My parents realized they would soon have to spell things out, as many parents do. As soon as I learned to spell, which wasn’t long after I learned to read, my parents had no hope. I had entered their secret world of language, and I wasn’t leaving anytime soon. This love affair with language and books continued well into elementary and middle school where I surpassed my Accelerated Reading points every six weeks. My parents and I even had a system: when we had finished dinner, we would go into my room and snuggle up with a book that either they or I had picked.
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.
She get them to read a novel The Diary of Anne Frank and write about their own life experiences in daily journal. She encourages them to write and they slowly they start to change. However, in the middle of the story, Erin Gruwell's effort lead to conflict with the backward thinking of her department head and with her husband (Patrick Dempsey), who just being disappointed of her because she takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spends a lot more time at school. Freedom Writers is rated as PG13 since it contains some violent action and inappropriate use of language. This movie is suitable for teenagers, teachers and parents in which it inspired us on how to unite with others who came
I believe that children are very easily influenced, and as a child I was exposed to literature almost every night. I began to read Goosebumps books when I was only five years old. I think that habit has affected my personality because literature is about connecting with the characters on a more-than-personal level, and I feel like I can do that now to my friends better than most people. I have a great sense of empathy which keeps me from doing anything to anyone that I would not like done to myself. An English teacher named Tim Gillespie, who has studied the value of literature and written many articles about it concludes: “By its truthful portrayal of life's complex moral choices,
My interest in writing led to my desire to read. Mrs. Byrd, my kindergarten teacher, first taught me how to read books. During class one day, she asked me if I wanted to learn how to read. She always saw me trying to read different things so she started helping me with reading books. So beings that I was curious about everything I did not turn her down.
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.
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.
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.
Dorothy and her mother had a great relationship, they where always making fun of aunt Lucy and how she was the ideal mother and wife. One day, when Dorothy is a grown woman, her mother dies. Meanwhile, aunt Lucy had lost her husband and has turned 75, so she is an old lonely woman. Of gratitude for all the summer holidays Dorothy had spend at aunt Lucy’s, she invites her to stay at her place for a couple of days, so she doesn’t have to be alone while she is grieving over her sisters death. At first Dorothy can’t even recognize aunt Lucy, she has always pictured her as this kind chatty woman, but now she is cold and quiet.
Meg is remembering when they had more money. Jo is thinking of her Aunt March and the way she treats Jo. Beth is so shy she doesn’t go to school. She loves music and wants a piano. Amy is obsessed with what her nose looks like.