My Path to Literacy
For a very long time writing and reading was a huge struggle for me. I was one of those students who was very intelligent, but disliked reading tremendously and was often told, “You write the way you talk”. The older I grew the more I realized that my struggles with writing was due to my lack of reading. I was aware of my issues but because it became a part of my writing habits it was hard to adapt to anything different. I wanted to be like everyone else and be a good authentic and productive writer but it seemed almost impossible. It wasn’t until my junior year in high school when writing became less of a struggle for me. The day I stepped foot in my English 4 class I knew that year was going to be the worst year ever, …show more content…
She knew I hated reading so she often made me read out loud in class. Sometimes I thought she was doing things to get under my skin on purpose, but she was only trying to help me. Eventually we built that student/teacher relationship. When I wrote terrible papers she would give me ideas to improve it and make me rewrite it. She was a teacher that made me write and expand my mind. She taught me not only how to be an authentic and productive writer but also how to analyze and think critically about things. Everything she taught me helped a lot, not only in her class but it also prepared me for college courses I have taken here at Francis Marion University since …show more content…
Jones. In so many ways she reminded me of Ms. Kelly. Not just because they are both women but because their techniques for writing was alike in so many ways. I thought I was retaking English 4 in high school all over again. Like Ms. Kelly, Dr. Jones saw my potential and she used that to motivate me. My worst paper was writing a critique on the film “Kramer vs. Kramer”. When I wrote the draft for that paper I thought it was perfect but I was wrong. She gave it back and I rewrote it three times before it was the perfect English paper I ever wrote. Each time I went to her to talk about the mistakes I made, she helped me and gave me ways to improve my
For a very long time writing and reading was a huge struggle for me. I was one of those students who was very intelligent, but disliked reading tremendously and was often told, “You write the way you talk”. The older I grew the more I realized that my struggles with writing was due to my lack of reading. I was aware of my issues but because it became a part of my writing habits it was hard to adapt to anything different. I wanted to be like everyone else and be a good authentic and productive writer but it seemed almost impossible. It wasn’t until my junior year in high school when writing became less of a struggle for me. The day I stepped foot in my English 4 class I knew that year was going to be the worst year ever, …show more content…
She knew I hated reading so she often made me read out loud in class. Sometimes I thought she was doing things to get under my skin on purpose, but she was only trying to help me. Eventually we built that student/teacher relationship. When I wrote terrible papers she would give me ideas to improve it and make me rewrite it. She was a teacher that made me write and expand my mind. She taught me not only how to be an authentic and productive writer but also how to analyze and think critically about things. Everything she taught me helped a lot, not only in her class but it also prepared me for college courses I have taken here at Francis Marion University since …show more content…
Jones. In so many ways she reminded me of Ms. Kelly. Not just because they are both women but because their techniques for writing was alike in so many ways. I thought I was retaking English 4 in high school all over again. Like Ms. Kelly, Dr. Jones saw my potential and she used that to motivate me. My worst paper was writing a critique on the film “Kramer vs. Kramer”. When I wrote the draft for that paper I thought it was perfect but I was wrong. She gave it back and I rewrote it three times before it was the perfect English paper I ever wrote. Each time I went to her to talk about the mistakes I made, she helped me and gave me ways to improve my