...Reading, along with writing, were two very important skills that I learned at a very young age. Learning how to read and write was an exciting new skill I learned that I knew would take me far in life. I remember the day we first started learning how to write. We began writing the letters of the alphabet. First the capital letter “A”, then the lowercase, and so on and so forth. This seemed very simple at first, but once my teacher left my side things got a little challenging. She started asking the class to spell words by ourselves. I was a little uneasy in the beginning but once I grasped the concept of things and practiced more, things became much simpler. Although writing was fairly straightforward to learn, reading was more puzzling and harder to comprehend. I remember looking at the letters and knowing what they were, but pronouncing them was a totally different story. Understanding and remembering the sounds of the different letters took much longer for me to learn. Although I could speak pretty clear, seeing some of the words I spoke on a day to day basis seemed very uncommon. But, as the saying goes, practicing truly does make perfect. Once I fully understood the concepts of reading and writing, nobody could stop me from doing it. I would be the first one to raise my hand in class to read the stories from the books and to write different things on the board. This was and still is a very big accomplishment I have achieved in my life. This was also a very proud...
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...“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” How does this Sherman Alexie essay compare to the Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X essays we read earlier in the semester? What implications does Alexie invoke with his use of the Superman imagery? In comparing the three essays, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, to “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, one immediately recognizes that all three authors place high importance on the value of reading and writing. When one has the ability to read and write, one has the ability to achieve many goals. One also has the ability to make a difference in the lives of others and society. In “Learning to Read” by Frederick...
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...John Arnold Ronald Lapp, Instructor English 101 Section 1067 11 January 2016 Frederick Douglass: Learning to Read and Write Frederick Douglass’ perseverance in learning how to read and write was amazing. He was a slave with no possibility of becoming a free man. He would be chastised and punished over the mere possibility that he might be learning, so Frederick discovered other methods of educating himself. Douglass described his mistress, his master’s wife, as being an inherently good person at first. She was a very charitable woman who treated every human being she encountered as an equal. She began teaching him the alphabet but soon stopped at her husband’s demand. It was illegal to teach slaves to read or write, the penalty for which could be very harsh. Douglass explained that after she ceased educating him she became assimilated into the lifestyle of slave ownership. This manifested itself in many ways, including Douglass being reprimanded if found loitering in a room alone. He would be accused of reading books which was strictly forbidden. While this treatment would deter most people from pursuing an education it only hardened Douglass’ resolve. His thirst for knowledge would not be quelled so easily. Learning to read presented many challenges for Douglass. When he was twelve years old, he got a copy of a book entitled The Columbian Orator. The message of the book was one of liberation. A slave ran away from his owner three times, and when the third attempt failed...
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...VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Name: Institution: VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Overview of the read/write learning style The read/write learning style mainly makes the use of printed words to receive and convey learning information. Using the style enables one skill to become the input of another through the transfer of the ability to read to that of writing. The skills transfer is integral in raising the awareness of how the structural components involved in learning are shared in both reading and writing modalities (VARK, 2016). One of the reasons a leaner may choose to embrace the read/write learning style is because it facilitates cognitive concept mastery since it brings out the aspect of making sense of what is read through fixing it in memory by writing it down (Crawford, 2005). Therefore, the method strengthens the learning quality by incorporating both the senses of sight and touch. Pointed out herein is how personal reading/writing strategies compare to the VARK preferred read/write learning style strategies and how the awareness of the individual learning style (read/write style) influences teaching and learning. Preferred learning strategies for read/write learning style * Identification of the item or subject that require a study. * Development of learning goals and questions or hypotheses with regard to the subject of study. * Identification of the sources from which the study will derive concepts from. The sources ought...
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...VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Name: Institution: VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Overview of the read/write learning style The read/write learning style mainly makes the use of printed words to receive and convey learning information. Using the style enables one skill to become the input of another through the transfer of the ability to read to that of writing. The skills transfer is integral in raising the awareness of how the structural components involved in learning are shared in both reading and writing modalities (VARK, 2016). One of the reasons a leaner may choose to embrace the read/write learning style is because it facilitates cognitive concept mastery since it brings out the aspect of making sense of what is read through fixing it in memory by writing it down (Crawford, 2005). Therefore, the method strengthens the learning quality by incorporating both the senses of sight and touch. Pointed out herein is how personal reading/writing strategies compare to the VARK preferred read/write learning style strategies and how the awareness of the individual learning style (read/write style) influences teaching and learning. Preferred learning strategies for read/write learning style * Identification of the item or subject that require a study. * Development of learning goals and questions or hypotheses with regard to the subject of study. * Identification of the sources from which the study will derive concepts from. The sources ought...
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...Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass: The purpose of this essay is to explain how Frederick Douglass believed that knowledge was an avenue to freedom. Anyone can have freedom. Frederick needed to gain knowledge to have his freedom. His mistress and master prevented and stopped him from reading and writing. Also, his own mind was preventing him. Finally, he needed the time to learn how to write and read. Fredericks mistress and master both was against him learning to read and write. They both had people watch him to make sure he wasn’t reading. They both agreed that knowledge and freedom wasn’t compatible. When he was caught reading he was punished. This meaning that he didn’t have the freedom to read or write. After a while he...
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...Learning to Read and Write by Fredrick Douglass and Why I Write by George Orwell both talk about what it means to read and write. For Fredrick Douglass, reading and writing means knowledge or the ability to understand what is happing in the real world. In Learning to Read and Write Douglass writes, “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.” Using a metaphor Douglass compares the value of bread to knowledge, which helps the reader understand how important it was for him to learn how to read. Since he is saying that the “bread of knowledge” he was receiving was more valuable than the bread he gave to the kids. In addition, for Douglass to read and write also...
