Wednesday, October 6, 2010
My Role Model
Growing up with 6 children and a husband that was never around my grandmother worked as hard as she could to keep her family in tact. In the 1950's She was a school teacher in Mount Vernon. At that time, as well as in present day Mount Vernon is a dangerous place with a very low success of kids passing. Crime is out of hand in the city and when she first applied there they told her she did not want the job and couldn't handle it. Well 42 years later she was still teaching there and never once complained. Having to maintain a home as well as 6 children, while trying to work at a school five days a week and also a local restaurant on weekends just to get by and just to support everyone she never once complained. She chose a school that was designed to fail, a school that had no more then a 50% pass rate for that time and wanted to make a change. I'm going to school to be a teacher and i would love to do what she did and go to a school that i can make a difference.
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Your grandmother seems like an amazing person! I really like the first sentance of this paragraph, it immediately had my attention and got me interested in what you were saying. Its really impressive that she put that many years into working at one school. I also liked that you added that you would like to become a teacher at the end. It sort of connects why you admire and want to be like your grandmother. Good luck with your degree!
ReplyDeleteYour opening statement caught my eye as well. I think that it's great you're writing about your grandma and I also think that saying focused on writing about her influence on you relating to how you want to be a teacher will really connect and make a great Role Model project. Your grandmother sounds like a very inspiring and hardworking individual.
ReplyDeleteits easy to see why you look up to your grandmother. She sounds like a really strong, impressive person. your stories help really contribute to why you look up to her just be careful of how you incorporate them so they dont sound like just a biography
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