I used to read more books that talked about the reality I lived in or science fiction. The way they were written it was amazingly interesting for me, like I would spent days and late nights just to get to the end. The opportunity to read showed me that there were so many ways that I could learn both fun and educational faces of the reading field. When I was in the fifth grade I started to write poems inspired from the readings I did. The school principal and later on my English proffesor followed up with me in my career as a good reader.
When I eventually transferred to public schools, the issues that everyone overlooked because they were not an obvious problem for me really came back to haunt me when I was assigned any sort of extensive writing assignment. I continued to take reading classes in public school. Fortunately, I managed to get through my English classes and graduate high school never expecting to have to write any sort of paper again. While I thought that to be true for the first two years out of high school, that proved to be a poor mindset to have. June
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.
Tyler explains that she used to finish books really fast, but now with Internet blogs she starts a book and then loses concentration and reads small blogs (Goldstein B4). We care about so many long-running stories on Twitter, Facebook, and other Internet blogging cites that we cannot focus long enough to read a book. Students cannot even focus long enough to do their homework without searching, blogging, or messaging. Concentrating on doing an assignment is one of the hardest things for students. There are so many distractions, for instance, YouTube.
We are taught to read in school, by our parents, or sometimes even teach ourselves. My parents were the main people who got me hooked on reading. I learned to read at around the ages of three and four. To me, books were the most exciting things in the entire world. Reading became an activity that I loved right away.
I lick that show on TV,” and she would just reply in a laughing and comforting voice “Honey, don’t you mean you like that show? You can’t lick the show...” In the first grade we started using Accelerated Reader. Accelerated Reader is a program where you get points for reading. I liked reading with Accelerated Reader because it was easy. You would read a book, and take a test over the book.
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.
I had never taken a real composition class before so when I started my first English class for college it most definitely was not easy, and learning to be an academic writer is something one cannot master right away. There are rules to follow and routines to guide me when writing, just like when being a Care Giver. The first few weeks of being a Care Giver vs. being an Academic Writer I would have to say were about the same, it was hard and very stressful. The first thing we learned in academic writing was the definition of it, which is pretty much breaking down ideas to better understand something by the use of deductive reasoning, a formal voice and the use of third person. To better
Why college education is important to me. A college education is a step one chooses to take in their lifetime. Some take this step after high school, while others may wait longer. I didn’t see school as fit for me while in high school. The material was not interesting, teachers didn’t seem to care about students as they once did, and I found myself looking for answers that just weren’t there anymore.
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.