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Remember that the only way to delete is if you're in the EDIT mode. My Literacy Autobiography Chris Dukes When I started reading around the age of 6 or so, I enjoyed it. Throughout elementary school and into middle school I loved to read, but around 7th grade or so I just stopped reading. I stopped reading because teachers assigned books to be read and I never found any of the books interesting, so if I actually read the book, I only read the first few pages. If a book doesnt interest me within the first few pages I have a hard time continuing to read and I usually stop reading. In four years of high school, I read one assigned book completely. Thank God for sparknotes. I hate being told what to read. I would much rather choose my own book to read so that I may actually find one that isn’t boring and that I can finish. __My Literacy Autobiography__ by: Kendall Foster August 31, 2010

When i was a child i loved reading stories that had a mystery behind it. Some of my favorite childhood books were Harry Potter, and Nancy Drew books. In middle school we had to do star reading tests and i remember Harry Potter books gave us the most points in our tests. As i grew up i didn't read as much and stopped doing the reading assignments we had over the summer for school even though it efftected my grade in some cases. I've never been a huge fan of reading but the one book i absolutely love is "Twilight". I could read that book many times. "Twilight" has a great plot to it and you never know whats going to happen next in it. The only time i like to read is when its books that i pick out and enjoy, not somthing someone makes me read.

__"My Literacy Autobiography"__ by __Tai`Toya Tucker__ August 25, 2010 I've always be fascinated with books but however i have my limit with books. I like a specific genre such as mysteries and romance novels. I guess you can say if i read or attempt to read any other book i lose interest and tend not to comprehend the story. But i don't have an issue reading assigned pages in a textbook because i know it's a have to do it kind of thing. As far as me wanting to read when i was younger, i was kinda excited about it actually. I would ask my mom and my grandmother when will i learn to read. They always gave the same answer, "you will really soon dont worry." I even remember sitting on the living room floor trying to read cat in the hat, which i must say was my favorite book when i was five years old. Some of the current books i have read this past summer was kiss of a demon king by kresley cole, born in ice by nora roberts, honest illusions by nora roberts, shadows of yesterday by sandra brown,two little girls in blue by mary higgins clark, lie down with the devil by linda barnes, and just take my heart by mary higgins clark.

__My Literacy Autobiography__ __by Patt Smith__, August 24, 2010

I have been dodging books all my life. I hate books because i look at the words and get bored. They could never keep my attention. I remember when I was in just 6th grade we would get reading project over the summer time. I would always get the book, read the first few pages, and then lose the book.Then i would forget about the reading project and never get back to it. When school started back I would get on spark notes, which is a web site that had notes chapter by chapter on what I was reading about and study. A week or two after school would start our teacher would begin the quizzes from the summer reading project and i would do just fine.

My High School years we would begin reading projects in class and we would have to read out loud and I would never want to get picked. I can read just fine with my eyes but when it comes to reading out loud I would listen to my voice and i would get nervous. when i get nervous i would begin messing up with my words and from there on i would never like to read.  __My Literacy Autobiography"__ __By: Salina Branum__

I actually learned how to read when i was in just kindergartin. I turned out to be pretty good at it! I realized i hated reading when i had to do it all the time, in class and for homework. The only time i enjoy to read in the least is when i am reading the children stories to my son at bedtime or reading a good magazine. Maybe reading will grow on me, considering the fact i am having to do it every day in college. But i dont think it will! __"My Literacy Autobiography"__ __By: Ronald Lampkin, Jr.__

Though reading is a very important part of society, I have to admit that I dred the subject. I can remember as a child being told by my mother, " Boy, get over here and read a book for an hour!" I would always respond, "But, Mom I want to watch tv." " Idon't care what you want to do, you're reading this book!" "Okay." From then on I hated books that interferred with my tv time. Through my years of middle school and highschool, I relied on spark notes to get by on doing good on essays. For me to read a book, it must be interesting and pertaining to situations and circumstances of my life. At the moment, I read only when necessary.

