Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for newin high school.
, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛) for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would befor her to be selected. Two hours later, theread a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heartas the list ended without her name. Feeling, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was. She moved on to English and history, and wasto find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not tomath for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school. Mrs. Biden wasn’t asas Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enoughfor the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiledand left. “Why is high school so?” she sighed.
Later inclass, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try toat her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to. High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big ponda big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become thefish you can be.”
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