...After reading Sherman Alexie's "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" I feel very shocked. I really can't remember what I was doing when I was young. Maybe I was watching TV, playing with my friends, having a afternoon nap and so on. At the same age, he started to reading foreign language books and comic books , this phenomenon will never happen in my life. Maybe he was smart and arrogant, but without the atmoshere of his family and his pervenance spirit ,he won't became such a successful people. His father like reading books and brought them from the pawnshops and secondhand and the books were so many that were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedroom and living room. He use every moments to read books such as lunch time, in the car when his family traveled, in shopping malls and so on. He also have a goodness heart and must be very patriotic. Because he always worried about the future of the Indian children and visit schools and teach creative writing to them. what;s more, although the children refuse and resist him, he never give up to save their lives. I don' t really like the Indian thinking. They hate the smart Indian people and expected to be stupid. Like what he said in the book the Indian children were monosyllabic in front of the non-Indian teachers, but after come home they were talking about complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table. How could they do this ? To be smart is everyone want and they just want to be stupid. In comic book panel...
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...Second Semester Final Exam: Portfolio A: Narrative/Descriptive Writing Parasailing (Vignette) Narrative and descriptive writing is the writing style I enjoy the most. The vignette I wrote about is a story that happened to me when I was younger and this kind of writing allows me to relive this memory on paper. I find this kind of writing easier to write and easy to relate to because it’s all about me. It is harder for me to write and relate to a book that we read in class since it isn’t about my personal life. This kind of writing style helps me reflect on the something I learned because I have seen how much I have grown this school year based off of what I wrote about and my writing style. This kind of writing style allows me to describe...
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...2015 Traumatized by a Reading and Writing Experience As a kid, most of my early childhood memories about learning to read and write were traumatizing for me. I went through most of my school days disliking reading and writing. I was not extremely confident in my ability to perform and keep up with my peers. I felt like I could not do anything right. One school morning I recollect, it was my first day as a third grader. In a class, all I could smell was crayons and glue as I sat in my desk. Then I hear my teacher calling my name in a classroom activity to read aloud. I took a deep breath and began to read, then realized I could not pronounce must of the words in the book. I was pausing unnecessarily and stuttering out the words. The passage was small but seems like hours had passed as I read slowly. My palms were sweating and my voice was cracking. The students were laughing softly and huffing and puffing, expressing how impatient they were with me. My teacher did nothing to control the students. I finished reading then I put my head down quickly and cried. I was awfully emotional and felt worthless. I was consequently embarrassed and felt humiliated. This teacher was the worst ever I thought to myself. I don't think she knew how to handle this type of a problem. My teacher sent a note home to my parents telling them that I need tutoring for reading. I took the letter home to my parents to read and sign. I felt like my parent would take up for me. Instead, I was disciplined...
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...the 6th grade when writing started to get the best of me. Now that I look back I don’t think I was ever taught how to write a real essay. What got me into writing more were my grandfather and my niece. They both inspire me in many different ways to enjoy writing. As I’ve gotten older I gradually progressed with my writing skills. I failed my first SOL test in the 6th grade. I enjoy the reading part but when its time to comprehend everything I just read, is were find the most trouble. Failing the SOL test determined if you were eligible to enter the next grade. I honestly feel as if no has taken time to lead me step by step through the stages of developing an essay. I wouldn’t say I hate writing essays I just continue to cease to write them even when I’m fail on the verge of failing a class. Failing that test took a big role on me because I could never understand how to write. It wasn’t one of those things that I just couldn’t grasp on to. My Grandfather was always a book junkie. He always told me that reading is fundamental and that it can get you further through life. He’s the one who inspired me to get into reading more often. My grandfather was in and out of jail since he was a kid, were he grew up in the most rural areas. It amazed me that he never finished with middle or high school but can still have an intellectual conversation with someone with his or her master’s degree. He always told me if it weren’t for reading a book a day he wouldn’t...
