Prompt:
Write a persuasive speech (250–350 words) arguing that mistakes are essential to learning and growth in school and life. Your speech must include: A clear thesis statement in the opening A central metaphor or simile carried throughout the speech (e.g., “Mistakes are stepping stones…”) At least two additional figurative devices (e.g., anaphora, tricolon, personification, or contrast) A structured argument with at least two supporting points A conclusion that revisits your metaphor, reinforcing your message Focus on powerful figurative language and structured persuasive reasoning
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Mistakes are essential to learning and growth in school and life.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Mistakes. They hit hard. You might think that mistakes are your parents’ worst nightmare. But no, mistakes are a sign that you are progressing through life, not the newborn baby that everyone was before. Mistakes help us grow and learn from them, it promotes creativity, and it can help foster resilience.
Firstly, mistakes can help us develop, and we will learn from them. When we accidentally do something wrong the first time, we will be able to know what strategy we can use to solve it, even if it’s not the easiest. With a little bit more practice, then we will be a pro at the question type, and conquer every question with ease.
In addition, it promotes creativity. When you cannot find a way to solve a difficult maths question, you will have to find a solution around that, like drawing it out, or writing an algorithm. During your revisiting, your mind will expand, and if your teacher explains it to you, the method will sink into your mind, and you will be able to use that method, or slightly modify the method to make it work for another type of question. You will be able to quickly work out in a test if the question type requires difficult methods or not.
Last but not least, it can help foster resilience. When you fail to do a task, you will be angry, and disappointed, but then you will have the urge to bounce back, and try again. Resilience will help build up sportsmanship, and in later life, your mindset will have the opportunity to become stronger. I know that sometimes, mistakes are really annoying. But they actually help you foster resilience, that is for most people, so that you can prepare for the real world when you grow up, which may have some challenges. Mistakes also help you adapt to not being perfect all the time, which no one is.
In conclusion, mistakes are vital to help everyone live, because they help us learn, promotes creativity, and fosters resilience. Without mistakes, our world would collapse, and would be extremely uncivilized.
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1- 10-D5 – Audrey Gu
Mistakes are Key for Learning
Our mistakes will improve our learning, because we can learn from them and get better. Your child will not know everything straight away, they have to learn. And part of learning is mistakes. People are human beings, and the only way human being can survive, is by learning from themselves. Everyone makes mistakes, and we should not ignore it, we should embrace it.
If your child is struggling to learn, you should help them by pointing out their mistakes. Once you do that, you must help them to not make it again, by showing what step they got wrong. In this way of learning, your child improves their learning, from you. Instead of disregarding the effort the children put in, and demotivate them. You must always put them in a positive attitude when studying.
Mistakes are steping stones for our growth. If we make a mistake, we must learn from it by, spotting where we went wrong and try not to make the same mistake again. Once you know how to fix your mistakes you will succeed in the journey of life. This will help you not to make the same mistake again. Everyone will always make mistakes throught their lives, the only way to fix them, is to learn from them.
Some may argue that mistakes will get you low grades in tests. Well if we study all the subjects at home and fix all the mistakes, you will have a high chance to get good scores. So if you want to get good marks in tests, you should revise the subject and clarify it by fixing your mistakes.
Mistakes are the key for learning, since learning means to come back when you got a problem wrong, and figure out what you got wrong. As Albert Einstien said “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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2- 10-D5 – varunspilla
Day 5 Homework Writing:
Mistakes, mistakes are the core of our education. It lets us expand our knowledge and give us a diverse mind.
If you haven’t made a mistake in your life, means that you are just sticking to the basics, which means that you will always stay at the bottom. If you make a simple easy mistake, do you cry or weep about it? No, you learn from that to be the best you’ve ever been! When you ignore and leave mistakes behind you aren’t using your full potential.
If your in a test and you make multiple mistakes, we learn from that so that we can do better and improve in your next test! Mistakes can help us develop new skills and expand our brain. We can’t always be winning or being the best every time it takes time to improve and evolve from our mistakes. While we learn, teachers nor parents should tell their child about all their achievements all the time. Instead they should tell their child what they need to improve on and what they should do better next time.
As Tim Fargo said “Mistakes are stairs we climb to reach success.” – Tim Fargo. Mistakes are stairs that we need climb, to become better and to strengthen our mind. Some children may say, that mistakes make us get low marks on tests, but if we work hard and use those mistakes we can achieve a better score in our next assessment!
If you do something wrong in a test you would get super mad and disappointed, but after a few minutes, your anger starts to fade away. Then you would have the urge to relook at your test and see what you have done wrong. Once you’ve checked it and solved the problem, then you would have a method on how to solve this. When you take another assessment, then you can use your algorithm to use in the test, so that you can solve it with no problems.
