From Catholic to Public

Easton Area High School

Holy Family School K-8

     I started school in a private catholic school called Holy Family. At the end of first grade they started to teach me how write in cursive, and by second grade it was weird to write in print. I started to read in kindergarten and, by first grade I had it down pretty well. I still remember the pale yellow walls that were in my first grade classroom. My teacher's bright red frizzy hair always stood out from the background. She picked me out of the group and really cared for me. She was saw that I was above the other students so she always made sure I was challenged. After the fourth grade, I switched to Easton Area Middle School. That was a huge change. I went from going to church every Friday during school to the ISS room being right down the halls. Every once in a while their would be an explosive outburst from a kid who didn't get his way, while I sat in Reading putting sentences in the right order. In all of my classes from then to high school their would be one or two big essay's a year. In high school our assignments became more focused on analyzing and drawing meaning from words that do not outright state their purpose. This year we read The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. That was a tough book to understand, but it lead to a lot of real world discussions with my classmates. We discussed marriage, religion, women in the military, and many other controversial topics. It was really great to see my peers opinions compared to my own. I think as I progressed on in my literary education it became more and more relevant to the real world. Those connections can sometimes be hard to make, but this year in particular opened my eyes to a whole different world. This world is scrawled across pages in every book you pick up. Each one giving a little bit more insight on how the world really works.