I really like Sonya Sones work, I read her first novel Stop Pretending when I was in 7th grade, and loved her work. Everything she writes about are things I’ve gone through, tried, or thought
The first paper I came across was the results of a pre-reading composite test from kindergarten. The paper said I had a low average compared to other kids in my classroom. My progress report had the same news. My teacher said I needed to concentrate on language concepts. She also said I was an easily distracted child.
My experiences with reading and writing My earliest recollections of both my reading and writing experiences are not pleasant and to date these experiences have not changed. Prior to my kindergarden days my mother would teach me at home the letters of the alphabet in the hope that my entry into school life would me smoother. I am not too sure that she succeeded. I recall my first day in the kindergarden class, the teacher started off with figures; I thought to myself smooth sailing. I thought that all day this is what I would doing, little did I know that reading would be next.
Holding it is, like, ‘what?’ ” Frances credits her teacher not only for her notes in the margin in all six of those early drafts, but also for the encouragement to keep going. “I would have never imagined when I first started Western Civilization that that would have even been a possibility in all possible worlds, that I could write a paper that would one day be published,” Frances said. “She was just really encouraging with it and really supportive. I think having that support made me want to follow through even more. It made me feel like I could do it.” As she begins to think about career plans, Frances thinks she might want to play a similar role in the lives of others.
An example of a lie I personally told was one in 7th grade when my English teacher had assigned me a project that required me to read a book and make a poster with information on the book. I turned the poster into my teacher, but the poster I made was complete bullshit. I made up a book and did the poster on that, but the teacher had looked up the book and realized I lied about my project. If Stephanie Ericsson was to associate my lie with a name she stated in the essay it would most likely be an omission. Ericsson defines omission as “Telling most of the truth minus one or two key facts whose absence changes the story completely” (Ericsson 2), since I told my teacher I finished the project, but not that I didn’t do it correctly nor that I didn’t read a book.
We see this when she writes in her novel, the book thief, "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." This shows the reader that Liesel has realized the manipulative power of words and because of that hopes that through reading and writing compassionately she has ‘made them right’. We are shown the ability of words to comfort when Liesel reads to everyone while they wait for the air raids to finish. Death Narrates, “For at least 20 minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the crime scene.”- page 389 This shows that words can transport people into another world, giving them some temporary relief from their struggles and fears.
I found Educating Esme to be refreshing, honest, intelligent, quick witted, smart and logical. As I was reading the book there were times when my jaw literally dropped and I laughed out loud. Esme is the type of teacher who has so much back bone it might not be good for her; even though she is right most of the time. I was very comforted many times when reading this book for many reasons. Esme begins the book with the most prominent issue facing new teachers; discipline and classroom management.
Throughout the poem the child portrayed in the poem seems to be awkward and indifferent towards her mother. However, the child ends up fascinated with her mother even exclaiming the fact that her mother is actually hers and no one else’s. The mechanics of the poem are not very structured as Olds seems to almost always use a free verse style of writing. The poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is a poem of thirty lines that uses imagery to describe the scene of her parents as they depart into college together. The first nine lines beginning with an exploration of two adults signified by the terms "gates" and "colleges."
This little Jo became one of the most famous writers, J. K. Rowling. How did she hook the world? Rowling wrote in her biography that she was on a delayed train when the ideas fell into her head. But she didn’t have a pen that worked. She simply sat and thought.
One is learned from school and books, which is for writing and speaking, Standard English. The other one is for communication at home with mother, Family English. And Tan thinks her mother’s English is dynamic, straightforward, and both observation and imagination are rich enough. Also because of this kind language, it helps Tan to form the ways of expression and observation of things. And help her understand the world.