Jim Keenan English 101 It Puts The Lotion In The Basket As most kids gradually start to read more and more as they mature, I was one of the few who didn't learn to enjoy reading until senior year of highschool. The teachings of Tom Alessandri were the sole cause of my newfound appreciation for literature. All it takes is the inspiration of one individual to turn someone onto reading and writing. Tom Alessandri was the last highschool English teacher I had, taking his Science Fiction & Horror Literature class. While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up.
I’ve always been a person with a growth mindset, I can thank my dad for that, and this book just seemed to be a great fit for the type of reading that I do for fun outside of school ,so I felt it would be the best fit for me. As I began reading this book, I had already learned about the immense power of effort and where the right amount of concentrated and well preformed effort could take anyone. However, I had no idea of this “fixed mindset” which caused people to believe that effort was not as powerful, as I know it to be, but actually bad. I learned so much about the extent that the fixed mindset can take you. It can take someone who as all the talent in the world, such as one of my personal heroes Billy Beane, and force them to fail at their true dream and passion.
My mother read to me every night until I fell asleep. I can remember having dreams about the fairytales she read to me. My father let me pick a book out of the Scholastic paper I use to get every month at school. It didn’t matter how much the book cost he never said no. Welty said, “Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been something of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother though we children should grow up with.”(Welty, 391) I remember my father giving me his old Hardy Boys books when I was about eight years old.
At primary school I was able to read for myself some of the books that were meant for grade ones up to grade four leaners books and also had little assistant from my teachers and mother with all the words I did not know at the time. From then I had favorite books that I could read fluently and understand. These included Tom and Jerry, Cat in the hat, the three little pigs and much, much more that I used to read on a daily basis for my family and friends. The love of reading made me a very imaginative kid and a curious one at that, every week I wanted a different career when I grow up, which was very interesting and confusing also for my mother. Throughout primary School and high school my love of reading and writing grew and so, did the number of books and also my ability to pronounce and understand English.
One of the reasons I think its not beneficial is because we have 9 months of school where we learn and read or anything else and only 2 months of summer vacations where we have fun and do whatever we want. The summer reading project is not only a waste of time for students, but a waste of time for teachers as well because they will have lots of grading and any student is able to receive information about the book from friends; even the internet contains information about the book. Not once having to open the
How to win friends and influence people book vs. The fire starter session book I have to say that I have enjoyed my weekend learning as much as I have never imagined from those two books: How to win friends and influence people, and the fire starter session. The benefit is outrageous and they open my mind-eye to plenty of hidden formulas to achieve rather more connections and business starting insights. Herein, I will write about my mere reading experience of those two books, and I will testify in my opinion about their similarities in conceptual lessons they tend to deliver the reader and the differences they might have. How to make friends and influence people book, really, expands your social skills to the maximum.
Reading and writing isn’t a daunting task for me. It transports me back to my childhood where my parents and I connected over our love of language and books. From the moment I first learned to read, I couldn’t stop. I read everything: street signs, cereal boxes, even things I probably wasn’t supposed to read. My parents realized they would soon have to spell things out, as many parents do.
|Book Report: I am Beto | |Book report for September 2012 | |Written by: Tran Huu Phuong Anh and Tran Thu Cuc. Hope you guys enjoy this! | | | BOOK REPORT I Am Beto -Nguyen Nhat Anh- [pic] Written by: • Tran Huu Phuong Anh • Tran Thu Cuc Content • Before you read • Author • Story: I am Beto • Summary • Comment • Compare and contrast • Conclusion ♥ Before you read: Many people rush everyday with the hope to find the things people call “true happiness”, and although the quote “Happiness is right here in our daily life” is talked over and over again, there are few people concern about that. Yes, “Happiness is right here in our daily life”, no need to find somewhere far away. That simple massage has been repeated in “I am Beto” by a profound, effective, soft way that makes you never can forget.
This was a common practice among the Nigerian community at the time, allowing young parents to work and attend school without having to provide and pay for childcare. Lydia discovered later in her childhood that she has a younger sister who was also placed in a foster care home. At the age of five, Lydia's parents abruptly removed her from her loving foster home to live with them in a small, one-room apartment where she slept on the couch. The abuse began immediately. Lydia was left alone in the apartment often and when her parents were home very little was said to her that did not involve a command or a verbal lashing.
At age twenty one Basnet opened the Early Childhood Development Center, also known as ECDC (Waiting for Mamu). Most of the children in ECDC are emotionally, physically, or mentally scared, some even had to witness their own father murdering their mothers (Rai). A couple of children had never even left the prison. EDCD offers the kids to get a full education. For the older kids, they get to live a normal life by going to school and interacting with kids their own age (Toner).