My Literacy Autobiography __By Natasha Hargett__ As as child I enjoy my mom reading me Dr Seus book, " The Cat in the Hat." I would want her to read to me every night. Then I got a little older and I begin to hate reading. My mother would always say, "Put down that phone and read." I would never listen to her. As I got in high school, I begin to pick up me reading habits because of research paper. I think if I never had research paper I would never pick up a book again. I begin to volunteer at elementary school and read to different classes, and younger kids really enjoy reading alot now. I do enjoy reading alot more. I love reading book full of drama and I am a big fan of Zane books! If it wasn't for school and my mother pushing me then I probably would have really bad reading habit. I have learn that I can really get a meaning out of any kind of book. __My Literacy Autobiography__ __By Emily Matthews__ When I was younger my older sister, mother, grandmother and aunts would read Dr. Suess books to me. They would read them so much I began to memorize the words. I loved books, especially Barney Clifford, and Arthur. In the second grade we would get a star for every book we read and I remember I had the most stars seven weeks in a row. As I aged the font got smaller, the words got bigger, and the books got thicker. I found books not as interesting as they used to be. I only read when when summer reading came along and found comprehension to be my weakest subject. Hopefully during my college experience I will begin to enjoy reading once again. __My Literacy Autobiography __ __By: Andrew Ray __ I have never been very fond of reading. Ever since i was a young boy I always got my mother to read my summer reading books to me. I would always go on spark notes and copy them down and use them as my notes. I remember when i was in middle school my mother would read the books to me and i would lay down behind the couch and fall asleep instead of taking notes. i'm not a big fan of reading but maybe this class will help me like to read. __"My Literacy Biography"__ __by: Amanda Lea Harwell__ I learned how to read when I was little by my mother reading Dr. Suess books over and over again. My grandmother read me classic British novels to me like 'Wuthering Heights', 'Pride and Prejudice'. I love Jane Austen, and Emily Bronte. Ever since I was little I've loved to read these books and I read them with my grandmother until she died. Ever since then I have devoted myself to ready anything and everything that I feel I should read. British Literature and Fantasy novels are some of my favorites.

When I was in high school, I discovered the The Twilight Saga and I first discovered the second book 'New Moon' and I sat down in the middle of the isle and read the entire book before I even realized that there was a first book 'Twilight'. I went the next day to my library and checked the book out. I finished it that night and devoted myself to the saga. I went to the midnight release for the last two books and even though the last book was not my favorite I still enjoyed reading it even though it took me longer. Read is a passion of mine. I have read Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' at least 5 times. More so with 'Pride and Prejudice' and other books. Anything that is about Fantasy, and Music is something that I enjoy to read and I am always looking for new books in consigment shops and thrift stores. __"My Literacy Biography"__ __ ﻿ ﻿ By: Colby Borden__ My experiance with reading began when i was very little. I started to read in the first grade, but was just an average student. I have never excelerated at reading, but i enjoy it, when i find something specifically realated toward my interest. I found when i was in late elementery school, i enjoyed westerns shows, and found myself face to face in a few cowboy novels. To this day im not a speed reader, I tend to enjoy a book, or novle more when i slow down and comprehend every detail possible. Today reading is not a great hobby for me and hope this class will change my ideas.

__By: Ashley Throop__
==== I began reading at a very early age. I started in pre-school when I was just 4 years old, reading the little soft cover books that had lots of pictures and a word per page. I actually loved reading when I was young. I remember going to the bookstore whenever they would have a children’s author there to read their book. I also would like for my mom to read Dr. Seuss books to me before going to bed. First grade was when they taught students how to read in my school system and I remember reading books called Frog and Toad. As I started to get older and get higher in the education program and was forced to read so many books a year I began to dislike reading. In middle school I was put in the Accelerated Reading class cause I had good scores on my reading test. But as the years went on I began to hate reading more and more. I now cannot stand to read at all! I hope this class changes this. ====

__"My Literacy Autobiography"__ __By: Shelby__ August 27, 2010

I do not actually remember learning how to read, but I do remember my mother saying that I came home from my first day of kindergarden and was very upset with her. Having finished my very first day of school and I still did not know how to read. This was the first of many dissapointments of reading. Forcing students to read constantly most likely does not help that the majority of students do not enjoy reading. And since we are forced to read books then they should be interesting books. The only thing I enjoy reading now is magazines. I hope to get inspiration from this class to want to read like I did my first day of school.

