Evolution of my reading and writing
I started really reading at five years old. At first I wasn’t really too much of a reader. I only read when one of my teachers asked me to. I am going to start off by telling you about all of the teachers that really started to help me read. And also how they helped me learn to read for myself. I will try my best to give you the best and worst moments of my reading and writing career. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher Miss Kint at the time said I was having trouble reading. I was normally a lot slower than the other kids. So when I went after school for her to help me read we quickly found out that I couldn’t pronounce words right. And some of that was because I started to develop a big overbite very early. And it stopped me from pronouncing words right. So after her putting me in speech lessons for three years I eventually was able to pronounce words fairly decent. I was always insecure and scared to read because I was embarrassed. Another person who helped me become an even better reader was my third grade teacher. She was one of the sweetest teachers I had ever had. She would
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I started watching harry potter when I was about eight. Of course, there were only about three movies out. But I was so fascinated by the series because I absolutely loved magic and the action packed fight scenes. It wasn’t until I was in fifth grade until I started to read the series. My entire family loves the harry potter series. But I am the only one who likes to actually read the books. But they helped me through the time when my uncle passed away. I turned to those books to cheer me up. Because even if I saw the movies the books were so good I couldn’t help but love them. And of course the movies kept coming out and so did the books. So far I have read the Sorcerer's stone all the way to the order of the phoenix. Haven’t read any of the super new
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
Instead of mom reading children’s books to me, I read them to her. And if I stumbled upon something I didn’t know or understand, mom helped me out! Soon enough I started reading to her without stuttering of not knowing how to say a word. I started being able to sound out words easier and my fluency became much better than before. First grade came around and I started reading bigger books such as Junie B. Jones and also the Magic Treehouse books. Books became easier to read as I aged and the books I read were getting bigger and bigger. In 5th and 6th grade I read The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpents Shadow, a trilogy called The Kane Chronicles written by Rick Riordan. I thought these three books were the greatest three books ever written! I even thought they were better than the hunger games! Especially with the series being based around Egyptian gods and theology, and also managed to tie in kids around my age that I could relate to. Those books made me love reading more than I ever have and I would read them again if I had the time to. Once 8th grade came out along I decided to read a “big boy” book: DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I thought I was so cool because I was reading a book that my parents have read. It has been the best book I have yet to read so far because it sparked my interest from the first sentence, to the last, there was intense suspense throughout the whole book and I could nonstop
School was an overwhelming place for me as a child. The teacher told my mother many times that I was great at socializing, although, I took too much time cleaning my desk and thus never finish the assignments. The teacher would send me home with simple books to practice reading to my mom. I would bring them home to read to my mom, but my mom never wanted to listen to me read and so I never practiced reading. She later told me that she felt they were “stupid.” To this day, I wonder if she knew the effect she had on my reading development.
I would only read books that were required for class, and even then I usually would not finish them. Reading was never something that I liked. When I got into high school, I started reading books for fun a little more than before. I was always a Harry Potter fan but since I did not like to read I only watched the movies. I remember reading those books and actually liking them. My junior year was also a time in my reading history that I remember well. As a class we were reading the Great Gatsby in time to see the movie for the midnight premier. Each day we were instructed to read up to a certain page, no further. I did not like the book at first, just like any other book I was forced to read for school. But, one night I was reading and the book got so interesting for me I could not put it down. That was the first book in along time that I enjoyed reading that was assigned to me. After my junior year, I went right back to my old ways of not reading books. My senior year I took AP English, so this required a lot of books. Thinking back to that year of school I remember finishing maybe one or two of those books. Although, I didn’t read all of those books, I still got a good grade in the class. One thing I did learn from that class about not reading all the books was reading the summaries is not good enough because, they leave out all the
Writing a decent essay can be nerve racking, time consuming, and can be accompanied by many trial and errors such as an art project. First you have to generate an idea, which can be the biggest challenge of them all. Then you have to decide on what details to incorporate and the placement for it. You begin to throw colors and shapes together in hopes that it will transform into a pleasing design. This all takes time, being challenged to create artwork, whether it be an essay or a painting, in sixty minutes becomes even more nerve racking and mind boggling. After last week’s timed writing practice, I was able to experience the dreadful event of producing a piece of artwork, which in my case was to deliver an essay,