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...Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass is a text that I was recommended to read by a friend but I never got the chance but I am glad that I got to do so. I enjoyed reading learning to Read and write because Frederick was able to learn how to write and read in an environment that did not give him the right. After reading his story I have learned that we take being literate for granted and I am thankful that I am literate. I have also learned that being courageous can give you the strength to complete your goals and aspirations. As for Douglas he was a slave and he was lucky enough to his owner's wife Sophia to teach him English but after his owner found out he prohibited Douglass from learning how to read and write and so Douglass...
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...In his book Learning to Read and Write, Frederick gives an account of his struggle to read and write while still a young slave. Fredrick explain how his masters, the Hugh family, laid the foundation to his search for education. Mrs. Hugh introduced Douglas to reading and writing but soon drifted to slavery and racist antics courtesy of her husband. She testing all her best to stop any form of teaching Douglas. Douglas wish to learn led him to search help from white children. He always carried a book along while performing his errands and would search help from the friendly White children he met. When Douglas attained 12 years, he acquired a book, the Colombian Orator that gave him an grasp about slavery. Within the book was a conversation...
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...African-American people had become slaves from their birth and worked in the industries or barn; besides, they had no chances to know the alphabet, and how to read and write. Sometimes, they was punishment by their masters that they did not know reasons; therefore, they wanted to escape from their masters. But in the essay “Learning to Read and Write” wrote by Frederick Douglass, he was a different person than other people because he found the ways to try learning how to read and write during slavery, and resolved to run away in the world that the slaves had no rights and justice to live. In addition, it gives the readers better ideas of his struggle by recounting his life and the sense of reliving his life such as innocence when his mistress expressed more violent to him, freedom from slavery, and finally determination. Douglass felt innocence when his mistress listened to her husband to stop teaching Douglass, and she became coldly. He said, “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.” He described how his mistress expressed the characteristic and acted more violence towards slavery, but before she was a kind, soft-hearted, and enthusiastic teaching Douglass the alphabet. This quote...
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...“Once you learn how to read you, you will be forever free”- Frederick Douglass. In narrative titled “Learning to Read and Write” written by Frederick Douglass, he focused more on his personal life and experience. He showed people that although he was a slave and it was illegal for slaves to learn how to read and write he still managed to survive because that’s how important education was to him. “Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information it never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer”- Richard Rodriguez. During Richard’s essay he explains how hard it was for him to learn how to read being that he did not have a lot of support from his family. Both...
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...tend to see the classroom and students as people who need to learn their alphabets and spelling. When learning to see it means the teachers are seeing children as people who use knowledge to read and write. Piaget's statement that we don't "know what we see; we see what we know,” shines a light on teaching. As teachers each year we will have new students in our classrooms ready to learn and discover new things. Piaget's statement affects the classroom because teachers only notice and know the things they want to see. Instead of looking at drawings of maps,...
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...The main focus of the passage, Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write, is to explain the struggles that Frederick Douglass faced as he began to learn to become literate. Even though I am not a slave or not allowed to learn, I still struggled as a child when it came to learning how to read and write. I learn completely different from many other students since I am dyslexic. Dyslexia is a learning disability that causes people to have difficulty in learning, reading, and interpreting words or letter. However, dyslexia does not affect my intelligence or my appearance. My dyslexia detracts me from learning and understanding, and that sometimes making education hard. As a child my learning differences made me feel judged or misunderstood,...
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...Frederick Douglass, a slave whom evolved to editor, public speaker and a leader in the abolitionist movement, expresses his own struggles of learning as a slave in the early 1800s in his piece “Learning to Read and Write”. As a slave, Douglass studies how to read and write with the help of those around him. He eventually succeeds in achieving his ambitions, yet, remains with the desire to become a free man. As he gains more knowledge, Douglass has to change the methods he acquires his education to elude the punishment from the slave owners; he resorts to enticing children to assist him in learning during his free time. Douglass uses complex vocabulary, strong diction and unique metaphors to provide his audience with a clear and undisputed perspective of his opinion on slavery. His determination, through his writing, encourages the audience to support the abolitionist movement to cease the horrid practice of slavery. Uniquely, Douglass uses metaphors to help convey a heightened sense of emotion and imagery to his piece. He has effectively expressed his inspiring devotion to acquire knowledge, and his undying determination to become a free man; however, his achievements became a dark pit of despair upon his realization of his grim reality....
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...Examination of Different Learning Styles Cyndi Gamble Grand Canyon University The Vark Analysis: an examination of different learning styles This paper is an examination of the awareness of the learning styles as explained by the VARK website. Although there are four learning styles, this paper will focus on the read/write learning style. It will examine the preferred learning strategies, and recommended strategies for this style. It will also discuss how awareness of these styles and strategies influence not only the learner, but the instructor as well. Although some people may have a “multimodal” learning style, they will usually score higher in one of the four categories, and tend to use that style more often. Read/Write Learning style People who fall into the read/write learning style category tend to take in knowledge through the written word. Read/writers find meaning in words. These learners fit well into conventional learning environments with traditional study techniques. They appreciate instructors who articulate well with expertise and understanding of language and grammar (Claire & Chris, 2014). Read/writers like text in any form or format. Simply put, read/writers “learn best through words” ("Learning styles," n.d., p. 1). And not surprisingly, they enjoy reading both for learning and pleasure. Preferred/Identified Learning Strategies The written word is the preferred learning strategy for learners in the read/write category ("VARK," 2015)...
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