Sentences with phrase «of my classmates just»

«Most of my classmates just treated all this as an academic exercise, and they kept on living as they had before.

«It was really intimidating for me because many of my classmates just seemed to know it all already, and they were all so eager to speak up,» she says.

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After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

He just wanted to rate the looks of fellow classmates.

I recently read that a classmate of mine started a company that was acquired during the Internet boom for $ 500 million when it was just 18 months old.

Even as a gay male, it was strange for me showering with my straight classmates or at the gym just as its strange for straight people in the same situation but I am a human being who is capable of respect for others privacy and personal boundaries.

Even if we are the special few who were not raised with the media as our pacifiers, we definitely had friends, family members, teachers, classmates, colleagues and so on, who were raised believing this is just commonplace behavior, influencing our early - forming minds in the process of simply doing life together.

Many of my fellow classmates in the same graduating class are looking for a college to join rather than to decide which part of the army they should apply, which makes me a happy camper but a younger friend of mine has already decided to apply himself in the army i asked him why and he just simply replied that it was for the country.

Countless hours of studying, nerve - wracking cold calls during class, intense competition with classmates... honestly, it sounds like just about the worst thing you could put me through.

My high school classmate and local photographer just posted this photo of the beautiful Tamaqua Depot Square all decked out for the holidays!

At one of the first team meetings his players raved about the kid who had just transferred in from nearby Santaluces High, after watching video clips of their new classmate.

Not sure what that meant just noticed alot of my classmates changed after those half hours.

She won the first tournament she entered («There just wasn't any competition for a girl in Georgia») and to the cheers of her classmates she became the Augusta Women's Tennis Champion a year later.

So, just because your child isn't as skillful of a reader as his classmates or his siblings were at his age doesn't necessarily mean that he has a learning disorder.

It didn't take long for her to come home complaining that one of her classmates pushed her, or that another classmate was just being mean «for no reason.»

And just as with girls, if your son is an early bloomer, he may feel awkward or like he's the subject of stares from his classmates.

I had a classmate in college from North Platte, Nebraska who had not owned a winter coat since the age of ten, because he was comfortable in just a shirt.

Most of us are just trying to connect with our audience be it family, friends, or classmates.

Emily, we're lucky here in sunny California: it rains very rarely in July and August, so we really don't need a rain plan Freedomforkids, it just so happens that my daughter is very close with a bunch of her girl classmates, which I understand is typical for 1st & 2nd graders.

In my family, we always stress that school is just like business, teachers and classmates deserve the consideration of being on time and looking ready to learn.

Just days after the massacre that left 17 of their classmates and teachers dead, student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have become prominent gun control activists.

Each of them were classmates of 15 - year - old Rohan Levy, who was shot and killed while hanging out with friends near his East Flatbush home just one year ago.

It became quickly apparent to me that I and my classmates were deficient and insufficient in just way too many areas in the care of women.

It helped me learn to step back and in words of fellow classmate,» be more in 3rd person», observe how I'm reacting as opposed to just being in the thick of stress.

I know all of the early adopters of Facebook are pissed that us old folks have taken over and that it is just a fancy version of what Classmates should have been 10 years ago.

Twenty minutes in, after a few gloriously violent tumbles with classmates and numerous prison wardens, the narrative sort of just sputters out.

A thank - you dinner later goes just as disastrously for Brad, but an extended conversation with an old classmate / friend of Troy's and Harvard music student, Anaya (Shazi Raja), contrasts Brad's world - weary cynicism against Anaya's youthful, exuberant idealism.

The Spectacular Now (R for profanity, sexuality and underage alcohol abuse) Screen adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel of the same name about a just - dumped, party animal (Miles Teller) with no plans for college who turns over a new leaf after making the acquaintance of a straight - laced classmate (Shailene Woodley) with no social life.

Meanwhile, Liam (Christian Isaiah) discovers just how different the Gallaghers are from the families of his rich classmates as Frank schools him on «sticking it to the man.»

Finally escaping the watchful eye of her strictly religious parents, sheltered college freshman Thelma (Eili Harboe) discovers that it's more than just poor social skills separating her from her new classmates.

Simon (Jason Bateman, quite good as a character whose offhand sarcasm is just the tip of the iceberg of his true nature), the former classmate, and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall, who remains consistently dependable at playing characters who are vulnerable without having the strength sapped from them) have bought a house in the suburbs.

Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel make their directing debut from a script they wrote themselves, and they've weaved a fun, darker comedy that doesn't just rely on Dan's emotional and sexual attraction to a classmate he admires for seemingly having the life of which he could only dream.

But after shadowing Victor (Radu Costin) for days on end, the jaded detective realizes that the kid is just a recreational user whose worst offense is offering to share some hashish with a couple of classmates.

Writer Jesse Andrews adapted the screenplay from his own novel, telling the story of a teenage filmmaker forced to befriend a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

These sentence frames also direct students back to the classmate to whom they're responding, reminding members of the discussion that all are part of a community of thinkers and that their conversation is with one another, not just with their teacher.

Beyond the future of just education and New Orleans, many HGSE students witnessed something remarkable in their classmates, whom they see everyday.

When students waste time, they not only make the teacher's job more difficult, they also take time from their classmates, most of whom are just sitting and waiting for activities to begin.

His classmates are busy marking up mapsâ $» labeling cities and countries and sketching in topographical featuresâ $» which demands the sort of pen - control he just doesn't have.

Just as students need to master reading, writing, and arithmetic, they also need to learn the importance of acting respectfully toward their teachers and classmates.

While Lucy and her classmates were immersed in their frog expedition, just down the hall, fifth graders were engaged in their own learning journey — an exploration of what it means to be a change maker in society.

What's clear after just a few minutes with Lucy and her classmates is that the six - year - olds have become experts: They can guide you through the life cycle of a frog — from the laying of the eggs (called frog spawn, Lucy explains) to the full - grown frog 12 - 16 weeks later.

Just as students need to master reading, writing, and «rithmetic, they also need to learn the importance of acting respectfully toward teachers and classmates.

His classmates are busy marking up maps — labeling cities and countries and sketching in topographical features — which demands the sort of pen - control he just doesn't have.

In our applied version of this approach (which we have gotten both from Mr. Berger and from educator Andy Tharby), we explain to a class that has just completed a draft of an essay (even a beginner's version) that first we, the teachers, are going to talk about one student's essay — what they did well and what they could do better — and then students are going to do the same with their classmates» essays.

Back then, it didn't really matter too much if you loved or hated them — sitting down with your classmates for a hot plate of food at midday in the school hall was just something we all did.

But that first day would be just the beginning; how else can I support him and also teach his classmates to respect him and all peers, regardless of their backgrounds or identities?

However, Newton — speaking for many of his classmates — says, «From an outsider's point of view, we don't have a lot of structure, but we just have a different definition of structure, and I feel like we're learning more by doing it that way.»

Those in the back mostly just see the heads of their fellow classmates.

Here, the objective is not just to explain their background to their classmates, but to examine what different aspects of that heritage symbolize to them personally.

He is charming, intelligent, creative, and full of energy, just like his 18 classmates.