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Assignment One "My Literacy Autobiography" Please include your name in your post. Don't forget to click save or your post will be lost! Be creative! **Remember that the only way to delete is if you're in the EDIT mode.** **__My Literacy Autobiography by Brandi Crafton__**  My name is Brandi Crafton. When I was young I loved to read anything that was fiction. My love for reading began I believe when I was around seven or eight years old. I thought it was the coolest thing to get to have a library card and be able to take home whatever book that I wanted too. I am not sure on what books I read when I was that young, but around the sixth grade I began to read the Nancy Drew series and from there on out I loved mysteries. When seventh grade arrived I was forced to read by reading teacher. We had a certain amount of pages we would have to read a night and have our parents sign off on it and if we did not, we could get break or physical education detention. When you’re in the seventh grade you like any kind of class or period in the day where you really did not have to learn, so it made us begin to dislike reading because we did not get to read for fun. I do believe reading should not be done because you have too, I believe it should be done because you want to do it. After I was finished with her class in the eighth grade I took a break from reading. I had done so much of it I did not want to see another book for a long time. Around the tenth grade I began going back to the library or I would buy books from wal-mart or Books-A-million, or my friends and I would trade books after each other had read them if they were any good. My favorite book to this day is Not the Marrying Kind by Hailey North. I have read it many times. Along with most girls I like the Twilight series. I believe reading people should because they enjoy it. I don’t think reading should be forced upon anybody. I do enjoy reading myself because it somewhat gives me a break from reality. There is nothing, in my opinion, which is better than on a rainy afternoon then to curl up with a nice book, or sit by my fire place and read. I love it. **"The Beginning" by Tiquera whatley ** **Growing up as a very nosey and curious child, I started reading words as a toddler. It all started with the big purple dinosaur, Barney. Barney taught me how to say and read my numbers and colors. My first book was "My Adventure with Barney." After learning the basis I read the traditional short story in kindergarden, "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss. At home, my great-grandmother and I would read the bible every night before going to sleep. As a child reading was exciting because most children are enthusatic about learning new things. ** **The older I became the more and more reading became required. So, instead of having the choice of reading anything, we were assigned to read certain books. The books that were assigned to our class mainly talked about the wars and ancient times. I believe if the books were more interesting the students would read more. But, then again everyone has their own likes and dislikes about different books. Book reports were my favorite because we had the opportunity to select our own book. Reading can only be interesting if you are attracted to the book. ** **Reading is enjoyable to me because it helps me see the world differently through others eyes, it inspires me in a different way. My favorite authors are Sharon Flake, Mildrew D. Taylor, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison to name just a few. I seem to only be interested in books such as non-fiction novels and novels based on drama, abuse, hardships, suspense, and inspirational novels that I can relate to. I often read now to relax my mind and thoughts; I like to become the characters in the novels so that I could have a clearer understand on the situations. Reading has helped me get through many struggles in my life. ****﻿ ** My Literacy Autobiography  By Mika Houserova   Reading is amazing thing to do. I can remember how much I loved it when I was little child. I used to close myself in attic room of our old house and stay there for hours with my book. Sitting in big comfortable armchair I imagined all the stories I read. Most of them were tales about kids just like me, who had the most exciting adventures. I cannot even count how many times I wished I was one of them. I wished fight with witch like Dorothy in Wizard of Oz or discover all wonders from Alice’s Wonderland. These books shows just little part of my reading world. Most of my experiences came from books written in my native language- in Czech. There is no child who never hear about Foglar’s //Rychle sipy// or Capek’s //Dasenka//. I know that these names do not mean anything to you, but these are part of my national history. These stories are set in childhood of our dads and moms. They shows us, new generation, how it was. They shows us how boys used to play in woods and fish on rivers. To me they are best stories, because they are written by life. Later, in my sixth grade, my free time for reading reduced to just a really short time a day. You know every teenager wants to have social life and nobody likes “bookworms” who spend all their time with their nose stuck in book. So my reading time just got shorter and shorter and then finally disappeared completely. Do not worry my story has happy ending. When I got to high school I found my love to books again. Honestly, I fell in love with classical literature as is //The Decameron// by Boccaccio, //Anna Karenina// by Tolstoy, Goethe’s //Faust// or Baudleaire’s //The Flowers of Evil// and //The Old Man and the Sea// by Hemingway. Also, Homer was really great writer. I still love classical writers. I think they should be read, because they proved in their work that they deserve it. I mean, look at it, they are death for hundreds of years, but people still read them and their books or poems were translated to tens of languages. I guess, I will always love to read if there is good book.
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__//by Samanthakay Deese, August 24, 2010//__
Many of my reading experiences as a young child are also fond memories. My great grangfather Mr. Glenn Gladwell a mason and volunteer firefighter as well as my wonderful loving mother read to me as an adolecent. I enjoy thinking of these memories. We sat in my grandfathers home and read every Walt Disney storybook one could think of as well as Dr. Seuss books like "Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham". As for my mother, Darla Johnson and myself, we enjoyed other story books like "The Princess and the Pea" and stories of Jesus Christ and Moses from a very large childrens bible storybook.

