The two minute bell rings, kids are speedily walking towards their class, as the kids in Mr. Maciejko honors English class make their way into the classroom the students are excited to see their friends, they immediately start to talk and reminisce about their past class and who said what. The final bell rings, Mr. Maciejko calls the students to attention, “Students, will you please pull out your assigned reading book and quietly read for twenty minutes”. The kids rummage through their backpacks and take out their books and start to read; the daydreamer sitting next to the window lays their book on their desk and slowly move their eyes towards the morning assigned lunch hour students laughing and talking outside on the lawn. Meanwhile the boy a few rows to the right chews loudly on chips one by one as he inquisitively finishes a homework assignment. As the students read, the teacher moves around from his desk to the assignment turn in box, flustering through papers. Quickly grading the last few papers on Humanities and Society, consciously making the effort to give them the right grade as the pen moves from finger to finger with a furrowed brow. When he is finished he passes them back to the rightful owner and tells the students to stop reading and to focus on the vocabulary test coming up next class. As he floats form one side to the next grunts come from the students concerning their grade, comparing with one another saying, “he marked me down for my punctuation”, or “eh, I did ok, given the fact it was done last night”. The students put their papers away happy or disappointed transition into the next subject for the class. The next day, the same occurrence, students bustle by getting to their class in time. Students stomp into class, drop their bags and quickly bounce around form side to side laughing and talking loudly about their life thus far. Mr. Maciejko reminds the students to settle down multiple times, as the final bell rings the students are sitting on the desk tossing paper to and fro; Mr. Maciejko struggles to keep the rambunctious group quiet. He raises his voice over the others to be heard, “Students! Please sit in the chairs and pull out your reading packets and begin example three, now”. He goes to his desk and turns on one soothing music; meanwhile, as the students grunt, and whine and pull themselves together and start their work. Mr. Maciejko walks from student to student attentively attending to each one with questions concerning the bell ringer. Whispers from the back of the room distract those around them; one boy slips a note to a girl trying her best to concentrate. Mr. Maciejko stops his task with one student to attend to those not focusing, as he does so the classroom settles down the noise level dies down, the music can be heard. “It’s a challenge to digress from a class that has so much self-government, and will to do their work to a class full of students whose level of intellect needs more attention.” He described the two being of two different natures, “you can really see the difference in the home lives of students and that really places emphasize on how dedicated they are to doing their homework and how you, as a teacher, must attend to those challenges they face. I have had many a times where I had to sit down with a student after school and work through their homework with them”. A student from the regular English class fidgets and fumbles with his pencil, working the whole allotted time and then some on the bell ringer. “The greatest reward from teaching is the gratification I receive when a previous student comes to me and thanks me for the dedication and belief I had in them”. Meanwhile in the honors English class, a girl eagerly answers a question pertaining to the lesson, giving details and explanation to her answer. Another student follows up on her answer and a meaningful discussion breaks out between the students, “It is a break from the other English classes only in the sense that they really know how to self-govern themselves and know how to answer and be receptive to the material given, I do enjoy both classes and I feel a sense of pride in each of my students when they are responding positively to the task in front of them.” As the class comes to an end the honor English students ask questions concerning the homework and what the test will cover and what chapters to read and review over. As Mr. Maciejko answers the students jot down every detail on their planners and thank him once class ends. While Mr. Maciejko takes the initiative to tell the other classes their homework and what to do to prepare for the next class, the students doodle and let their minds wander, they leave in a rush from the class to get to lunch. “All in all, at the end of the day I am truly blessed to be able to teach these students and to do what I love. They do come from hard backgrounds or from sound ones and in the long run I can see a dramatic difference in their reading levels, writing levels and listening skills when I put my best effort into teaching them”.