Writing Remix- Poem

Life Long Lessons

It was the first day,

Grades, Relationships, and Looks

Came running after her like they were playing tag.

She doesn’t want to get caught, but if she did,

Which would she pick?

Her boyfriend called her when she got home,

Insisting that she come hangout.

Grades almost caught

Her when Relationships and Looks came and pushed him out the way.

She told her mom she would just be out studying,

Could she really pull it off?

He broke up with her 3 weeks later.

Offering to help Grades up after that mean fall,

Oodles and Oodles of letters bleeding out of him like A’s and B’s; he was so hurt that all 

Left was C’s to F’s. Later her mom had grounded her for sneaking out.

After all the trauma,

From getting pummeled by Relationships and Looks,

The only one that was there for her was Grades.

She felt guilty,

Leaving him hurt like that for all that time.

She graduated with Grades’ good friend Honor,

Without any help from Relationships or Looks.

Sure she always stayed in touch,

But never let Grades out of her sight again.

Analysis of Rhetorical Situations:

I tried my best to use rhetorical strategies to help my new audience understand my look on high school. Instead of just saying my transitions I went through from middle school to high school, I used an actual situation that could help the audience to understand more about my look on it. It explains a girl, who is in a new situation in her life and isn't always sure what to do in it. She's not sure what to be closer to: grades, her look, or her relationships. In the end she realizes that she can be close with all of them, but that she needs to always keep her grades in eyesight. This is to tell rising high schoolers what they might experience as new students in a new world.