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Jaden Ray
Ms. Wilson
First period
Feb. 28
Finding Myself
boyfriend. We dated for 10 months, and the relationship was healthy until the last few months.
We went through a lot of issues, and our arguments always seemed to end up breaking me down
and building him up. He struggled with a lot of anger, and he thought he could get what he
wanted without talking about it. I realized that he was the reason I was in such a bad place, so I
broke up with him. After breaking up with him, I was not happy for a very long time. I knew I
needed to change something in my life. In November 2017, I started to learn more about myself.
When I looked at myself, I knew something was missing. I realized that I liked girls the
same that I liked boys. I had never known anyone was felt like this way too, so it was hard to me
to tell myself it was okay. I did a lot of research, and saw that there were a lot of people like me.
There was a whole community that show support, love, and pride. I started to accept myself and
soon I was able to admit to myself I was bi. Even though it was better that I accepted myself, all
I could think about was if other people would accept me. I feared losing friends, and never
thought I would tell my family. I didn’t want to because we don’t have anyone in my family that
has ever talked about it in a good way. I feared that my family would have a hard time accepting
me, and wouldn’t want me to be. When I did tell my friends, some of them were very accepting,
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yet others didn’t like it and left. I understood that not everyone was going to accept me, and I
was okay with it. The hardest loss was one of my best friends. I was very scared to tell her,
because I wasn’t sure how she would react. When I finally told her, she seemed so happy for me
and excited. The next day, she ignored me and didn’t sit with me at lunch anymore. She wouldn’t
answer my texts and started talking about me behind my back. I learned to ignore people that did
that, but it was hard to accept that my best friend didn’t like me anymore.
For a while after that I was alone, until I found two friends that helped me so much.
Liana and Brianna were my people. They were right off the bat so loving and nice. Liana was a
main part of my life, and always helped me when I was down. After Bri and Li helped me with
being happy and loving myself, I finally told my mom. I told her in a terrible way, but she was
very surprised. At first she didn't know what to say, but then she was frustrated with me. She
didn't believe me for a very long time. She thought I was just saying this, and didn’t understand
what it was. We didn’t have a very good relationship for a while, and that was very hard for me
because I am always so close with my mom. She is the one person I can always go to, and it
wasn’t like that for a while. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I told her, but even though it was
After a few months, I met my first girlfriend. We worked really well together for a long
time, but towards the end we fell out of love, and decided we work better as friends. When we
started dating, that was a big stage for my mom and I. She was so nice about it and I finally felt
like we had our relationship back. Throughout dating Alex, I felt a love I had never received
before. It was a different relationship than I had ever had. It had more love and understanding
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than I had ever seen before. My mom saw this and saw how happy I was, so I believe she
It took a lot to get there, and to accept it. I went through a lot of self doubt, a lot of losing
friends, and it took a very to long time to be able to say that I was bisexual. I had to go through a
lot to find myself, and I had to learn many hard lessons.When I look back on my life, I always
see this as my biggest growth. While going through this, I learned to accept myself, to not live by
others approval, and I became a better version of myself. I found friends that accept me and are
good people. My family is so loving, and I am closer to my mom than ever. I have changed for
Score: /50
W.9-10.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and
well-structured event sequences.
Standard Exceptional (10-9) Proficient (8-7) Emerging (6-1) Not Evident (0)
3.a. Introduction - ❏ Effectively hook the ❏ Hook the reader with
Engage and orient the reader with a creative, a compelling hook
reader by setting out a original, and
compelling hook ❏ Effectively sets out a
problem, situation, or
problem, situation, or
observation, establishing ❏ Effectively sets out a observation
one or multiple point(s) problem, situation, or
of view, and introducing observation in a ❏ Establish an insightful
a narrator and/or compelling and/or point of view
characters; create a creative manner
smooth progression of ❏ Introduce a narrator,
❏ Establish an insightful, characters, setting,
experiences or events.
original, or creative and main idea
point of view
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❏ Introduce a complex
and/or creative
narrator, characters,
setting, and main idea