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...many hours spent reading and writing what was known to be correct "Standard" English. I first found this to be a great shortcoming, but I knew that one day I wanted to have a great career. At this time I had no idea what I was going to become but trough reading and writing I had a few ideas. One idea was to be a truck driver or a pharmacist, but I later discovered I liked law enforcement much better. Through the many years of school I have found it very hard to get through my English classes. I found writing to be the hardest subject, but I always gave it my best. Reading I found much easier. I have always liked reading more it is easier than to write something. My mom always helped me through by encouraging to do so. She always told me “son if you just give it your best then you will make good grades”. Those words have stuck with the throughout my life. I strive to do my best in everything I do today. I give it my best. I think the reason I struggled with writing is because I’m more of a hands on person. I have been this way for as long as I can remember. I used to take things apart just to put them back together. There was no reading instructions, I just did this without them. I still sometimes put things together without reading instructions. One time, I put a shelf together without reading the instructions. I quickly learned the hard way that I should have read the instructions. In writing, the instructions are not always very clear to me or very...
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...strategies that I use when writing are online writing tools, and rereading my writing aloud. The benefits of reading aloud my writing are to make sure the order of ideas in a paper to make sense, see grammatical mistakes, and gaps in your explanation. Therefore, rereading my writing will help me to edit, change, add, and delete information on my papers. While taking English course at Mission College, I have learned that revision is the process of returning to a previously drafted piece of writing to incorporate feedback, add on, and refine specific elements of the assignment. In addition, revising builds my understanding of writing as a process that is ongoing, reflective, and nuanced, and can facilitate self-assessment and academic goal setting....
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...Professor Rothman English 101 I personally never took reading or writing seriously when I was a kid. I am very fortunate to have my family because they have always pushed me to learn to read and write. Truthfully speaking I don’t think I would have gotten where I am if it wasn’t for my family. In truth, reading and writing are one of the best skills that you can obtain, it is a skill that most of us learn at a young age, and it is also one of the greatest and most helpful tools that will make our lives much easier. I remember the first book I ever read or tried to read was “The Cat in the Hat” and I remember that because that was the first book my uncle ever got for me. My uncle played a big role in my literacy life. It was the first day of elementary when me and my brother who is a year older than me were handed a blank composition book from my uncle. Every day after school my brother and I would have to write a full page of everything that we did from the morning to the end of school and everything we learned. My uncle would come home from work and check our writing and after that was he would make us read for 15 minutes. The reason me and brother would always read very carefully was because at the end of the book we would have to write what the book was about in our own words. I never liked to read but writing on the other hand excited me. I remember in fifth grade when the teacher would make me read in front of the whole class I would hate it. I would prefer to...
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...My experience from English 101 helped me grow as a reader and writer. One manner in which my English skills improved transpired through reading and writing assignments. Essays remarkably helped me understand the English language to a greater extent. Moreover, the templates from they say I say the moves that matter in academic writing expanded my understanding of the point the author was trying to make. Additionally, templates simplified my task when summarizing articles for homework. My vocabulary expanded considerably because of the readings assigned. All things considered what unquestionably stood out to me was that the professor offered excellent feedback during office hours. Essays remain crucial to my growth in reading and writing. These assignments, in particular, forced me to scrutinize the previous reading assignments assigned. Which helped me formulate a better essay do to my understanding of the readings. Additionally, writing essays positively challenged me as a reader because I had to reexamine my essays and identify my mistakes. However, I was able to grow in this area in particular because of the feedback the professor gave in our drafts. Professor Davis's feedback aided me in understanding what errors I had to be watching for....
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...assumed the class was going to be a normal English class with boring reading and writing from a giant textbook. As I made progression in the class throughout the school year I realized there's more to ERWC than a giant textbook. We used many different types of engaging modules with topics relatable and debatable. With these modules I was able to pick up different reading and writing abilities from each one. I learned that ERWC meant Effective Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum. The course would teach me the integration of interactive reading and writing processes. I found that the overall structure of the modules was well thought out. The prereading addresses the topic very detailed while trying to get you to incorporate your life. It gets my mind running and thinking about questions for the reading ahead. The reading allows you to gather all types of different information for your writing. While the post reading allows you to reflect and question what you just read about. One of the modules that I found to be most effective to me was What’s next? Life After High School. I chose this...