Time passed as it has the tendency to do (so fast i might add) I grew older and as I did my reading habits began to change. That is they stop, besides the reading of cat dog and the moon books in grade school. I was more intersted in bike riding and playing in the woods and having club houses made of pine limbs and mud. As I proceeded into high school I started to enjoy reading a little (emphasizing on the little) more. We read the "Gift of the Magi" my freshmen year as well as "The Most Dangerous Game" which is by far my favorite short story every written.

In conclusion, as a freshmen in college I am infatuated with the Sookie Stackhouse series. This is a fiction story of vampires, faries, werewolves, panthers, myiands, shapshifters (shifters shift into different animals, whatever is closest or their main shift which is what is common to them without having to see it. This is also a series on HBO called True Blood. As most television versus books goes, the books are always more detailed so therefore they are more intruiging than that of the television series. I leave you with this note, saying if a person like myself who has never had a love of reading can find something interesting to themselves to read, then your love of reading will definetly increase and be a part of who you are forever. I know mine certainly has.

__ My Literacy Autobiography __ __ By Alicia Talbert August 26, 2010 __ Like most people, I learned to read at a young age. My mom would read to me and my brother most every night. We would often want to hear the same stories over and over again, which sometimes annoyed my mom. When she thought I was old enough she asked me “why don’t you try to read this book tonight?” and with her help, I eventually got through it. I believe the book was “Inside, Outside, Upside Down.” I was so proud of myself that I wanted to try another, but alas it was bedtime. The next few of night, I sat by my mom and I read some stories, with her help of course, until my reading skills sharpened and I was reading “Green Eggs and Ham” all by myself. Before I knew it, it was time to go to school. There my reading abilities only got better. I progressed naturally through each grade, reading everything that was assigned and a lot of things that weren’t. In my senior English/ literature class in high school, we studied a lot of poetry and I loved it. I also found one of my favorite authors, Ellen Hopkins. Her books are amazing. She has a very different writing style then most authors but that’s one of the reasons I love her work. I have read all of her work multiple times and can’t wait for more. I read a lot of different types of literary works, especially now in college. It’s not good to limit oneself to one specific type of books, or authors. __My Literacy Autobiography__ __By: Angela Francis 8/26/10__ When i was a tolder I remember reading everyday. There were amazing books back then like //The Cat in the Hat//, //The Kissing Hand//, //Clifford//, and many more! Those books bring back so many memories. My mom would read to my brother and I almost everynight. Then I would start reading them and got better, especially when i was in school. My favorite book in elementary school was the //Polar Express//; the best book ever! In high school it is a totally different level of reading. I actually did enjoy reading different books in high school. I read a lot of plays and poems, and actually enjoyed them. As of right now i do not have a favorite author, but i hope in my college years i do find one and read a variaty of books. Jocelyn Alexander August 30, 2010 My Literary Journey I've been around reading all my life. My mother is someone who is very into literature. I myself love to read. I like to read on my own time though. I don't like being told what to read especially if it's not my type of material. My mother and father both read to me as a child. My brother, who is seven years older then me, would try but it didn't work out very well. I stopped reading as much once I got to the 7th and 8th grade I believe. Only reason is because I became more about being social rather than reading. I do still read to this day. The past two years I've read some books by Ellen Hopkins. I really like those books. The books tell a story just like any other, yet they look and are written in poetry form. ====When I was in elementary school, we had this system called accelerated reader. I loved to get those points from reading the books. I'd be in the 4th grade readin 10th grade level books. Reading has always been a thing in my household. My father use to make us take an hour out of the day and read in a quiet room. Then afterward we would have to tell him about what we read. He also would try and improve my reading skills, making them faster, by timing me on reading pages and tell me how many I should have done before the time was up. ==== ====Now a days, though, I really don't read too much anymore unless I'm just really bored. It's not good beacause that's where my vocabulary comes from and I'd like to expand it even more. I still love to read when I do, it gives a great image if you think deep enough. It also brings certain emotions out of me which i might need at times. Mysteries and teen life stories are my favorites. Reading can be fun but it's not a priority any more in my life. Technology and being social has definitely been my main focus, entertainment wise. ====

