As someone who just graduated high school you would think I would have a perfect idea about what first started my love for reading and writing. If you looked at my room today, with poster of movies and books plastered on blue walls, and books lining my double wide window, you would think I have always loved reading. I mean I have at least a hundred books in my room and another hundred sitting in the cabinet in my living room. If that does not scream book lover to you then I do not know what a book lover means.
I guess my literacy narrative really started in fourth grade and keep in mind I was young. I had the hugest crush on the cutest boy in school. He was one of the star football player, caring, and super funny. It lasted for many years
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I even write in journals today, though never with a pink sparkly pen again. I think I truly started to write in that hideous pink journal because I thought we were destined to be together. I thought the journal would preserve our memories together so I could tell our children how we meet and fell in love. Anyways, this lead to me starting to write fanfictions about my favorite television shows or books in middle school. Mainly I wrote during study hall and all I can truly remember is writing everything on graphing paper because I loved graphing paper and it was easier to draw on the side of the pages when I was thinking about what to write next.
I guess my writing is somewhat decent at the time. My friends seemed to love my fanfictions, though they could have been lying to spare my feelings. We would all get together during our free time to write stories. We would read each other's stories and edit each other. It was countless hours of writing stories and talking. I think all of that writing with my friends made me love writing and now when I write I think about easier times with my friends. My writing after this started to become became a stress
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I might have hated to poetry readings and some of the short stories, but I loved the short story I had to write for my final. It was a minimum of twelve pages typed and single spaced. I wrote fourteen pages about a zombie apocalypse, I know very lame, however the writing was not from a third person perspective. It was written in a form of diary entries following three different women’s perspective. Naturally, like in all apocalypse stories most of the characters died and my story was not any different. However, that was not the end instead I made the story turn into third person perspective where it reveals everything that just happened was a virtual reality video
My relationship with writing has been much like roller coaster.Some experiences I had no control over. Other experiences were more influential. Ultimately it wasn’t until I started reading not because I had to read but because I wanted to, that's when my relationship reached change. I would have probably never cared about writing as I do today if it weren't for the critics in my family. When I was a child, my aunts and uncles always been in competition with who's child is better in school. I have always hated reading and writing because of the pressure to prove my family wrong was overwhelming for me. I had to prove them wrong and show them that I was capable of being "smart" which according to them was getting straight A's in all your classes.
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
Moving to middle school was a big step and responsibility. Going from reading chapter books to nonfiction stories or even school textbooks for research papers changed my life. In 6th grade I was a decent writer, but still not the best that I could be. Anytime that I wasn’t doing homework for other classes, I was trying to get better at writing. I wrote stories in my journal at home and showed my parents ask what they thought. They both said that they were great stories, but that I could improve on my vocabulary and sentence structure. With my parents giving me advice I changed the words to be more complex, and it helped my writing improved extremely.
My literacy journey began long before I had actually learned how to read or write. While recently going through baby pictures with my mother, we came across a photo of my father and I book shopping on the Logos boat, a boat that would come to my island every year that was filled with books for our purchasing. Upon looking at this picture, my mother was quite nostalgic and explained how they began my journey to literacy through experiences like this. My earliest memory of experiencing literature was as a small child. My parents would read bedtime stories to me each night before I went to bed. I vividly remember us sitting on the bed together with this big book of “365 bedtime stories for 365 days” and we read one story each day until we had
At first, it wasn’t easy to write and appreciate my writing, because I used to compare my writing to professional writing, and the first thing that came to my mind was that my writing was horrible. Later on I started to view writing in a different perspective. This was when I realized that not everyone writes about the same thing, and that every writer has their own ideas and way of writing.
All I could remember on my journey to literacy was my concern over my brother and sister’s ability to read and write including solving math problems. That did not really motivate not to become literate; I was extremely playful as a child. What I am able to remember is my first day of school, I cried like a baby when my mom dropped me off. I soon began to grow out of my baby stage and school became really interesting. Even though it was not as hard as it is now, the value that pushed me to be literate was how my teacher was able to discipline students if they didn’t give the best to their education.
My relationship with literacy began when I started elementary school and that was the first starting point of my positive relationship with literacy. I really started to grow as a reader and writer throughout my middle school and high school years. Throughout my years of going to school I had many positive experiences that shaped my view of literacy today. My literacy skills have also enhanced throughout my educational years.
I suppose it’s a good thing that many things shaped my literacy skills. A dozen heads are better than one, after all (and to think out my ideas, sometimes I need those extra brains, but that’s what friends are for). I’m confident that I will succeed in the writing field, wherever it may be – literature, movies, gaming – and I’m forever thankful for my talents, for I know that so many others have not had the encouragement or will to read and write as I have. So, here’s to the future of my writing, and hopefully it will be just as creative as my past was.
You could almost say that it is in my blood to read. (My parents have never been big into reading, but it seemed like my grandparents continuously had some type of book in their hands.) Although I appreciate literature I often find that I no longer have time to read for pleasure anymore. Work, school, and general life has encompassed my time so much that I feel as if I will miss deadlines if I stop for a moment just to read. Reading has become something that I do only if it is required. I long for the chance to really read again just to be able to get away and become a part of that
I am not the kind of person who talks or writes much. Putting my thoughts on papers is something I have always struggled with doing. I believe this class will help me improve on transferring my thoughts to paper, in an organized fashion. I look forward to becoming a better writer because of this class.
From the time that I could read, my parents were pushing me to excel in school and do the best that I could. This included reading, which quickly became my favorite part of school. Although I grew disinterested reading the nonfiction stories that droned on and on about dates, facts, and periods of history, I grew to enjoy reading fictional stories more and more. As I became a better reader, I began to outpace the picture books in exchange for chapter books. Diving into these incredible stories, I could soon visualize them and was amazed that the author could create a story from nothing, creating an entire world in their mind.
I think my reading went pretty well this semester. The books I really enjoyed were Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Burn Journals, and Geography Club. I didn't enjoy Paper Towns or Six Months Later very much. I did enjoy reading a wide variety of books, but it was challenging to find ones that I didn't lose interest in after the first chapter. It was also challenging to know when a good time to read was. The time I was most interested in reading was the day that I chose the book, because if I wait too long after reading the first part of a book I will lose interest in the book. So usually, since I chose almost all my books right before SSR, I would want to continue reading the book as soon as possible. This created
There are many different types of events that shape who we are as writers and how we view literacy. Reading and writing is viewed as a chore among a number of people because of bad experiences they had when they were first starting to read and write. In my experience reading and writing has always been something to rejoice, not renounce, and that is because I have had positive memories about them.
Writing has always been both a hate and love relationship, respectively. My parents would congratulate me on my progress in writing-based classes growing up, I would always internally struggle with it. My dyslexia would greatly hinder my speech abilities as a kid; consequently, making me feel very insecure with my learning abilities. However, my trials have led me to grow and mature into what I have become today. Now in towards helping me achieve what I initially thought was nearly impossible. My overall relations with writing has always been a lesson on how to mature and overcome life’s many obstacles.
I don’t remember a day in which I haven’t read a short story or finished a 400-page chapter book. Reading and writing has always been apart of my life; it is my passion. I would have to say my passion started to grow when my mom would read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe every night to my siblings and me. The way she would change her voice for different characters or how she could read with such fluency was astonishing to my seven-year-old self. I have dyslexia with some of my letters, so I knew if I ever wanted to be like my mother, I would have to practice and practice.