Marvell Conner III
English Composition
Professor Lahmon
January 19, 2015

Words of Wisdom

It was a typical dulI Monday as I walked into class that day, I grabbed a seat next to the class clown and waited for him to begin his daily routine of joking. The class was pretty much boring, until he began to joke,but he did not begin to joke until the substitute would come around to check to see if we were doing our work. As she roamed around the room to make sure we were on task in doing the work, she would ask questions from the work unexpectedly, hoping she wouldn't call on me. “Marvell, What forms clastic sedimentary rocks and how are they named?” I looked around the classroom occupied with twenty-nine other students and felt a rush of a chills run down my spine as all of their eyes pierced through my skin. I knew I didn't know the answer and everyone else did too. “Umm, is it umm, I don't know Ms. Palmer” I mumbled. She looked at me in disbelieve and I knew she was disappointed in me. I was really upset with myself so turned and put my head down, until fifteen minutes later the class clown started.

I remember the words “Everyone is failing, and it is close to the time where reports will be going out”, which were said by the permanent sub of my seventh grade science class. Some payed attention to what she said and some went on with their conversations. At that time, the sub had been there for about four months, due to our teacher being on maternity leave. Our original teacher had left her lesson plans and all of the work that we were supposed to do, but most of the time we would just go in to the class and just talk and play around.I am the oldest of my moms children and the second youngest child on my fathers children. I thought to myself that i want to be the first of my mothers children to be a good student and succeed in life and set the tone for my three younger siblings,so that they can do it too. With my fathers side of things i wanted to keep the children success going because the first four of my fathers children had gone to college already or were enrolled and attending at the time. When the the sub told us that everyone is failing, I not only payed attention to what she said, i took action and found out what i could do to up my grade. Failing made me realize that i was being a follower and that I needed to follow my own path and become a better student and lead others to do their own work.

I had begun to sit by myself and ask the teacher for all of the work that we were to have done. I could feel myself becoming a better student because I could see myself taking action and leading myself to success and not to failure. As time progressed, the sub had came to me and said “you're improving and you are becoming a leader to the class”. I thought to myself that this is where i want to be and should keep it this way because failure is not a good idea. Soon, some of my fellow classmates began to come and sit with me and wanted to do their work with me. Of course I accepted to work together, but everyone had to contribute in some way.

Even though I don't like reading or writing they both have played a huge roll in me being a student. They've gotten my vocabulary better, they've allowed me to learn new things about the world, and they have made life that much easier. Being able to read and write has lead to many successes such as; helping me to write a college essay and get accepted by a couple of colleges so far, it helped me pass the interpersonal communications and it also helped me OGT's on the first try.
Without being able to read or write you wouldn't be able to do anything in the world. Reading is used for everything in the world. You must be able to read signs, read books, count money, and a whole lot of things. Reading has made my life so much easier because the world basically revolves around it and if I couldn't read or write things would not be going as well as it is now for me. Being able to read makes me feel I have accomplished something. There are people who struggle at reading and need help throughout their life beside everything involves reading. It's hard for anybody that can't read because so much revokes around reading. Doing this essay makes me look at how important it is to be able to read and write, so this is a huge success.

My strengths have always been to be good at math and to be a leader to anyone who has wanted to be lead in a good direction, which has made me go hard in school and and during my extracurricular activities. The soccer field, the track, and the baseball diamond are all places where i must lead everyone to success.

Going back to the kindergarden, i can remember my teacher Mr. Skinner telling me “You're a smart kid Marvell, but no one is going to know how smart you are until you give all your effort in school and show them”. In the fifth grade i remembered that moment because i realized that i was not leading and showing anyone that i was a smart kid. Now i look back at that moment all the time and try to show everyone how smart of a kid i am and it makes me want to just be the most outstanding, hardworking agent in the world now to show that i once will be a man.