"My Literacy Autobiography" By: Franklin Pham August 28, 2010

I really don't like reading, but if i have to then i will. Reading isn't my strongest point but i want to improve on it. If i start to read then i will get easily distracted by the things that i am around and the people that i know or around with. that problem has always been a problem to me my entire educational career, i plan on improving it and make that problem less of a big problem then it already is. During high school, i wasn't much of a reader because i was really easily distracted. i am hoping that i'll have the inspiration from this class that it will help me improve my reading skills. My Literacy Autobiography Taylor Weaver

As a young student in elementary school i loved to read, write, and do math. I always participated in all sorts of reading programs growing up. Personally I believe that I enjoyed reading as much as I did because I was not forced to read and I read a lot of short books. I was an average reader reading at an average pace.

I attended Booker T. Washington middle school. There I was in the P.A.C.E. program and it was this program where I was forced for the first time to read many pages a night for homework. This is where i began to struggle for the first time because i was a lazy reader and just did not really want to read. One book that we focused on in middle school was __To Kill a Mockingbird__. This was my first novel that I ever read and i personally enjoyed it because I was able to watch the movie and compare the two.

I attended William Pickett Davidson High School here in Mobile. In honors programs, I had my first "wake-up call" because i was unprepared for the english courses because all we did was read and take daily quizes. I had to read about eight books my freshmen year, two books my sophomore year, five my junior, and two my senior year.

After my middle and high school years, I personally started not to like reading at all only because I was forced to read and after a while I lost the love for it. So now I would rather not read if I do not have to.

My Literacy autobiography By Keenan Connolly 8/30/10

I wish I could go back in time and get more into books but I can't sadly. My youth didn't consist of too much literature at all really. It was shouded with t.v., video games, friends that didn't read either. In the preschool days I read and listened to pretty much every preschool - first grade book imaginable because I lived in a home daycare center. Being force fed the same books for years drove me away from them and pushed me towards the tv because that played something different everytime, I though.

Until middle school, I stayed burnt out of reading and that was a shame, but in the 7th grade I bought my first book, "moby dick". I bought it for two reasons; 1: it was 4 bucks, and 2: my parents made me. It was a good but very long book and I didn't understand (or cared) what I was reading for a couple years. Another author I started to read in mid-middleschool was Edger Allen Poe. I loved his short stories and books because at the time it was nothing I have ever read or knew existed before. I still read and reread his stories till this day, and I have also read his autobiography before to find out why he wrote such off putting stories and if you read about him and his life you will soon realize why.

Because of my late start and lack of interest in most liturature, I still have a problem reading. I read what I like and that is hard to find most of the time because most popular titles out that are usually recommended are more or less just boring to read to me. shame.  "My Literacy Autobiography" <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bethany Lawyer <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I learned to read a young age. When I was about seven years old, I loved the Junie B.Jones books! My mom and I would always read them together, but I would usually just let her read to me because she was a fantastic story teller! I had a library card and would frequently go and check out books that looked interesting to me. For a few summers my library would have a contest for kids; the librarians would encourage kids to read a certain amount of books for the summer. My goal was about eight books and I remember getting so excited when they would give me a prize for reading! It was truly fun for me! Even though I enjoyed reading, I still had trouble comprehending what I was reading exactly and it was very hard for me to concentrate! I got very sick with Meningitis the summer after sixth grade. I just remember being so sick in the seventh grade with migranes every single day! I went to a Neurologist for my migranes and she perscribed me some medication that made it even harder for me concentrate on my school work, especially my reading class. I hated reading, I would have the page over and over agian to just understand what it was talking about! It got alot better when I stopped going to the Neurologist; gradually I began to have a better understanding of what I was reading. In highschool I still didn't like to read but I knew it was something I had to do. Hopefully, I'll learn to like it like I used to! I am excited to be in this class and learn! :) <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"My Literacy Autobiography" <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kayla DeWitt <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I really never liked to read unless the book that i read was action or suspense. I started to read them kind of books in high school when i had no choice but to read and that was in my English class which is one of my favorite subjects. I don't remeber when I learned how to read but it was at an early age. I do like to read if I get into the story and its interesting to me. I will read if I have to but other than that I pretty much don't like to read as often as I should. I have done some book reports in my high school career and I made a pretty decent grade on them. I actually do like doing book reports if I no how the teacher wants it. I hope I end up loving to read books like I used to. <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * My Literacy autobiography **


