Passion

I have a passion for TV because if all else fails I know there will always be a television show to watch. From reality TV to cartoons I've watch it all. The show I watch the most is Sponge Bob because it comes on all the time and I watch it everyday before I go to school and even when I come home from school. I've probably watched every single episodes of Sponge Bob. I was sad when a couple of years ago I heard they where taking it off the air, luckily Barack Obama's children also love watching Sponge Bob and he was able to bring it back😸. I watch many other shows like Bad girls club, If loving you is wrong,and The Walking Dead these are very different shows and I like that because I hate repetition I hate seeing or hearing the same thing over and over again and that's shows provided me with versatility entertainment wise. Watching these shows give me relief from my everyday life because sometimes life gets frustrating and you just want to get away from it all and for me my go to place is TV.📺📺📺 I have inserted a picture of a couch potato and it is a a perfect representation of me from the bag of chips, soda, and garbage laying around while i'm watching TV. I'm a couch potato because I can literally sit and watch TV all day long with no problem and not see outside. Bye

Personal statment (extra credit)

Shaleena Campbell

                                                       3^rd Draft

Starting in the ninth grade I started tutoring a second grader named Bryanna Gomez, a little girl who lived in the apartment next to me. Prior to tutoring her, I had never talked, let alone seen her or her family in my building before. So it was surprising when her mother asked me to help her out. In the back of my mind I was unsure of ability to help another human being with their homework. I was worried because I was not the kid in the class who had all the answer, the person who even passed test with a high grade. Despite the my average school work I decided to tutor her for two years straight every other day of my ninth and tenth grades school year.

The routine for me every day was go to school, then to Harlem Children Zone, and then at six go to her house to tutor her. Walking into her home, I was always emerged in a blast of heat and the look of appetizing food that was always being cooked. Day after day we would sit on her couch doing her HW; she had the basics reading, writing, and math but you couldn’t tell her that she acted a like her teacher gave her pre-calculus math homework instead of second grade math. It would be agitating at times because her parent’s barely spoke English and it was difficult for me to communicate with her parents about things she was having trouble with. Not being able to communicate

played a big part because information would get mixed, up but by the time I was finished working with her I solved our communication problem with patience. 

During this time, I had a lot to do between juggling HW and extracurricular activities. I considered quitting, but I couldn’t because if I was to it would eat me up inside until I felt bad enough to start tutoring her again. So I stuck with it and made a plan to start doing my homework before I tutored her so that when I got home I would have time to relax. My plan work and I was able to get my HW done and it no longer was a problem.

At the end of the school year, Bryanna took her state test and she failed. I felt horrible because I considered it to be my fault because I was the one helping her with her school work and I didn’t realize she was having that much of a problem. I talked to her teacher and found out that Bryanna only answered six questions in the whole entire test and was getting left back in the second grade. I thought that her mom was going to fire me. I was so scared that I avoided talking to her for a few days, but she understood that I can’t be there to take the test with her. It was up to Bryanna to use what she learns with me on her school work. After finding out she was getting left back, I decided to reevaluate the way I was tutoring, I wouldn’t let this set me and Bryanna back. I found ways to efficiently tutor her during the summer by using the recourses around me to find worksheets and flashcards to further help her.

Experiencing this failure with Bryanna taught me to revaluate problems and figure out ways to fix them. When Bryanna failed I avoided the situation but I’ve learned not to do that because it would not benefit me or her. That I should tackle problems head on to overcome it. Also taught me how to juggle different things I have to do and that has come in handy numerous time this year with my school work and my job.

Class response

In class we are reading the a book called Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. So far I know it's about a person named Guy

(I'm not sure if that's his name) who is a fireman and in this book instead of putting out fires he starts them. His job is to start fires with banned books because the books give people ideas of rebellion and things of that nature. With the class I've read maybe 13 pages and in the 13 pages the character guy meets a this teenager who has him reevaluating his thinks feeling and thoughts. The girl he meets thinks outside of the ideas given to her to think about. So far from the story it seems like she likes to read books and her and the main character will go through some type experience because she likes to read books. In the book there is a qoute that says something like if they give you ruled paper right the other way. I think that the girl he meet is an example of that qoute. Also in the book the main character guy comes home to his wife trying to kill herself. I thought this was intresting and I wanted o find out why she was killing herself but unfortunately I have not read past that part. So far I like the book it's not to boring I look forward to the end of the book to see what happens.