Literacy timeline

Newborn: Said hey to my Aunt when I wasn’t even a day old. Age 4: I started reading Danny and the Dinosaur and Green eggs and ham. Preschool: I was advanced and leading everyone in our ABC’s and steps to becoming literate. Kindergarten: Unfortunately, I lost my top of the class status in Kindergarten and my parents were told I needed help. My reading was all chopped up. First grade: I was excited about reading and constantly had my head in the books. Second grade: I was buying up all of the books in the book fair. Reading was becoming one of my favorite things. Third grade: I was forced to go to a public school because my private school had closed down. My third grade teacher really pushed me as a writer. She formed writing groups; I went from being in the middle level to the highest level in terms of reading capabilities. Fifth grade: At the fifth grade graduation I was awarded the Most Outstanding Student trophy. This was a result of my constant reading. Seventh grade: I was published into a poetry book. Ninth grade: I met the English teacher that would put some style on my writing. Her name was Mrs. Peek. I was blessed with having Mrs. Peek until mid-11^th grade. She made me a better writer. 

Superman and me

I most identified with Superman and Me by Sherman Alexi. This narrative was about a little Indian boy seeing his father love books at an early age and following his father’s love for books. Books excited him, so he spent all day and night reading books and becoming literate. Indians were supposed to be stupid so his classmates taunted him for being intelligent. What drew me in the most is that he learned how to read from a simple comic strip and that was the foundation for the elaborate writer he is today. I learned how to read from a combination of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and Danny and the Dinosaur by Sydney Hoff. Repetition was the key to get me to comprehend and become literate, literacy is just as important to me as it is to Sherman Alexi because reading is fundamental, if you can’t read you really can’t do anything. Before I could read the words, I too would look at the pictures and create my own stories based on what I saw going on. Its crazy how a child sometimes can imagine up a better story than the writer of the book they are looking at. 

Why is writing important

Writing is important because if you can’t write, you can’t communicate effectively. I would like to be a nurse and in order to become a nurse; you have to be able to write to communicate to the doctor what you have done, and what needs to be checked on when it comes to a patient. Failure to be able to write can result in a patient being seriously hurt or killed. It is imperative to be able to write in my college courses in order to enter my career, in order to pass all of my classes, some type of writing is needed. Rather it be doing a lab report or a research paper, writing is needed to succeed. My writing needs to improve dramatically to get me where I want to be, I want to be a great writer and the only way I can achieve that goal is by practice. I know it might be a cliché but practice makes perfect.