There were many people throughout my childhood that help me to read, and write. However, my teachers, mom, and dad were all responsible for teaching me “how” to read and write. For example, in pre-kindergarten, I learned my alphabet, colors, shapes, numbers, and to follow instructions. Once I learned the above items, I returned home with homework. My mom and dad would help me with my homework, and structure activities around my learning. My mom and dad would encourage me to read because they believed it was very important. In addition, my mom would often read to me before I go to bed reinforce my learning. The readings before I go to be very instrumental in my learning. The “The Fox and The Hound” was very significant to my literacy development
because the book taught about the importance of friendship. The book had a positive impact because there were two different animals that maintained their friendship. The two animals in the story were about a fox named Tod, and a hound dog named Copper. They both became friends after Tod’s mother died. Tod met Copper at a fence around a farm and quickly became friends. However, as the two animals grew older they were forced apart. The animals were forced apart because Copper was a hunting dog, and Tod was his prey in the eyes of his master. The two animals reunited in the wild and became outwardly hostile towards each other. In the end, Tod’s foot was stuck, and Copper chased after him leaving his master behind. Copper remembered their friendship, and let Tod go. The ending of the book impacted me the most because their friendship remained strong despite their circumstances. The moral of the story resonated with me morally because Copper could have portrayed his friend, and hunt him. For the above reasons was “why” I chose “The Fox and The Hound”. Currently, I do not enjoy reading. However, I do enjoy writing. In terms of reading, my negative attitude towards reading stemmed from boredom. In fact, I am a visual learner, and couldn’t visualize description of words on a page. In addition, books were very vague, and I had trouble visualizing characters’, sights, sounds, and movements. Often times, the book I read wouldn’t be very descriptive of the time, place, and space. On the other hand, I developed a positive attitude towards writing because I was able to express myself. I was able to express how I felt about a particular topic without a particular idea forced on to me. The most significant event that impacted my reading was falling asleep after reading after a couple of pages, and I find television more interesting. However, the most significant event that impacted me was being alone after school every day in elementary school. Now, there are some reading and writing challenges I would overcome, such as, correcting mistakes, and correcting redundant statements, understanding complex sentence structure. I believe reading and writing are important for children because a child needs a firm foundation to be able to communicate effectively to others. An adult can help a young reader to build a firm foundation. An adult can help by devoting time and energy to read to a child. The adult should read to a child because reading and writing improve a child socially and cognitively. The child can improve his or her reading and writing because they’re learning from a more knowable other. The more knowable other can correct, and praise a child. Also, the child can improve socially because the child is interacting with an adult. While an adult is reading to the child, communication is improved while interacting with a child.
I have very few recollections of my early years and the exact age I was able to read and write. Some of my earliest memories are vague on the topic of my literacy. However, I do remember small memories, such as, learning how to write my name in cursive, winning prizes for reading, and crying over every assigned high school essay. Over the last twelve years my literacy grew rapidly with the help of teachers, large school libraries, my family, and so on. There is always room for my literacy skills to grow, but my family’s help and positive attitude towards my education, the school systems I have been a part of, and the horrible required essays from high school helped obtain the level, skills, habits, and processes that I use as part of my literacy
The theme of literacy comes into play over and over again throughout the course of the novel. In Hosseini's work, literacy is both a uniting and dividing force. Amir’s love for books is a separation factor between him and his father. Baba would rather him play sports and be athletic, “Everyone in my class wanted me on their team, because by the time I was eleven, I could recite dozens of verses from Khayyám, Hãfez, or Rumi's famous Masnawi. One time, I took on the whole class and won. I told Baba about it later that night, but he just nodded, muttered, "Good"(19). In Baba’s eyes, Amir’s love for books equates to weakness, “That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books”(19). Amir also uses his books as a way of escapism. He uses his literacy to escape from Baba’s coldness and their complicated relationship.
Support from parents has proven to be of extreme importance in the literacy success of a child. This often begins with the simple ritual of “bedtime stories” in the home. Studies show that children who are read to as infants perform better in literacy later in life. From a young age, children begin to understand the workings of the written word if they are exposed to it frequently. Babies who are nowhere near having the mental capacity to read and comprehend a book are still able to “follow along” when their parents or caregivers read to them. These children understand that each segment of writing represents a word and they are even able to recognize when a text is upside-down because they are accustomed to the appearance of writing. This puts the child significantly ahead when the time comes to learn to read.
It was finally time to head to gym class in the afternoon where we were instructed to take part of a physical test. This test would determine how fit or unfit we are based on a system that was implemented by those with greater authority, on which concluded that it was on such a scale society should be based on. So it was that afternoon that I preformed the tasks that were instructed on to me and my peers. I was able to completed them to my utmost potential which can be consider to be something not so distinctive. It was on this day that I was mocked by one my peers of my lack of ability to preform the instructed physical tasks, that was a no brainer to such a fit individual like himself. It
In this essay I will be looking at some of the reasons why ‘the Hound
School was an overwhelming place for me as a child. The teacher told my mother many times that I was great at socializing, although, I took too much time cleaning my desk and thus never finish the assignments. The teacher would send me home with simple books to practice reading to my mom. I would bring them home to read to my mom, but my mom never wanted to listen to me read and so I never practiced reading. She later told me that she felt they were “stupid.” To this day, I wonder if she knew the effect she had on my reading development.
