Take This Advice...

This post if for JUNIORS only.

Last week you wrote advice to your younger, ten-year-old self. Below you'll find some of it - organized by the period in which it was written. Toby, from A Boy's Life, could use some of your advice. Your task is as follows:

Select a piece of advice from your class period that you think would best help Toby. Then, in a thoughtful, thorough, multi-paragraph, short essay, explain why and how that piece of advice would benefit Toby.

Use the following criteria as a revision checklist:

• correct spelling and capitalization
• multiple paragraphs
• specific details
• at least one cited quotation
• no first person (I, me, we, us, my, myself, our, mine, ourselves) or second person (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves) - except when used in a cited quotation

Please ask a teacher if you have any questions.

PERIOD 1

• Good friends accept you for who you are: you don’t have to act like someone else to impress them.
• Never judge a person by how they look.
• Not everyone is going to judge you as harshly as you assume they will.
• Nobody stays around forever. Don’t let this upset you, because there are so many others to meet down the road.

 

PERIOD 3

• Make sure your parents know how much you care about them.
• Make sure you lean from your bad decisions.
• When your parents fight or divorce, make sure you remember that it’s not about you and it’s not your fault.
• You shouldn’t trust everyone. They should earn YOUR trust.

 

PERIOD 7

• Some things you might see as a huge problem to get upset about are actually very small. Don’t get upset because later on these things won’t matter to you.
• Telling the truth is better than lying. You might get yourself in trouble, but as long as the truth comes out, you won’t feel as guilty.
• Do not worry too much about mistakes, because making mistakes is part of growing up.
• Life is a pain. You will have a hard time adapting to new situations, but you will learn to deal with it.