Ethan's Nonfiction Writing Blog

How does procrastination play a role in your life? It’s 6am on Wednesday morning and the timer started to run. In exactly 9 hours I would be taking a history test. Now, this was not just an ordinary history test. This was a 6 flowchart history test. I got dressed as fast as I could, ate, brushed my teeth, got all my school stuff together and headed out the door. It was 7:30. Exactly 7.5 hours until test time. Let me explain why a sophomore modern history test is so hard. Our teacher created his own curriculum where he used flowcharts to explain all the events that took place throughout history. These flowcharts are composed of many text boxes that are connected by arrows. Each flowchart is also accompanied by a reading to explain how the flowchart works. Every single class our teacher would explain the flowchart and we would take notes. Some flowcharts are big and some are smaller, but no matter the size they are a pain in the butt to memorize. Now back to the story. I walked ...

Prompt: What is your role in your family? Everyone has their role in a family, and many of those roles seem very natural. Every person is good at somethings and every person is bad at other things. For example, I am a terrible cook. If I try to cook a meal, I will inevitably use the wrong amount of water, somehow break a plate, undercook the meat, and somehow by the end my mom is back in the kitchen trying to save my house from burning down. Instead, I stick with my job in the family and everyone else sticks to theirs.             I am our family’s designated GPS if go somewhere. If we are in Europe, the middle of the woods or even if we’re in IKEA (don’t ever underestimate how confusing IKEA is), I am always supposed to know where to go or know how to get back to where we started. My dad has a terrible sense of direction. His sense of direction is so bad that he somehow always wants to go the opposite way. If we have to turn l...