Throughout my childhood I was never very good at reading. It was something I always struggled with and I grew to not like reading because of this. As a child my mom and dad would read books to me before I went to bed and I always enjoyed looking at the pictures and listening. Then, as I got older my mom would have me begin to read with her out loud. I did not like this because I was not a good reader and I would get so frustrated. During this time I would struggle greatly with reading the pages fluently, I also would mix up some of the letters at times. I also struggled with comprehension, as I got older. My mom would make me read the Junie B. Jones books by myself and then I would have to tell her what happened. Most
Growing up in working class family, my mom worked all the time for the living of a big family with five kids, and my dad was in re-education camp because of his association with U.S. government before 1975. My grandma was my primary guardian. “Go to study, go to read your books, read anything you like to read if you want to have a better life,” my grandma kept bouncing that phrase in my childhood. It becomes the sole rule for me to have better future. I become curious and wonder what the inside of reading and write can make my life difference. In my old days, there was no computer, no laptop, no phone…etc, to play or to spend time with, other than books. I had no other choice than read, and read and tended to dig deep in science books, math books, and chemistry books. I tended to interest in how the problem was solved. I even used my saving money to buy my own math books to read more problems and how to solve the problem. I remembered that I ended up reading the same math book as my seventh grade teacher. She used to throw the challenge questions on every quiz to pick out the brighter student. There was few students know how to solve those challenge questions. I was the one who fortunately nailed it every single time. My passion and my logic for reading and writing came to me through that experience, and also through my grandma and my mom who plant the seed in me, who want their kids to have happy and better life than they were. In my own dictionary, literacy is not just the ability to read and write, it is a strong foundation to build up the knowledge to have better life, to become who I am today.
The setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is very important to the book’s story. In the beginning of the story, the setting is late 18th century London, where Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, John Watson live. Sherlock and John live in a small, yet upscale flat on Baker Street in London. Tobacco smoke often fills this apartment, and this is where he gets a lot of his thinking about theories and threads done for cases. The book itself states, “As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.” This shows that while Sherlock is left alone to think, he smokes huge amounts of tobacco. The text also later states, “‘Yes, I have thought a good deal throughout the course of the day.’” When Watson leaves Sherlock to think about the case and consider theories, SHerlock sits alone in the flat, smokes tobacco, and solely focuses on the case at hand.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells the tale of an enigma surrounding a curse. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson must race against time to solve the mystery before time runs out. From the beginning to the end of the adventure, the author develops the theme of to not be ruled by fear through having characters die and wanting to leave because of a myth clouding their judgment. Therefore, Sir Charles dies of a heart attack induced by trepidation.
According to Serena Davies, a reviewer for BBC One, '“The Hounds of Baskerville” took the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes stories, gave the original title just the smallest of tweaks, then had its wicked way with the rest of the tale,” (Telegraph.co.uk.). Davies is correct because the title might have only been changed by one letter, but the differences in the episode from the novel are mammoth. The episode “The Hounds of the Baskerville” in the series Sherlock produced by BBC is similar to the novel The Hound of the Baskerville because, in both the show and the novel, the monstrous hound is not a real monster, just a normal dog, but the drastic differences including, the setting of the story and the characters make the show more exciting
The Hound of the Baskervilles, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel which evidently demonstrates the sexual politics towards women found throughout Victorian literature. The women in this novel are portrayed as stereotypical characters of the time period. They hold jobs such as a typist and housekeeper, both very fitting for the time. Two women in this novel find themselves being manipulated by a men, one in particular, Mr. Stapleton, who uses these women as pawns in his political agenda. Mr. Stapleton demonstrates the amount of power men held over women during this time period.
Throughout my life, reading and writing were a positive thing because of the support from the people around. I was never really the confident or extroverted type of person back in the day. This then caused me to be anxious when I read or be doubtful of what I wrote. I can still remember breaking balls of sweats and tensing up whenever I had to read something aloud in elementary. It was a pretty big social problem for me but I can also recall many times where I was laughing and having fun while doing something with reading or writing with my mother. Although there have been many things that affected me so far in my literary journey, my mother has been the most supportive and impactful person to me by reading short stories, going to the library, and giving me writing prompts. One of the activities I liked to do before I fell asleep was to read.
When I was younger my parents never read to me; they would lay me down to go to sleep, give me a nice warm kiss on the forehead, and shut the lights off. I feel that this has truly hurt the way my reading skills were being developed. My parents had not attended college which hurt their ability of reading me advanced books. Since they weren’t able to read books that would be beneficial to advancing
Do you remember the teacher who had a significant impaction on your English literacy development? I do. I started to learn English as a second language when I was a child. At that time, I just learned some nursery rhymes and daily conversation. During that time, I really liked learning English because learning English was so much fun. Later, as I grew up, I found learning English is not fun anymore because I have to remember lots of words, their meanings and spellings, which is tedious. Besides that, I have to remember the grammar rules, which is so painful to me. However my feeling about English was changed as I moved to high school. I meet Mr. Wang there and he reignite my passion in writing.