Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Reading And Writing

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What vivid moments do you experience when reading, writing, or activities that involved them? Or what frustrated you about reading and writing? My experience with reading and writing start with my teacher from elementary all the way up to my teachers in high School, Ripley, Tennessee school district, and University of Memphis. My teachers during school remind me about the things I must do for class more than my college professors. In Ripley, Tennessee their district held up high standard on students with reading and writing. My favorite teacher from elementary school, Miss. Hayes, really taught me how to read and write. She would make me stay after school and go to the school library and she would pick out three books; should would take me …show more content…
Most of the work was done in class, not on my own time. I take frequent test that cover small amounts of information. Also, my homework makes up where a large portion of my grade. High school had their difference ways from teaching and student standards than …show more content…
I don’t have many tests, but the ones I do have they covers over the materials I learned in class and what we read on my own. My professor would assign me homework, but doesn’t check it and want me to do the same thing I did on homework on the test. Also, on the test I’m expected to use what I learned to a problem not memorize and repeat information. The way college teach and tested me is different from my high school. My High school and the college I attend now have somewhat similarities. They both strive me to succeed in my education. Expand my knowledge and social life. My skills and knowledge that I learned from High School, helped me through college. In high school I barely had to read to get information, but in college I must read everything to find information. College classes take a lot work to pass, but high school classes were simple to pass. Even though, they have their differences both accomplish me to basic skills I that I need through life. Overall, I still have struggle in literacy, but at the college I attend they have people to help me through this struggle. I have teachers, a writing center in the library, and online sources to help me. I read more to gain vocabulary and knowledge. I write more, since I’m in college now. Every day I take step forward to better myself in

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