Personal Narrative: My Literacy Journey

My Literacy Journey “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” This is a well-known quote by the famous writer, Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is an incredible writer and someone who I have always loved. One of my favorite childhood books is by Dr. Seuss; it is called “Are You my Mother?” Even before I learned to read myself, this book was being read to me. Thinking back to the early years of my life, I always remember someone reading to me. Every night in my house I would have one, if not both, of my parents read to me and I always looked forward to that. That is where my passion for reading began. Reading and writing have been a practiced skill in my household and ever since my childhood I have spent hours working

Miss Howey will forever be my favorite teacher, I loved her style of teaching, I fell in love with a new book that was introduced to me, and learned that I love writing. I think that I could relate to her and she made time to make sure that I was comfortable in her class. If I ever had a problem I could tell her and knew that she would help me. Miss Howey introduced To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee to me. That is one of my favorite books that I have ever read. She made sure that the class understood what happened and helped us analyze what we had read and I think that is why I enjoyed it so much. As sophomores we were required to write different papers, with various topics. The first paper that I had ever been assigned to write that was longer than one page was about how I got my name. When I first heard the prompt I was not excited, but after spending weeks planning, writing, deleting and revising I learned that I enjoyed writing. Without Miss Howey I don’t think that I would enjoy writing like I do now. Out of all of my English teachers, Miss Howey is hands down one of the teachers that impacted me the