Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned From An Exceptional Student

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I went from an exceptional student to one who talks back. Since freshman year Mrs. R had been my favorite teacher, even though I did not have her until I was a junior. She was kind and always there if you needed to take a breather in her class, or simply do whatever you needed to on the computer, if it was your lunch. I've heard students complain about how they did not like her and how annoying she was. However, I couldn't understand why they felt that way about Mrs. R. I never saw her the way they did.

Every day I would go to her class, sit quietly and do the assignment given. I was a well mannered student in her class, who you would never hear from, until the middle of senior year. A big assignment was given, the topic was to write an essay on what you learned in the class. It was sad because I honestly didn't learn much from her careers class. We honestly did nothing but use the computers for our personal use. Some would be on YouTube, others would shop. From time to time she would give out an assignment. With no knowledge from the class I decided to explain how nothing was learned. She proceeded to tell us that we could not write about learning nothing. Not knowing what topic to use, I decided to write about what I had learned from a previous assignment. I completed it and went about my day. She had previously told us we couldn't use the computers unless we were doing the assignment given. I figured since I had finished it early I could use it. Not a minute later did I realized that was a mistake. Memoir Brave 2 I could feel her hovering over me, something she loves to do, she began to raise her voice at me as if I were a toddler who had just done something terribly wrong. I explained how I have already submitted the assignment. She then
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Or why she addressed the situation the way she did. My excessive questions made her think I was misbehaving and acting out causing her to get angry with me which caused me to retaliate in frustration. I'm not one to blow things out of proportion, I was only trying to figure out what I had to fix and how to fix it. Which caused her to get defensive and react the way she did. Giving her a slight attitude out of anger prior to the third quarter ending almost caused me to fail that marking period. Mainly because our behavior was a majority of our grade.

Since that day I no longer saw her the way freshman Vawica did. The sweet and kind woman I knew had disappeared. As if she never truly existed. It must have been a mask she wore
Memoir Brave 3 exceptionally well. I’ve seen her turn simple situations into something it wasn’t. Suspending students for speaking on something she didn’t agree with, if she felt offended. I thought she would fail me, because she gave out D’s like it was popular. But since I’ve passed all the other marking periods and completed her assignment the way she wanted us to, she had no choice but to pass me. If only she had simply spoke to me calmly and told me how I had to correct my mistakes it truly would not have ended the way it

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