boyfriend will make me lose my time when I can use it for something better. Like I want to study hard for my SAT's so that I can go to college. If I have a boyfriend than I would get distracted and not put any effort into my education.

My second and last personal resolution is to get a job before school is over this year. I want to get a job to get my own things and to earn money for college. If I don't get a job I will just be stuck at home all day and do nothing I prefer working all day then staying home. Work will also help me distract my mind of things and I will also earn money. I want to work also to help my mom around the house and with the bills.

My first academic resolution is to work hard on my grades and keep them just like I started this school year. I want to get straight A's with maybe a possibility of one B also do very good this year. This year is very important to me because my Junior year depends on me attending college or not. I really want to go to college and become a FBI agent. So this year my Junior year I can't slack like I did in my Sophomore year.

My second and last academic resolution for this year is to stay in school. No skipping or cutting classes or even skipping school. I learned that skipping classes and school only brings your grades down and make you fail things you never knew you could failed. I had to learn this the hard way and now that I know I will not make the same mistake. I know that school is a very important step in your life it leads you were you want to end up. 

In conclusion, like I said previously I want my year of 2014 to be perfect if is not perfect I will make it perfect. I really want to achieve every goal I said I will do. When I try to achieve my goal and there is obstacles I will face them and keep on moving with my same goal. I am not backing up on any of my goals because I know this is for my own good. 2014 just better be good.