''My Literacy Autobiography" By: Lauren Bradley
===When I was young I loved to read the //Pooh Bear.// He was my favorite because he was fun, sweet, and entertaining. I honestly can say these books have shapped my personality somewhat. I've always loved to read good books. If books are not entertaining it is very hard for me to read them. Even though I loved the books, I dont think they were the best choice for helping me read.=== ===Throughout my school years, I didnt really read unless I had to. Except for the Twilight series. Reading has never been my highest priority. I prefer to watch movies or somone tell me about the book. I think if I liked reading more, or was better at it, I would love the read more. I can't really remember other books I read when I was little. My memory is somewhat blurred. But, I do remember loving the //Pooh bear// books.===

 "My Literacy Autobiography"  by: Joseph A. Daniels Jr., August 24,2010 As a youth I can recall sitting on the porch on the East side of Birmingham reading books that still ring in my ear today. Perhaps, one of my greatest memories are sitting in my rocking chair reading Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Once my reading became better I remember walking around kindergarden saying "Sam I am" yes I do eat eggs and ham, although thats probably not the way it went. I have always enjoyed reading books, they allow me to open a new joy within my life. It depends on the book being read at the time, if it is boring I may not read it or get into depth with it as I would one of my interest.

As I became older reading became more of a challenge for me. I would no longer force myself to read. Reading became a lost of interest. However,it was not until the eleventh grade when all of these authors began to be thrown at me such authors as: Zora Neale Hurston, Peter Jenkins,F. Scott Fitzgerald,and Lorraine Hansberry were all included in this particular english class. A new shadow had come over me, I don't know what it was but my interest suddenly began to spark again....I love reading now.

My autobiography by Jacob Durham throughout my life i havent really read many books cause reading just hasnt really interested me much. But with the books i have read are about war, fighting, action books, like Band of Brothers, Behind Enemy Lines, and Black Hawk Down. One of my favorite books when i was a little kid was cat in the hat. "Red fish Blue fish" "one fish two fish". i went around the library, just screaming that line cause that was only one i remembered from the book. Hopefully this class will help me to enjoy reading, casue im sure theres alot of good books out there. My Literacy Autobiography by Oktawian Cieslak

I can't really recall when I first started to read but I think it was when I first came to America. When I first came to America I was only seven years old and I did not know any words in English. I had to go to ESOL with the other children who did not know how to speak English as well. The first readings were some short stories reading for comprehension. In ESOL I remember reading about hot air ballons. In high school our American Literature class has read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". I never recall just sitting down ,and reading a book just for fun. Basically I do not like to read I prefer to do some other fun activities. For instance going fishing or hanging out with some friends.

My Literacy Autobiography by Cheyenne Ervin