Example Of Autobiography In Life

I was born in Atlanta, Georgia but raised in Covington, Kentucky. The quality education was limited in my hometown. In today society the academic curriculum is always changing, and not for the better. When I was in the second grade, the reading curriculum changed. The school system decided to try something different by dropping phonics and picking up memorization. Back then I did not notice how much of an obstacle my school was creating for me. The way they want us to read was through literal memorization. They wanted us to recall all the words in the world by just hearing them and then remembering. My teachers would pull one or two students aside to work with. One student would read out loud and the other would follow along with his or her finger. Then the other one would do the same. The teacher would tell us to skip over the words that we didn’t know and we would go over them after the timer or the section ran out. I never did well in those timed reads. However I was passed along the system with flying colors. I was content with what I learned in my elementary years. But then 7th grade came around and I decided to move in with my Aunt Karla in South Florida.

I began to read the instructions to her. I remember how she stopped what she was doing to just listen to me read to her out loud. She looked deeply concerned with my reading level. I was struggling to break down four letter words. My aunt told me to sound out the words. Yet, I did not know the phonetics so I just looked at her and explained that I didn’t know. She looked at me with doubt as if I were lying and then she turned the instructions over and begin to write the alphabet. She pointed asking me what the sound were for each letter. I remember being able to recall the vowel sounds but that was pretty much the extent of