My story is about how an experience with a high school teacher saved me. At the time I was in the eleventh grade. It was the only time I had acting class during my high school experience. Although I hated …
Category: Unit 1
Mentor Quote – Jerick
“You’re lazy, you don’t do anything anymore, You’ve became a worthless nobody.” – Myself
Most quotes I usually remember come from myself, whether they are negative ones or positive ones. This one in particular I usually keep in my head …
Mentor quote- Mohammad
“You need to eat more”
That’s honestly a sentence I used to hear a lot by all of my family members. Whenever there was any sort of family gathering everyone would say something in the lines of how skinny I …
Mentor Quote- Ruth
“You need to start surrounding yourself with people who believe in you.”
Those were the words my mother said to me as I’m panicking for my presentation. Throughout my four years of high school I hated presentations. I never really …
Mentor Quote – Zubair Abdullah
“I bet you he (me) is going to fail that test”
I had a time when I had to overcome somebody’s mistaken perception of my ability when I was in school before the covid days. I was not known as …
mentor quote – Henly Santana
“You need more classes for you to pass you’re driving exam,” said my instructor {Juan}. His words made me feel negative towards my test and also him, if he was a good teacher he would show me the works rather …
Mentor Quote- Elaine Houston
“Bottom Of the Barrel”
When I first moved to the US, I remember going to school for the first time, I was able to meet my teacher and the principal. I remember them saying to my mom that I would …
Mentor Quote-Jazmyn
“Is this supposed to be your work? You can do better than this.”
Mid Covid English Teacher
Back then, and even still today, I hated being labelled as anything negative. Especially when I felt as though the person who said …
Ment0r Quote -Derek Contreras
“You’ll never graduate at this rate.”
Those were the words that echoed in my mind from a teacher who saw my struggles as evidence that I wouldn’t succeed. For a while, I believed them too. The weight of those words …
Mentor Quote – Nael Ottman
A time when an authority figure said something negative to me and I challenged their words was when my English teacher from high school said “Even your siblings put more effort than you did”. He said that because my older …