 * Dillon Montgomery **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">My Literacy Autobiography By: Sidney Warren Jackson, IV
 * When I was younger I learned to read and loved reading picture books. In elementary school I would read all of the time during school. I was always an outdoorsey type person and really into sports so reading always came in behind everything else. As time went on I grew out of reading and never really liked it since. In middle and highschool i would never read unless i had to. Not reading really hurt me in different classes that i might have really excelled in. I have always been able to read well and my vocabulary is good, it is just not enjoyable for me. In college you are required to read and write a great deal so i do what i must. Im hoping that after taking this class i will learn to enjoy reading a little more. ** <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

When I learned to read (was I seven or eighteen…) I felt a little bit like I did when I was getting my driver’s license at sixteen (now I remember, I was seven). Being able to read and comprehend words helped me in ways I couldn’t have imagined before. For example: I was known for busting up into the ladies room when I was a lad because of my illiteracy (or so I told them). After learning to read, not only was I able to differentiate between “Men” and “Women”, but I could read stories, gather information, and even begin to record some of my own thoughts. I read everything….the back of juice boxes, street signs, caller ID, Dr. Seuss, and of course subtitles. I wanted to read just to prove I could; it made me feel grown up.

I couldn’t help but notice, however, that even though I could read signs and nutrition facts and names on the caller ID, I still hadn’t crossed the bridge of reading a “chapter book” as I called them. So, on recommendation from my mother, I picked up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when I turned 10. So I began reading this book about an 11 year old boy who finds out he’s a wizard and fall head over heels for this series. The coolest thing about Harry Potter was that he aged with me. Rowling released a book approximately once a year (the second one being released when I was 12, third when I was 13 give or take a few months) meaning I was almost the exact same age as Harry my entire teenage existence. This, plus the fact it was a great story, is likely what appealed to me most about the series.

Unfortunately, you can’t write a book report on Harry Potter at the high school level so I was forced to closet my Harry Potter addiction and read things more appropriate for my reading level. My favorite book (that’s not HP of course) is 1984 by George Orwell. Others include The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski.

I’ve also read anything Dan Brown has ever written (Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, Da Vinci Code, Deception Point, and The Lost Symbol). Another good one was The Overton Window by Glenn Beck, although it may not fit into your genre. I read a lot of Clive Cussler, and John Grisham too.

That’s about it….looking forward to the class! My Literacy Autobiography by Nikki Reymundo

Reading is not my cup of tea. I dont know how I learned to read to be honest but i know it wasnt my favorits thing to do. I remember when i had to read a book over the summer then do a book report, i used to hate those. I would rarely read it i would just skim through and some how get by. There was one book i really enjoyed one summer in high school it was called "Fordge by Fire" that was probably the only book i read all the way through. However, as I get older i read more than I have ever did but not a whole lot. I started reading the twilight series but stopped at the third one, I just lost interest or maybe didnt want to read the fourth because i figured the fourth movie would come out before i would finish it. Other than that I read my Bible and at my church were doing a study on a book called " Crazy Love" that im starting to read. I think thats about it.