Hey guys, Ben back with another blog. I am sure everyone knows what a "Domino Effect" is. Well, for this blog, we have to write about one that happened in any point of our lives. I remember this one very clearly. This happened back in 3d grade.
So in 3d grade we had a teacher that gave us Subtraction, Multiplication, and Addition "Pop Quiz's" after recess every day. And oh my gosh I hated those. We were only given a minute to do 20 problems which included 8x4 and 72 - 21 and stuff like that. At the time I thought they were counted as grades, and I was really self conscious about my grades because I was the smart kid in the family. But they were just for fun. I didn't know that, so I always wanted to ace them. I was only in 3d grade, so I knew how to subtract, add, and do a bit of multiplication, so whenever I tried it, I got an average of 70% - 80% which isn't that bad.
So me and my table partner agreed that we would do them all at home (Because we were given the whole packet in advance) and when we got around after recess, we would just pretend to be writing stuff, and when time was up and we had to switch papers to correct it, we always got 100%. Now that I think about it we could of just written "100%" on the paper, but we were dumb. We thought we were so clever thinking of this and it worked to the end of 3d grade.
But when I got into 4th grade, I realized that I never knew how to subtract and multiply large numbers on paper in a given amount of time, so when we had a pop quiz in the beginning of the school year, I didn't get it in advanced and my table partner from the year before was in a different class, so I absolutely failed. Doesn't sound bad, huh? The bad thing was when the teacher read out scores out loud, everyone was getting 100% and 95% and it was a perfect chain of good scores, and all of a sudden you year the teacher say "Ben Murray... 45%..." And everyone turned to me and started bus laughing. I was really embarrassed.
In conclusion, I guess the moral of the story is to do the assigned work and don't cheat your education, because it will haunt you. Now that I look back it was kind of funny, but the past is the past. I decided to improve in 5th grade, and look! Now I am in Advanced Media! it was a domino effect that ended up bad, but it changed me and got me where I am now! Bye!
So in 3d grade we had a teacher that gave us Subtraction, Multiplication, and Addition "Pop Quiz's" after recess every day. And oh my gosh I hated those. We were only given a minute to do 20 problems which included 8x4 and 72 - 21 and stuff like that. At the time I thought they were counted as grades, and I was really self conscious about my grades because I was the smart kid in the family. But they were just for fun. I didn't know that, so I always wanted to ace them. I was only in 3d grade, so I knew how to subtract, add, and do a bit of multiplication, so whenever I tried it, I got an average of 70% - 80% which isn't that bad.
So me and my table partner agreed that we would do them all at home (Because we were given the whole packet in advance) and when we got around after recess, we would just pretend to be writing stuff, and when time was up and we had to switch papers to correct it, we always got 100%. Now that I think about it we could of just written "100%" on the paper, but we were dumb. We thought we were so clever thinking of this and it worked to the end of 3d grade.
But when I got into 4th grade, I realized that I never knew how to subtract and multiply large numbers on paper in a given amount of time, so when we had a pop quiz in the beginning of the school year, I didn't get it in advanced and my table partner from the year before was in a different class, so I absolutely failed. Doesn't sound bad, huh? The bad thing was when the teacher read out scores out loud, everyone was getting 100% and 95% and it was a perfect chain of good scores, and all of a sudden you year the teacher say "Ben Murray... 45%..." And everyone turned to me and started bus laughing. I was really embarrassed.
In conclusion, I guess the moral of the story is to do the assigned work and don't cheat your education, because it will haunt you. Now that I look back it was kind of funny, but the past is the past. I decided to improve in 5th grade, and look! Now I am in Advanced Media! it was a domino effect that ended up bad, but it changed me and got me where I am now! Bye!
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