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THE ultimate guide to seventh grade, the new building, and the unseen rules. Yes, things you won’t hear anywhere else, no matter what anyone tells you.
THE FIRST COUPLE DAYS – The ultimate thing every newbie is afraid of are lockers. Sure you had them before, but now they have locks….and an ultra-secret uber-important combination. Make it easier on yourself by only remembering your first two numbers, the third isn’t needed, just twist until it locks, then twist the last stretch and lift up. By the way, it’s clockwise to your first number, counterclockwise to the second(make sure you pass the number once then hit it), and back until it clicks. Absolute no-no – telling ANYONE your combo. No matter who they are, your best friend or your boyfriend, don’t tell them. Most likely you’ll have some sort of fight and they’ll get into your locker and trash your stuff. If you tell anyone, it will be all over the school in a matter of weeks. You’ll end up missing valuable something or other. Also, don’t worry about your locker getting stuck. Teachers are constantly roaming the halls to help you out. The eighth-graders and high schoolers WILL laugh and make fun of you; forget them. They were seventh graders once. Just for the record, backpacks won’t fit. You’ll have to invest in a knapsack or an extremely big purse. Sun bags would also work, but be prepared to squish them into the tiny 2 x 2 space.
HOMEWORK – Teachers and older students will tell you, do A day homework A days, and B day work on B days. Do exactly that, and don’t complain. Keep a steady pace going, don’t slack off one day then have tons of homework the next, that will result in a brain overload and malfunction. Don’t put it off until the weekend either, you don’t want to be stuck doing homework on your free days too. Math and language are do the next day anyways, why not do everything at once? Snow days will also cause problems if you get into the wrong habit. If it snows on a B day, the next day back will be an A day. Your homework would still be at school, not completed; oops.
TEACHERS AND GRADES – Most classes aren’t very difficult anyways. Teachers are relatively nice and if you cooperate, can be quite fun. Here are a few tips to keep up your grade and get on the teacher’s good side – 1. At the beginning of each semester your old grades get erased; a clean slate; make the most of it. The first grades gotten will make or break you. They set your starting point, from there they can go up or down slightly, but nothing big. So, start out with A’s, and it will be easier to maintain one. 2. Make the most of your time for work in class. Many students complain about wanting to go home and just hangout and chill. So, they’re too lazy to do homework and study, therefore murdering their grades. One, being lazy isn’t a good habit to get into, two, hangout on the weekends, and three, it will just get harder from here on out. Create a good name for yourself now. 3. Be polite. Not to loud, not annoying, but just enough to express yourself. Show respect at all times, even to the librarians who seem to hate your little seventh grade guts. 4. The library – get in, get out. Don’t talk, you’ll make Mrs. Jones angry…which doesn’t seem to be a hard thing to do.
LUNCH – Simply find a table not being used by the eighth graders, and sit there repeatedly day after day. It’s pretty much like that, unsaid assigned tables. Never, Ever, steal an older student’s table, unless your committing suicide. There are three lunch periods, first, second, and third. Second is sometimes called split lunch. That’s the one you want. It’s from 11:58 – 12:28, right in the middle of your class. Most jr.highers have this, but some have first lunch. None will have third. First intermingles you with seniors and other upperclassmen. Be afraid, be very afraid. The menu – Many complain about the food served, but it’s probably more variety than what you get at home. Just get the regular lunch, and eat it all. No need to go to the overly expensive ala carte. And if you think it looks cool, just getting three ice creams and some nachos everyday, you’re wrong. Those who eat regular lunch are more likely healthier, skinnier, and have more money to kill. If there’s something in the ala carte you can’t live without though, you can probably pawn something off the dimwits that didn’t read this to learn said valuable trick. Also, in the lunch line, don’t budge. Ever; the lunch ladies will get ticked, the eighth graders will complain, and you’ll have to go to the end. Even then, if you show hostility to the lunch ladies, they may short you on your dessert, just you watch. So make friends with them! You never know what’ll be left over…
GYM – You’ll probably freak out when told you have to run and walk for five minutes every morning, but you get used to it. The bonus from that is the fact that there’s only two pacer tests a year, and there’s no number you really have to get. You might even skip one, if you have health that quarter. Yes, you have to take health, you can’t get out of it. Not even with a parent’s note and what-not. Just tough it out, act mature, and complete the worksheets. Lano really isn’t that bad; he’s truly funny, and tells weird stories, but you’re pretty much guaranteed an “interesting” time. Once you figure out his pattern, you might think doing worksheets is a waste of time, he doesn’t really check them. Well, they’ve got to be filled out, and you need the correct answer if you get called on. So, do with them what you will, but at least fill them out. The weight rooms are to your benefit, no matter how terrible they seem. If you haven’t yet noticed, many of Dakota’s students are fairly buff, boys and girls. It’s totally cool to be seen as a stronger person, not weak and defenseless. (That won’t get you anywhere with older kids.) The thing is, there is a boy’s and a girl’s weight room, no matter what Spensley says. The guys get the hardcore big weight room, with all those scary looking pieces of equipment, and the girls get the circuit. The circuit is just past the teacher’s lounge, which is pretty cool saying in elementary school people hardly even knew there was one, let alone saw it. It’s just called the circuit because it’s a whole doughnut of high-tech machines for almost every muscle, and you’re supposed to do the whole thing in about 30 minutes. It’s really neat, especially if you want to build up certain muscles.
RANDOM FACTS – 1. Your calculator will break if it drops. It will make a loud uncanny noise, and be flung to random parts of the hallway. Don’t be too embarrassed, it happens to everyone. 2. Make friends with the upperclassmen. Either make friends with the people your sibling hangs out with, or maybe people you know from special events or groups. Never approach anyone and expect them to talk to you. They will call you names, and walk away. 3. In the high school, everyone is a lot closer. Interpret that how you wish, but never touch anyone. You’ll learn to dodge and swerve quickly and swiftly, I guarantee it. Just get where you’re going, and fast. 4. If you’re thinking about signing up for student council, do it your eighth grade year. Being the seventh graders, you won’t get much say. One, because you have less experience, and two, because you’re younger, and we get more say. I speak from experience, sign up next year. 5. Assemblies – Just go to them. Sit in your designated area,(the left side if facing the middle of the gym), sit with your friends, and just talk through it. If we become football champs again, be aware of all the pep assemblies. Nothing great. Just the band, the cheerleaders, and some ‘pep’ talking. 6. Even though it’s cool, even though you can talk to your buddies in school, don’t carry your phone around. Teachers will confiscate it, and you won’t be getting it back anytime soon. The people that can’t handle not talking to their buddies in class are frowned upon, and generally have worse grades. Honestly, if you carry it around and text on it, I hope you get it taken away. Maybe you’ll learn your lesson. 7. Make friends with Mr. Davis. You’re in for a good time. 8. Just do your work. It isn’t hard. If teachers learn to trust you, they’ll send you on fun missions around the school, and trust you to do excruciatingly important things. Don’t procrastinate either. It doesn’t work. Do it right away, so you don’t have the stress of doing it on the bus the morning it’s due. 9. If you just listen and pay attention in class, you’ll ace the tests and worksheets, “fo sho.” I speak from experience, you don’t even need to study. BUT, IF YOU DON’T LISTEN AND DO YOUR WORK, YOU WILL NEED TO STUDY. P.S. This works best in geography, trust me.
So, in short you have a guide to beginning seventh grade. The rest you can figure out by yourself. Observe, do your work, don’t tell your combo, and just go with the flow. If you have any further questions, just ask me.