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Jade Ramos - 10th Grade Student, Owings Mills High School
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Jade Ramos is a 10th grade student at Owings Mills High School. She is a member of the OMHS Dance Team and was also a member of her middle school’s dance team for two years. She plays the viola in her school’s orchestra and has been playing for 6 years now. She is the middle child in her family and enjoys being with her friends. Her favorite subject is American Governments because she enjoys hearing different people’s viewpoints about the same problem.
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November 2017
This past quarter has been full of change. My freshman year was all about adjusting and really making a comfortable transition from middle school to high school. Now that I have had a year to adapt to everything, I am now expected to have a larger and more rigorous workload. I have taken on two AP classes this year. These classes would include AP Human Geography and AP World History. I would definitely say that these two classes are some of the most challenging classes on my schedule. There is a lot of note taking, projects, and worksheets required for each class. This is where my device comes in. My teachers require our devices to be brought into class every day, fully charged. It is important that we do so because without our devices we have no way of accessing articles posted on our lesson tiles, no way of accessing the handout that we are completing for the article, and no way of turning in the work. I often times find myself at home with a question about an assignment, or am in need of some reassurance about the current topic we have been learning about. Though I may become frustrated for not understanding something, I do not panic because I know that my teachers are only a message away, and within an instant I am able to understand the work. These devices have prevented my first quarter back in school from being as stressful as it could be because of the information I need is right at my fingertips.
This past quarter has been full of change. My freshman year was all about adjusting and really making a comfortable transition from middle school to high school. Now that I have had a year to adapt to everything, I am now expected to have a larger and more rigorous workload. I have taken on two AP classes this year. These classes would include AP Human Geography and AP World History. I would definitely say that these two classes are some of the most challenging classes on my schedule. There is a lot of note taking, projects, and worksheets required for each class. This is where my device comes in. My teachers require our devices to be brought into class every day, fully charged. It is important that we do so because without our devices we have no way of accessing articles posted on our lesson tiles, no way of accessing the handout that we are completing for the article, and no way of turning in the work. I often times find myself at home with a question about an assignment, or am in need of some reassurance about the current topic we have been learning about. Though I may become frustrated for not understanding something, I do not panic because I know that my teachers are only a message away, and within an instant I am able to understand the work. These devices have prevented my first quarter back in school from being as stressful as it could be because of the information I need is right at my fingertips.
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