When Lincoln leaves San Francisco to spend their summer in Japan, he was thinking that he was going to spend all of his summer practicing Shōrinji Kenpō (A martial art). But once he arrived in Japan and meets his host family, he discovers that won't just be spending his summer practicing Kenpō. ... One of the strategies that helped my comprehension was summarizing because it helped me think of what I was reading, it also made me make sure that I actually understood what I was reading. ...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She meets a friend in her new school but when she goes away for the summer all bad things begin to happen. ... My opinion on this book was that I thought it was a nice easy book to read and it wasn't those types of books that you wanted to watch television instead of reading. It was a book that you couldn't put down and I would know because boring books you just don't keep reading. ...

• Word Count: 383
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

For the past seven years, I have been going on summer mission trips with my youth group. ... Just keeping up with these relationships alone has taught me a great deal about myself and about people in general, and forces me, each summer, to assess my own personal growth and document it in these letters. ... One day I had the amazing opportunity to help a young girl about the age of 9 to improve her reading skills. I was reading Jane Eyre for school before dinner, when she came up to me and asked what I was doing. ...

• Word Count: 760
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Having failed English 1301 previously and knowing I haven't worked on any grammar or sentence structures in summer caused me to be a bit nervous taking the pre-test. ... I carefully took my time, reading each question and answering the best way I could. ...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As I have branched out to reading and watching books, and film. ... Last summer I worked at the Rehabilitation Centre in the Speech Therapy Department, as a student trainee and translator between therapist and patient. ...

• Word Count: 646
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He talked about one laboring job in particular that he acquired one summer. ... After he graduated from Stanford a friend told him about this summer construction job he knew was available. ... Through reading this book I understand somewhat more of what minorities in our country have to go through. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I have been working at People's Institute Childcare Center for almost seven years. During these years, I have worked with many different age groups. I have worked with two years olds all the way up to five year olds. I have only worked full time as a co-lead teacher in the toddler room, which is age...

• Word Count: 4619
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School