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McDowell Middle School

The image above represents my school. This year is McDowell’s 50th anniversary, so I’m going to tell you a little bit about my everyday life here, and some things about my school. To start off I usually get to school around 7:40, and my dad drives me to school. School starts at about 7:55 and ends at 2:33. That’s when I ride the bus home and get home at about 2:45. During the school day I have seven periods, which include math, science, Ela, lunch, AE, social studies, technology, and guided study. Guided study and AE are study periods where I work on my assignments or things I didn’t get done in other classes. Each period is about 50 minutes long, except for my 5th period which is actually an hour long. Overall, the day goes by pretty fast and is decently fun. 

 

We don’t choose what subjects we get to learn, but we do get to choose between band, choir, guided study, and gym class at the end of our 6th grade year. The other classes are pretty much assigned to us and we have to go to them everyday. Each class typically has a different teacher unless your AE or guided study teacher has another class that they teach. A really important tool that we use everyday is a Chromebook which is basically a computer that the school monitors. It helps us in a way so that we don’t have to keep track of a bunch of papers, everything’s just online. 

 

The school grounds of McDowell aren’t super interesting, but at the same time they are unique. My school is right across the road from a cornfield and the building in front of ours in the Logan Elm high school. My school is located right outside of a town called Circleville. Other than that it’s typically like your average school. We have a basketball court, a tennis court, a football field, and right beside my school construction workers are building a new school for the Logan Elm district. It’s going to have an elementary school, middle school, and high school all together. Hopefully this helps you picture what my school is like, and somewhat of what it looks like.