My Writing Experience

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My Writing Experience My writing experiences have been influenced by my parents and the teachers I had in middle school. Mr. Smith was my 7th grade teacher in the year of 1985. I was a nervous child from a troubled home. Believing I was the only kid in the world with a terrible home life of parents fighting and unpredictable outcomes were routine, I had a hard time getting into the groove of each learning day with Mr. smith. We came from a small town in, Elyria, Ohio and I was the youngest of four children. Mr. Smith didn’t seem to care about what was going on in my home life and just wanted results. I remember turning in papers and they would come back marked up in read ink telling me all the mistakes I made, most of those mistakes where punctuations and spelling. I have never been a great speller and I remember in one of his assignments he had us do was to write an essay and hand out copies to out classmates for them to read. Before handing out my essay, I had Mr. Smith look my paper over to get his thoughts on how it read. The first thing he said to me was “check your spelling there are a lot of mistakes and you don’t want your peers to think you’re stupid do you?” I didn’t know what to think of this, I thought I had spelled a lot of the words correctly and when I asked him which ones were misspelled, he told me it was my responsibility to figure it out. I didn’t rewrite the paper before handing in out to my classmates and it went horrible wrong. My classmates started to speak out loud about all the spelling mistakes I made and that my essay didn’t make sense. I felt ashamed and embarrassed by what they were saying to me, that was the beginning of my fear of writing. My parents never really encourage any of us to read, we always had the TV on. I remember coming home from school, finishing my homework and then rushing to turn the TV to watch cartoons. I saw

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