What would you do?

Strife

Chapter 12

I walk into school, I was in a great mood because I had had a great weekend. I spent it with my Grandad, there were no fights, my brother didn't get drunk once, and neither did my mom. I walk into social studies and see Evan sitting in the back of the room with 3 girls trying to flirt with him. He sees me and gives a half smile, I look at all the girls and give him a smirk. He rolls his eyes and frowns, I laugh and go in the back of the room and put my books down in front of him. The bell rings and all the girls sadly go back to the seats. I turn around and say "Did you enjoy all those girls?" moving my eyebrows up and down. He laughs and says "Shut up!" "Nah you know you loved it." The teacher walked in and everyone got quiet. We had a test today but I was exempt from it since I had missed so much school. I go into the hallway and start to do all my make up work. The class time seemed to go so slowly and the test toke up all period. I feel like I had been sitting outside of the classroom for 3 hours. Finally the bell rang and I hopped off of the hallway floor and walked into the room I grabbed the books that I had left in there and walked out of the room. I might now have mentioned this but I go to a private school, it is an episcopal school but they do not have dress codes and stuck up rich kids if that is what you think a private school is like. Well, there are some snotty rich kids who own 3 Cadillacs and walk around in there snobby clothes acting like the own the whole damn place. But most of us are just normal kids, well anyway since we go to an episcopal school they just added a new class; Ethics. I am almost excited for it, I have it next. I walk into Mr. Brandons classroom and put my books down. I see Brad walk in and I wave him over. He comes and sits by me saying "I hope this class isn't as boring as it sound." I laugh and nod my head. "Even if it is, it can't be that bad I mean come on at least we have a good teacher!" I say all cheery smiling and nudging his shoulders. He smiles and says "That is true babe." Right as he says that I see Evan walk in. He looks up as he walks in, he almost gave me a smile until he saw Brad. He put his books down directly across from me all the way on the other side of the classroom. He turns to his left and starts talking to Ben, one of his friends. I feel brad put his arm around me as I lean back into him propping my legs on the table. We are 5 minutes into class and Mr. Brandon hasn't shown up yet. We are all talking and being pretty loud because the teacher in the room next to us came in and waited with us until her class started to be loud and she went back in there. Then we started to be loud again, sometimes I feel bad for teachers. Students can be so disrespectful to them. Finally after 10 minutes Mr. Brandon walks in the classroom, everyone sort of quieted down. He put his keys, briefcase and coffee down on the table. He had black stuff all over his face, I think he had some trouble with his car. He walks to the front of the classroom and stands there and looks at us. We all stop talking and look back at him. He starts to walk around the room looking at everyone of us. When he got to my table he knocked my feet off of the table and took Brad's arm off from around me. I heard some people snicker and I laugh as Brad put his arm back around me. He walks back to the front room and opens his mouth. He has not said a word this whole time. "Strife." He says and looks at us. "Definition by the dictionary is vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism or a struggle. We have all been through a struggle in our life. Whether it is our car breaking down, family member dying, or even failing a test. We all have different ways with coping with struggle." He paused for moment walking to one side of the classroom then said "Ethics is one's system of moral." "So my challenge for you today is to write a paper, about you standard of morales. Of how you cope with the world when things go wrong with you and other people. For example if someone is being mean to you to you choose to stoop to their same level of low. Or will you choose to give them empathy and compassion for what they are doing, because they may also have problems going on that you do not know about. I have a feeling you all will be surprised with your answers." He looks around the room,we all stare back stunned at him, we were not excepting that on the first day. He gives a little smirk and says "The requirement for the paper is on my website. If you have additional questions come to my desk to ask." He walking to his desk sitting down. I looked at brad and whispered "Well, I wasn't expecting that." I pull out my computer and go on the website to look at the directions. I go to his page and open the link, then open the document which has the directions on it. 

What are you morales?

Your first assignment for this class is to write a paper (one page long) about your morales. These are some questions to use as a guide line for the paper.

1. What is your definition for the word morales in your own words.

2. What are morales you live by everyday?

3. How do you overcome struggle in your life?

4. What has been the biggest struggle for you in your life so far?