Sentences with phrase «eighth grade i got»

I read Moby Dick much too early and never really got it, but in eighth grade I got the high school prize for a story.

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Julianne Goldmark and Emily Matson: This duo created hair ties, getting inspiration in the eighth grade when they envied celebrity high - end ties but couldn't afford them.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

I'm just beginning to get over the shock that Sam, my baby boy, the one who should still be toddling around learning his ABC's, wrapped up eighth grade this past week.

I should have sent in something when he got two holes in one in thesummer after eighth grade.

I should have done it when he got two holes in one in thesummer after eighth grade.»

Once got his foot stepped on by Vin Scully in the Candlestick Park press elevator... sat next to Teri Hatcher in eighth grade algebra class... Once went to a school called «Mango».

But as she got older, she realized she needed to get out on the perimeter, and after her eighth - grade year, she started moving to the outside.

I got story after story of adults who were still hurt by that grade (or sixth or eighth).

I want my eighth grade daughter to run and jump and play and dream, to get off her phone, get off the computer, and walk with me and my dog in the evening.

The move to refuse the state standardized tests scheduled for later this week is getting more vocal, as test dates approach for children in third through eighth grades.

Vargas will also use the award to provide eighth grade students — who are usually learning about the carbon cycle through their class curriculum — a chance to get a hands - on learning experience related to carbon.

He was moved into the gifted and talented program in eighth grade, but he almost got thrown out again for what he calls a goofy stunt: imitating a magician he'd seen on the Arsenio Hall Show who carried a razor blade in his mouth and used it to do tricks.

It was causing severe headaches and rashes and different things like shingles that I got when I was in eighth grade.

Gwen recently revealed she gets style inspiration from her eighth - grade self.

Enter into eighth grade and I finally got contacts.

For Emi - Jay founders Julianne Goldmark and Emily Matson, starting a hair accessory business in eighth grade was just a practical solution to get Gossip Girl - worthy hairstyles without Gossip Girl prices.

On our staff, for example, discussions around awards tend to concentrate on who is going to win the honors in each eighth - grade class and which teacher will be responsible for getting the plaque engraving done.

If you're going to turn around the kids who are new to this country or have been in bad school systems, the fastest way is to get the family to buy in, too, and not stigmatize the family just because they maybe didn't get out of the eighth grade.

A lot of it is set up to be differentiated,» he said, to reach back and touch on things that they need to know to get the eighth - grade curriculum.»

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

98, an eighth - grade counselor at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Massachusetts (Jacob's district), says that in the past few years, her district has put a lot of effort into helping educators at all levels — elementary through high school — get the training they need.

It is the lowest performing city in all four categories, and it got worse in three since the last administration, including a statistically significant plummet in eighth - grade math — dropping its proficiency rate to 3 percent.

You'd be surprised, perhaps, how desperately an eighth grade boy wants his mom (or dad or grandma or pastor) to get a positive call home.

«To get more parents to come to open house, especially during that first open house, when grades and behavior may not be issues, I award keys to students who get someone to represent them at open house,» explains eighth - grade language arts teacher Anica H. Weeks.

We say we want to get students achieving such - and - such a standard by eighth grade.

«My biggest problem is getting them from eighth grade into a [secondary] school,» said Linda McLeod, the Indian Island principal.

They know it's an eighth grade tradition, so on the first day of school, they come in asking if they're going to get to go to the cemetery.

«We never get through everything,» says eighth - grade teacher Rebecca Braun.

«They can get to commencement, and then decide on a two - year or four - year college, work, the military, or whatever they want, rather than having this stratified in the eighth grade,» she says.

Fab Friday has helped Cassandra, an eighth - grade student, get to know the school's teachers on a more personal basis.

McLeod: My biggest problem is getting [kids] from eighth grade into a high school.

«Some students were angry, especially some eighth grade boys, because they did not get permission to go to the funeral or the wake,» Ms.Ouellette says.

To get specific: In Chicago Public Schools ~ white and Asian students made minor gains on NAEP in reading between 2003 and 2009 ~ but Hispanic students gained little and blacks gained nothing ~ so the achievement gap widened between whites and minorities at the fourth and eighth grade levels.

Eighth - grade students were literally begging me to project their answers or asking me to allow them to resubmit an answer because they'd just gotten a better idea from another students example.

This week, as our school enters another season of testing, our sixth - and eighth - grade teachers have chosen to read to students a principal's letter that one parent posted online: «We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.

We are already getting calls and e-mails from parents who are getting those unwelcome letters from Chicago Public Schools telling them that their children will not be able to participate in eighth grade graduation, and, along with some third and sixth graders, will have to go to summer school in order to be promoted.

Please help us get the word out to parents that they can challenge the decision — especially the one barring students from eighth grade graduation.

«Background characteristics (e.g., race, gender, neighborhood poverty, free lunch eligibility, being old - for - grade, and special education status) are all related to high school grades and test scores, but they do not tell us any more about who will pass, get good grades, or score well on tests in high school, once we take into account students» eighth - grade GPAs, attendance, and test scores,» the authors said.

But his eighth - grade students seem to be getting the concepts.

● The Jefferson - Houston School, which moved into a new building and got a new principal last year, will expand its International Baccalaureate program to the entire school, which serves pre-kindergarten to eighth - grade students.

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.

While eighth - grade history students throughout the city and state were studying the Civil War, students in some classes at Markham had barely gotten to the Articles of Confederation.

Thirteen - year - old Jeffrey must figure out how to live as a cancer survivor, get the girl, and graduate eighth grade.

At the end of the last school year, seventh and eighth grade students got to take home a paperback version of their choice for summer reading.

Now, when Utah schoolchildren finally get the chance to study climate change in the eighth grade, they'll have this dangerously wrongheaded idea in their minds to fuel much - spirited argument over whether excess greenhouse gases are even all that bad for the environment.

Get Real Middle School is designed to be implemented with 9 sequential classes per year for 3 years while students are in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and the lessons are designed to be medically accurate and age appropriate for these particular grades.

Eighth graders looking after themselves are more likely to smoke tobacco, drink, get poor grades and use marijuana than children who have some supervision after school (Children's Defense Fund 1997).