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__.__Assignment One "My Literacy Autobiography" Please include your name in your post. After posting, don't forget to click save or your post will be lost! Be creative! ** We're experiencing problems with stories being deleted. I have restored a few of those so if the font in your posting differs from the original post that is the reason and you may edit. For new posts, please scroll down (with arrow key) below the last posting to begin a new story. Be careful not to delete the work of others! By the way, enjoy reading the stories! ** **Remember that the only way to delete is if you're in the EDIT mode.** __My Literacy Biography by William Thomas__ I started to read for the first time when i was in kindergarten. I enjoyed reading at this time because the books were filled with pictures. I loved it when books were this way because if you couldn't read a sentence you could look at the pictures and it would give you a hint of what the book sentence was saying. When I got to elementary we were no longer reading books with pictures. It turned into just pages with words and I began to lose interest in reading because it bored me. I could not just sit there and read because I would get off track and go do something else. When I got to highschool I told myself that I would have to become a great reader to maintain my good grades and stay on track. I did not do this because I was focused on girls and how I looked to others. When I advanced past ninth grade iI began reading more and I have been a great reader ever since then. Now I love to read anything that is posted, because I read with understanding know.

"__My Literacy Autobiography" by: Amanda Warner__ I was five years old when I started kindergarten. I ended up repeating kindergarten the next school year because I was such a slow learner. I remember trying to learn words and read small books both years while I was in kindergarten. Although all I ever did was memorize certain words. When I reached the first grade I was first tested for a learning disability. My test scores came back positive for a learning disability in both reading and math. I remember everyday of my first grade year a reading teacher, Mrs.Hairston would take me out of my regular classroom into a separate room to help me one on one to progress my reading ability. My parents read with me everyday after school as well. Flash cards with words and definitions on them were a great help for me when I was learning to read.

__**My Literacy Autobiography by Courtney Stokes**__

At one point, there was a time when I didn’t dislike to read. I can remember at time when I used to love to read. I could read for hours in a day. However, now, you wouldn’t see me reading a sign unless it had some importance or I wanted to.

I remember being in elementary and we had this program call D.E.A.R.(Drop Everything and Read). We would have to stop whatever it was we were doing at the time and pick up a book, any book. I would always read my favorite books Dr. Suess’s Green Eggs and Ham and Sam I Am. I could tell you page for page what the story was about.

I don’t completely hate reading. In order for me to fully enjoy reading, the book has to be something of my interest. Like, I love sports. If a book was about a famous professional athlete. I would really enjoy reading that book.

Readingisn’t all that bad to me. I believe I can recapture my love for reading if given the right motivation and I put forth a great attitude I can and will do it. I also believe if I stepped out of the box of reading only books on sports and tried something else, maybe I would find a new interest.

__**My Literacy Autobiography by Daniel Robbins**__

When I learned how to read, my family and I lived in Auburn. I can even remember the feeling I had when I walked into my first grade classroom for the first time. my worries about elementary school had ended rather immediately, and I was filled with joy. Part of this was because I had the nicest teacher. Her name was Ms. Dyer.

Ms. Dyer had taught me to read fluently and I loved doing it all through grade school. It was not long after I had started middle school that I lost that joy. Perhaps it was because I was forced to read. Or maybe my love for music had simply won over most of my attention. Either way, the number of books I read thereafter gradually diminished.

My feelings about reading in high school did not vary much. The only change was that I enjoyed reading less than I had priorly. I read my summer reading books, usually not completely, and I took the test on them. Not many more words were read beyond that of my textbooks.

My goal today is to reinstate that joy I once had of reading books. It will make me a more influential and articulate person. And I may just succeed if I try.