Ultimately, mistakes should be made, because they help us expand our knowledge and give us an idea on how to solve the problem again next time. Mistakes are vital to us, so we can improve and let us understand how to solve the same problem in the future!
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One step closer to success!
Have you ever made a mistake and felt sad, embarrassed or just want to give up? Well, if that’s you, you probably haven’t heard this enough: Mistakes are good. They are a powerful tool that leads to the road of success, and it also helps you to be a better person.
So, why are mistakes good?
Firstly, imagine trying to swim for the first time. You probably sunk, did the step wrong or almost drowned. But practice makes perfect. After some time, you will be swimming gracefully, as if it’s noting. You will also learn to say, “I can’t do it yet, but I will be able to later.” Then you can see how much effort you have put in to make it successful. People who are always perfect or never make mistakes is a hundred times worse than a person who does make mistakes.
Secondly, everyone knows what it feels like to make mistakes. It’s pretty sad. But even the smartest people on earth makes mistakes. Even some of the smartest inventors make mistakes. For an example, Thomas Edison tried over 1000 times to invent the lightbulb. If he gave up after the first mistake, we’d still be wandering in the dark at night.
Additionally, if we make mistakes, we become better people. That’s because we learn from our mistakes and take risks. People who never make mistakes don’t learn and don’t take risks. When we make mistakes, it also teaches us to be kind and empathetic to yourself and others, being less like a bully.
We understand some people feel disappointed when they make a mistake, but later in life, you will praise yourself and others. Even though people might call you terrible now, consider yourself the best and no matter what, be kind to yourself and others. Then that’s when others will praise you too.
You don’t have to be disappointed, instead feel proud. So next time you make a mistake, it’s not the end of the world if you make one. So, remember, if you do make a mistake, it’s not the end of the road to success, just practice over and over again and try hard.
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2- 10-D5 – Abrita
Title: Do not be scared of mistakes – They are our best teachers!
Today, I want to discuss something extremely vital for school and life: mistakes! We usually think of them as bad, such as making mistakes or failing. However, I actually think mistakes are like the special dirt that helps us learn and grow exceptionally well.
Imagine our lives, and even our school time, as a big, cool garden. We plant seeds, like new ideas or trying hard at something new. We try to take care of them. Sometimes, even if we try our best, a plant doesn’t grow right. Maybe we gave it too much water, or not enough, or put it in the wrong sunny spot. Is that bad for the garden? No! Every leaf that looks gross, every tiny plant that doesn’t get big, teaches us something. It shows us what didn’t work, so we can try something different that will work. Mistakes are like clues that tell us what to do better next time.
Think about a scientist experimenting. They try lots of ideas, and many of them don’t turn out as they think, those are like “mistakes” when they’re trying to find something out. But often, it’s when things go wrong that they discover awesome new stuff! It’s like a soccer player who misses the goal a bunch of times. Every time they miss, they get a little better at kicking, until they’re super good.
We need to make our classrooms, our homes, and even our brains places where we say “yes!” to mistakes because they are chances to really understand things. When we trip, we learn how to stay balanced. When we fall, we learn how to get back up. Let’s not be scared to try something even if we’re not perfect at it, because trying and messing up a little is often the best way to learn new things.
So, let’s take care of our gardens bravely, and don’t worry about making little mistakes. Because just like the best dirt for plants has all sorts of stuff in it, even unexpected things, our best learning comes from the very ground of our awesome mistakes!
Word Count of speech – 347
Have you ever wondered that the the smartest people in the world have made many mistakes.Terence Tao once said “Making mistakes is part of doing mathematics.”Most people just sit in the corner of the room and be sad of their mistakes but they do not reflect open them and try not to do them ever again.Some people just try to avoid it and just not do anything that could lead them to do a mistake.It is estimated that Albert Einstein has made an average of 100 mistakes in life and has still succeeded greatly in his career, this is because he always reflected on his mistakes and tried to make sure he dose not do it again.
Firstly mistakes help you with school.For example lets say you fail a math exam, because you can review that exam and try do questions again to make sure you can do it again if you have to.This is a way most students learn how to grow educationally.
Secondly mistakes help children develop there creativity.Lets say you get really low marks on your writing quiz, and then you realise that you can try make it better by underlining a words to make sure you do not go of topic.This boosts kid’s creativity to find a new way to find an answer.
In conclusion mistakes help build resistance over anger. Maybe you did not want to tie your shoe laces before the race and when the race started you tripped over and came last.What if you were training for that race all year but ended coming last.That will make you extremely angry but if you learn to control you anger from these mistakes nothing can make you angry again.
This is why making mistakes can help children have a good life and career so making mistakes is a good way to grow educationally, boost creativity and control anger.
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