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Honestly you can write your own answer or made up answer about it if you want to ask me questions for it to be personal to me you can
Unit 1 Narrative _ First Draft (The topic is slightly different, but related. Students had to write about the impact of literacy on their lives.)
I come from an immigrant family. I was born in Ecuador and lived there until the age of five. This changed my experience as a reader and a writer because I had the extra challenge of learning the language as well. I would probably say that coming here at a young age isn’t as big of a challenge at coming here at an older age. I still had to get acclimated but there are so many different ways for a child to learn english. For me personally it had to be a combination of video games, tv and also sports that helped me get acclimated to American culture and learn the english language. Video games are insanely popular so it’s easy to connect with others and socialize in that way. At school there were always other kids talking about what they were playing and I remember kids always taking their Nintendo’s or PSPs on field trips. When it came to cartoons I always used to wake up early in the morning to watch them. There were a variety of them to watch and it was probably the easiest way to learn english. You can learn from the characters by the way they pronounced words to how they have conversations. My favorite interests from the three mentioned however has to be sports. Coming from Ecuador the only sport I ever knew as a kid was soccer. Baseball and football caught my attention as a kid. I like competition and how intense it can be. I think that’s why it was easy to love these sports. All my interests mentioned helped me learn english because it’s how everything is presented here in America. I had to learn how to read and write so I can go deeper into some of my interests. I haven’t mentioned yet how this has impacted me as a reader and a writer. They both had their difficulties but writing was the more challenging one.
Reading I didn’t have much of a problem. The first challenge was learning how to read and improving my english. I was in an ESL (English as a Second Language) class until about second grade or so. Every year they gave a test to see if your english was improving. Personally I thought I didn’t have to take it in 2nd grade because I thought I was such a better reader than the other kids. The better my english got the easier it became for me. I think one of my favorite things as a kid was trying to improve my reading level as fast as I could. That was probably me just being a little competitive and wanting to be better than the other kids. I was fine with reading as a kid but as I got older the more I started to dislike it. Everything became more complex and subjective as not everyone has the same thinking and understanding. Also you’re often more forced to read certain books while as a younger kid you have more free reign. These things played a part in my growing dislike of reading in school. I find it easier to read things that are easy to connect to so in high school things like Shakespeare were more of a turn off than anything. This probably had a negative effect on me since I then started to not focus in my english classes as much. Nowadays I still find it difficult to read just anything. Usually if it has anything to do with any interests like my favorite sports or anything about computers and technology I have no trouble reading it. I think this is because I feel comfortable and know I can get through it without any issues.
Writing is its own separate thing that I also have issues on. I think I hated writing for a good portion of my childhood. I didn’t think I was creative enough and never really had interest in it. I’m pretty sure my third grade teacher was frustrated with me just a little because she knew I was smart and capable of doing better. When we did writing in class I was really quiet. I was basically hiding in plain sight. It was hard for me to focus and I was waiting for the topic to change. My teacher wanted more from me and this was so important. She ended up being my fourth grade teacher as well which was a huge help. I think that’s really the first year where I felt proud in one of my writings. It was an argumentative essay, I’m not sure what the topic was but my teacher let me know that I did a good job. That really gave me confidence and made me want to try to become a better writer. I can say that I’m totally comfortable with presenting facts and making an argument. It’s probably my only strength when I think about it. That year in 4th grade I improved my writing drastically but that usually just applied to argumentative essays. Whenever it came to poems or making up stories I usually struggled. This has still been the case as I got older. If it were an essay about a topic whether it be in history or writing a lab report or anything of that nature I can do well at it.
Growing up I probably didn’t care too much about reading or writing. I had comfort in other things such as Math or sometimes even science. I knew what I was doing and knew that there was a right or wrong. I can always go over and check my work. English was more complex and was more challenging. I could be writing down a thought and it would lead to nothing and I’d have to start all over again. It was annoying as a young student. I feel that I have matured to a point where I can better handle both reading and writing but I still wouldn’t consider it a strength.