Going back to my kindergarten year, I really didn’t have a thing for reading. Sometimes the things we hate are the things we don’t understand. Reading was one of these things that I didn’t understand, and I would constantly drift in and out of the conversation when the teacher would read aloud from the book chosen by the majority of the children. This was all and well, because the reading was done by the teacher. But all things must come to an end; we were to be graded for a reading assignment. We were to select a book from the bookshelf and read it in front of the class. The teacher ordered us in the usual spot, all sitting in an arch around the center chair. I was shocked by this turn of events, one by one I watched my fellow classmates rise and take a book off the shelf and sit in that accursed chair. I despised that chair, set in the center, surrounded by other people. We listened to our classmate’s voice, as they read aloud with brief pauses between words. As soon as the book was closed, the teacher praised the little boy. The little boy hopped off the seat and placed the book in its proper place amongst the other books on the shelf, with this done he quickly took his seat near the other students. The teacher looked at the attendance list; this signaled that another was to be chosen to read to his/her fellow peers. To me, in a metaphorical sense, that chair was the electric chair, the list was full of fresh meat and the teacher was itching to throw us in it. I hoped that she would hold her tongue when it came to my name. I prayed for it, but alas, my name was called from the lips of that harpy. My mind began to be grasped by the hands of stress, my hands filled with anguish and my legs felt heavy. The teacher called my name again; my eyes darted to meet hers, “U-Umm yes Ma’am!” my voice was filled with regret. I quickly shot up to my feet, my body still heavy from the stress. I walked slowly to the bookshelf and grabbed a book, I turned to face the chair, my throat was dry and my hands began to shake from the image of getting laughed at from my classmates. My teacher called my name once again; my hand tightly grasped the book. I walked toward the chair with my head held down, wishing I wasn’t here, hoping that this was all just a dream. About five steps and the chair came into my sight, my eyes glanced at it. My hate for this chair was clear from my intense stare, but what I really hated was my inability to read. This chair was the stage at which everyone could see it, everyone could witness it and that made me feel like my inability to read, hindered me from being like everyone else. I sat down in the chair, my eyes still facing the floor, not wanting to see the eyes that were all faced towards me. My hands felt the cover of the book, slowly opening it to reveal the pages with the words written in clear text. My eyes fixated upon the book, trying to make out certain words, my teacher was losing her patience. Again she called my name and asked me if I could begin reading. My hands gripped the edges of the book tightly and I began reading from the page, my brief pauses between words and mispronunciations drew a clear picture of my inability. After about five or six minutes, my teacher told me to stop. I closed the book and held my head in shame, I was signaled to place the book on the shelf and take my seat. I walked to my seat, ashamed of myself. The teacher called a couple more names before the school bell declared it was time to leave. We gathered our things and packed out book bags, I headed for the door but was called by the teacher to stay after class. My poor reading skills were recognized; she offered to teach me after-school hours. From then on I took her after-school teaching lessons, and each day my reading skill improved. A month went by and again my teacher held a reading-test. Let’s just say my score improved dramatically, all thanks to my teacher’s encouragement and teaching. We all have something we aren’t good at, the more you work at it, the better you become. I guess that’s the moral of this autobiography and life experience. Before you decide to give up on something, make sure you exhaust all your options first. You might be surprised how easy something is if you take a different approach.
 * __ My Literacy Autobiography by Timothy J. Conn __**

__**My Literacy Autobiography by: Taylor Parker**__

I can't really remember the first book that was ever read to me, but i can remember the first instructional book that was given to me in an odd enough way. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher would read at least three books every day, they were all boring to me. Don't get me wrong I liked the __Curious George__ show and book, but the way she read it, it didn't really interest me. So I went home and told my grandmother that I had to start reading for school, but none of the books that I could read were exciting enough to me. So, like an awesome grandmother, she took me to Wal-Mart. She went to the book section and picked out a book and I asked, "What did you get?" Her reply was, "It's a surprise!" We checked out and went home, she said, "Untie your shoes then take them off," I did just that and expected my new book, but before she gave it to me she said, "Ok now put them back on and tie them back, double knot this time!" I had no clue how to do that, but thinking that if I couldn't do that then I wouldn't get my new book so I tried extra hard, but I had no success. With a very pitiful an defeated look on my face I said, "Nana I can't do it." She just smiled, I didn't know why she thought that that was so funny, but to my surprise she handed me my first book ever and it was a how to tie your shoe book with its own laces. Now I can tie the infamous double knot.

__My Literacy Biography by Chuck Culpepper__
My first experiences with reading was in Kindergarten, when our teacher would read us story books. From I could remember, I always enjoyed story time. I first started learning how to read around the first grade, and I struggled with it. I remember my mother getting frustrated whenever she helped me out with reading homework. Once I got reading down for the most part, I did read, but I was slow at reading. I remember sometimes there would be a paragraph that I would have to read over and over again to understand it. I did enjoy reading, but because I read slow, I just was not really motivated to read on my free time. Everytime I started a book, I would never finish it. The only time I finished a book is when I had to do to do it for school. I remember in highschool, it was the same way. I would say to myself that I want to read that book, but I would never get around to it or never finish it or prefer to see the movie instead. In highschool, I enjoyed the reading assignments, even though it may have taken me awhile to finish reading the book and finish the assignment. Ever since then, it has always been that way, but hopefully this class will change that.