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...interested in reading and writing was when I was about 5 and I read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.Seuss. I remember just loving to read that book that I read it like 10 times and then my parents got me more Dr.Seuss’s books and I remember reading those books very quickly. I really enjoyed Dr. Seuss’s books because the drawings were so colorful and the rhyming I loved how his books always rhymed or how he created words to make the book rhyme. As I grew older my interested in literature varied widely, but I really enjoy reading vampire love stories. My love for this genre started with the Twilight series by Stephanie Myers and since those books did so well, writes continued to make more vampire love stories. Thus, making...
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...Literacy Narrative I have never been a real fan of reading. It used to sound boring and a waste of time. I honestly thought that reading would never benefit me in a source of way; but reading is beneficial to your body and mind. Put this in perspective, reading and writing is food for the brain. This might sound odd but reading has helped me in managing my stress. No matter how much stress I have had in work, school, or relationships it all just fades away when I immerse myself into a great story. Reading can even relax your body by lowering your heart rate and relaxing the tension in your muscles. Opening a book and letting yourself take the full effect of the story will help you to escape from the stressors of everyday life. Have you ever...
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...reader. Finally a guidance counselor gave the encouragement that made me into a good reader. If my elementary school teacher had shown compassion I would have been a good reader long before. Instead I heard Can you read? Can you write? Boy, you need a reading and writing class. The teacher did not realize that her job was to teach me reading and writing. Elementary school teachers need lessons in respect and compassion. As a seven year old in the second grade at Robinson Elementary school I heard often that I should be in a special class from my teacher Mrs. Crawford. I loved reading and writing before Mrs. Crawford class. From preschool to the first grade I use to sit down and read books to my mother and other family members. That all changed during my second grade year Mrs. Crawford and the other children would make fun of me when it was my time to read I would stumble over words miscall words many times it was because I was nervous and afraid. If Mrs. Crawford would have worked with me on my reading and writing I would not have struggled so hard though elementary school she could have setup a tottering program that would have enhanced my reading or she could stayed late some days after school with me to help me develop into a good reader. Instead Mrs. Crawford found it best to belittle me and hart my feelings . By the time I was in the 3rd grade I was completely terrified of reading and writing. when it was my time to read out loud in class I would do just about...
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...thinking, writing and collaboration. The first area that I feel I have improved the most in is critical thinking. Critical thinking is a very importnt skill and is defined as the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment. The reason why I believe I was able to imporve my critical thinking is due to all of the class readings. We read several things from poems, to short stories to actual books and as a result I saw my critical thinking imporving over time. When it came to reading something in class I found mysef using reading strategies such as making predictions, infrences, asking questions etc. This allowed me to truly think about what it was that I waqs...
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...myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very passionate about. My passion for reading began back as second and third grader in Elementary school. One thing I remember is I always got excited when the teachers would pass out the booklets advertising all the scholastic books you could choose from for that month. I would be very meticulous in my process of picking books based on the pictures and description as I only wanted to get ones I thought were best. There was no better feeling walking into class and seeing the piles of books at the front of the room. I would sometimes sneak a peek to see which kid had the biggest stack for that month. Once I got my books I would treat the books with the utmost care, as if they were precious treasure. And to me that’s really what they were, my own valued collection of treasure...
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...the highest reading level by third grade. When I was in fifth grade I was introduced to essays. I enjoyed writing them because it was the thought that I could write anything I wanted on paper for people to read. It was then I realized I had a passion for books and writing. To emphasize, growing up I loved every type of book, especially the ones that challenged me. I liked books with pictures, but I preferred books with no pictures. With me constantly reading, I always had two or three books checked out from the library. My first favorite books were Junie B. Jones book. I could never put those books down. Every time my school received the magazines to order books with the school, I was the girl always buying the Junie B. Jones book set. At one point I had every book, and I had read every single one of them. I had to find a different series to begin. As I began my journey to find the book for me, I stumbled along...
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