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High School: The First Essay Everyone can remember the first time they had to write an essay for high school. The first prompt I had to write about was three words that described myself that I think my teacher should know about me. I thought it was going to be impossible to write an entire essay describing myself. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was going to write about, how it was going to sound, whether or not my words fit the prompt, and a lot less time actually writing the paper. I thought my paper was golden by the time I finally got done writing it. I had my mom proofread it and she thought it was a pretty decent paper, and right then, I knew in my mind that there was no way I wasn’t getting an A. Well, until I got the grade back on my ‘golden’ paper. I could go straight to what I ended up getting on my essay, but it’s better to hear the entire story. To start off, I was apart of this program in high school called Humanities, where I had t wo different teachers for English and History, but they overlapped what they were teaching and we would often have one project with several components for both classes. My English teacher, Mr. Bruns, thought that since we were going to have him for the next four years of our lives, it would be important for him to get to know more about us. Did I mention that we got this writing assignment on our first day on high school? And that it was due the next day? There I was, on my first day of high school,Show MoreRelatedThe First Amendment in High School Essay867 Words   |  4 Pagesthe age that a person should be able to claim rights under the first amendment? The first thing would come to most peoples mind is eighteen. 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