I went into my educational experience with a wealth of background knowledge about a wide range of topics related to academics, relationships, athletics, and religion. I grew up in a small South Carolina town on a block where there were 48 children who played between the backyards and the park across the street. During the summer, we did not come inside until the street lights came on, and we played kickball, basketball, and baseball regularly. We also spent hours exploring a creek a few blocks away, catching tadpoles or frogs and, if we were really lucky, even snakes. Many of the mothers did not work outside the home and included us as they cooked meals or baked. I was in the first class in our school system to go through completely integrated schools from kindergarten through graduation and witnessed the joy and difficulties associated with changing attitudes concerning “separate but equal.” Most of the families on our block were Lebanese Catholic, and even though we were not, we learned about religion from them as we walked with to and from the church almost weekly for their religious education classes. Both sets of grandparents lived on the block next to us. We often ate dinners there where we were taught formal table manners, table settings, and basic etiquette. My mother worked part time at an historic
Writing an essay often seems to be an overwhelming task for many individuals. For students like myself, who came from another country, writing can be more difficult and challenging. It can be very frustrating to fully comprehend an idea, and being unable to express it proficiently in English can be excruciating. For these reasons, assistance is often needed to become an effective writer. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the process on how I organized and accomplished my most recent essay, and to identify the struggles I encountered when writing the paper. In addition, plans on how to improve my next paper, based on the teacher’s feedback from my previous essay, and topics including methods on how instructors can help develop my essay
Have you ever done something and felt so confident about it and thought that you would do well but it turns out that, but it ends up that the result you would get is not what you got? I did I actually had to go through the whole process of getting better, I learned to grow gradually as a writer. When I first started writing wrote I earned As and Bs. Then I started the started the summer bridge program here at Washington Adventist University and found out that writing in High School is a lot different from college. It is even harder to write an essay because you have to be sure to add in enough details based on the topic and right when you think you are done you must check on grammarly to revise your essay and make sure you check your work. Or even the writing center but because it was a summer program so the writing center was not open at the moment. When I received my papers I learned how not
Writing is a process I’ve grown to despise. Ever since grade school, I’ve had problems trying to express my ideas on paper. My writing process involves thinking about what’s being asked and trying to reflect my thoughts the best way I can on paper, but my thoughts don’t always come out as clear as I want them to be sometimes leaving a question not fully answered. My writing process isn’t a consistent set in stone process, but since being in ENC 1101 I always follow some of the same parameters such as revising my drafts, grammar usage and considering context and audience.
this area but I’m going to improve on it. The process of using multiple drafts has
As a child, watching films taught me many lessons about the world I know today. One prominent storyline that I grew up with was the Harry Potter series. I loved to read when I was younger and I would devour myself into the books and would watch the films after I had finished reading the actual book. Harry Potter brought me into this fantasyland with wizard and witches but also had extreme similarities to the world we have today.
At the start of this class, I made a goal to develop my writing skills to better prepare me for other courses for my degree. I knew English 106 would be different compared to any other English or college courses that I have taken. I knew English 106 environment will let me grow in diverse writing dimensions. My long serving years of experience in the military has exposed me to many cultures around the globe. In just seven weeks of the course, I have seen some improvement in my writing. This course has afforded me with several techniques that have made writing not only a little bit easier but also more in-depth resulting in a higher level of academic writing versus my normal military style writing. Now I understand the writing process and
I remember the day I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in theaters for the first time, I was only 5 years old and it was my first Harry Potter movie. I left the theater trying to do magic just like I saw the wizards do. Since then, I’ve grown up watching and reading Harry Potter. It was the first fictional world that I truly adored and still hold very dear today. Whenever I’m feeling down, I can put on one of the movies and feel like I’m in the wizarding world for a few hours. Harry Potter has changed my life and the way I view the world. Much of my creativity is drawn from the franchise and I have learned numerous life lessons along the way of the series. The series undoubtedly shaped my childhood and gave me a great deal of joy and a different perspective on the world.
Even though in the past I have had many reading and writing experiences. Academically, it was hard for me to grasp on to. One of the hardest things about reading for me was comprehending what was happening. This has always been a major struggle of mine, from grade school through high school. But, the one person who would help me through everything was my grandmother. For the books I had to read over the summer or homework, she would sit there with me just as we did when I was
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,