I believe that I came out of that class with an A, all because of my teacher. I know that I should put all of my effort into my work regardless of the teacher or the teaching style, but I was just immature back then and did not realize how it would hurt me in the future. In the eight grade, I had an assignment to read a book called The Battle of Jericho, but I did not want to do it. I figured I would just skim through the book and tell the teacher I read it, until I received a piece of paper which explained that I must type an essay about the book. I had to read it now, so I told myself to just do it and get it done, but I had to go get the book first.
Literacy in My Life When I was young, my parents read to me a lot to help me read better for when I started school. Once I started school I was a pretty good reader but I was not very good with writing. The teachers would make us write all the time, and I thought it was useless. I am not a very good writer because I would choose to do the very least I could do to get by with writing prompts throughout my elementary and middle school years. In high school, I was worried about the writing test before and after I took the test.
This was the start of a new hobby that left behind another. I never again found that same level of desire to read. I still read here and thee in middle school when I had nothing else to do. Reading became a time filler not something I sought out to do. As I journeyed through high school I struggled to find motivation to read even the assigned novels and reading.
Kenny Pogue Pogue 1 Ms. Barro EN1223 2 Febuary 2015 Essay 1 Writing for Recess When I was in grade school there were several experiences that shaped my attitude and beliefs on writing. There was one, however, that stood out above the rest. The time my fifth grade teacher gave me a paper to write as a punishment. I was not very fond of my fifth grade teacher and had written some less than honorable remarks about her in my text book. As she walked by my desk, she noticed me writing in my textbook and asked to see what I had written.
Once the papers started to come in my life started getting harder in school I tried anything to get out of writing essays and short stories. After a while it became a giving to me, my teacher started to noticing my writing telling me I am getting better
I’ve learned in my past years of reading and writing is that there is no perfect way to do it. It took me a lot of practice to be able to overcome my worst fear of learning how to read. I never thought being a bad reader would have happened to me, but it did. I learned that if I set my mind to becoming a better reading it would happen, which it
OF MICE AND MEN. Throughout my years of high school, I read several good and bad books. One day we were told to read “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck and I thought the book overall was one of the best books I have read in a while. Like all great books, they usually turn into a movie. Director Gary Sinese was thrilled to read such a book and wanted to make a movie about Of Mice And Men, but Gary Sinese had a different prospective and wanted to create an idea of his own which made viewers had different thought and feelings between the movie and the book.
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.
In the essay, Aria, he was forced to study English and Richard Rodriguez resented the loss of intimacy in the family. However, he, later, discovered his love in books. Richard Rodriguez switched from hating English to fall in love with books. Education has changed his mind; therefore, changed him. He confesses: “What I am about to say to you has taken me more than twenty years to admit: A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student” (598).
This is similar towards Matt’s situation because he was accused for bombing the school and many kids would torture him. How does trying to commit suicide affect Matt’s identity? It affects Matt’s identity because he thinks committing suicide will solve all his problems and people would just leave him alone and forget him because he is dead. How dose committing suicides define Matt’s character? It defines him because he was always bullied at school ever since the incident happen