Personal Experience: The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin

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My earliest memory of reading interest started when I was in the 6th grade. I was in your typical classroom with rows of desks lined up, and the teachers desk in the front of the class. At that age I was more interested in video games and playing outside with friend than I was with reading. However, my view of books changed one day when our teacher brought in a book to share with all of us. It was a book titled The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. My teacher informed us that it's mystery novel, and that our goal was to figure out who the killer. Many of the students including myself saw this as a game and immediately caught our attention. We only had the one copy of the book so our teacher walked up and down between the rows reading the first few chapters. This is where the …show more content…

Reading felt more natural than writing. Writing is not something I would normally spend free time doing, and it's not something that I really enjoy. Coming up with ideas and putting everything together in a coherent form is no easy task. I've always felt that I wasn’t creative enough to come up with something interesting to write. The only times I would write is when I had a writing assignment due for school. There was one particular writing assignment I remember most. It was when I was in the 7th grade, and each student have to make up their own short story. We each had to come up a 1-2 pages of material, and then read it out loud in front of the class. It was a very nerve racking experience to have your work judged by your peers. We had two weeks to complete our story, and I needed every second of it. In fact, I kept revising it and was the last one to turn my paper in. I ended up writing two pages, read it out loud, and received a few laughs along the way for my story. All the hard work and time spent led to a decent grade, "B". I realized that writing, just like everything else requires practice. You will only improve if you put in the time and

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