__**My Literacy Autobiography: by Jaymin Rau**__ I can remember being forced to write my name when I was 4 or 5-years-old. My mom made me write it as neat as possible, making me start over if I messed up even the slightest. Not a very fond memory, but that's what I remember about starting to write for the first time. Now that I think about it, the learning to write and read prosess was very revolting to me at that age. Once I was in the first grade writing was no problem for me; reading, not so much. I could do it without much trouble, it was just tedious. Now that I think back on it, it might have been due to the fact I didn't care too much about the material I was being forced to read. Whatever the reason it didn't stop my mom from pushing it on me. During summer break she would sign me up at the library for some type of event where you would read a certain number of books over the summer, if you did it you got some carry-on bag. I must have done that for at least 4 summers and I hated it. I think it actually made not like reading books and might be the reason why I rarely do it now a days. But recently I have gained a small interest in trying to pick up the habit of reading books regularly. I don't know I wanna do to make myself seem smart, attract book worm girls, or just to pick up a __good__ habit. Maybe this class, along with American Lit II, will be what gets me started.

__**My Literacy Autobiography John Nguyen**__ Reading was not my significant thing to do in my free time back when I was a kid, I use to think that reading was just a waste of time, then all the teachers in elementary school bribed me to pick up one book and read just one page. Ever since then I was hooked and started to read more and more. My first book I read was "Clifford the Big Red Dog" it was the most enjoyable book i ever read, after reading this book I moved up to more adventurous topics.During my high school year reading was beginning to fade away because all the work i have in high school took most of my attention, and i did not have enough time to sit down and open a book. In my free time I would like to take a break, sit down and continue my adventure again with a book. __MY LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHY ____BY:NYEETI WALLS __I learn how to read around the age of five or six. I think I was in kindergarten. Reading was okay then because the teacher would read to you and do funny voices to go with the story. They had lots of pictures for you to look at. I really can’t remember what the first book I have ever read was. Things began to change as I reach higher levels of education. I did not like to read at all. When my teacher would say let’s take out our textbooks to a certain page, I would take my time doing it. The reason why is because I know she is about to read one of them stories and we would all be taking turns reading. Once you have read your portion she then ask you questions about it to see if you understand what was going on. When she called on me to read I would pass every time. I thought I would stumble through the paragraphs and all my classmates would laugh and talk about me. When I got into about the ninth grade I started to read. I only started because my teacher requires us to pick out books and give a summary on them on a due date. I remember it was a book called “Someone to love me”. It was a lot of series and I read almost everyone. That was the last time I can really say I enjoy reading. Until this day I do not like reading. I would not pick up a book unless that teacher demands or require me to do so. But hopefully it would change one day.

"My Literacy Autobiography" by Dava Hudson I first encountered reading was when I was just a baby. My mother would read the Little Golden Books to me and my two brothers. I could not possibly recount every Golden Book that I owned, but I do know that my favorites were ‘Pinnochio’ and ‘The Little Mermaid.’ Throughout elementary school, I mostly enjoyed reading the Nancy Drew Mystery books and the Boxcar Children. I was also OBSESSED with the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. After I finished reading one of the Little House on the Prairie books, I would practically beg my mother to take me to Books-A-Million to buy the next book in the series.

One of my most fondest memories of reading in elementary school would have to be when I was in fifth grade. Twenty minutes before school dismissed, my teacher would sit at the front of the class and read to the students. One book that she read, ‘Goblins in the Castle,’ has to be one of my all-time favorite books. It had just the right mixture of fantasy, adventure, and humor to keep the me interested. This is when I developed a whole new appreciation for the fantasy genre. Other fantasy type books that I enjoyed during this period were the Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia books.

During high school, I enjoyed reading the Jane Austen books, preferably ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Most of the books I had to read in high school were required reading, but I did not mind for the most part because I actually enjoyed reading most of them.‘The Scarlett Letter’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ were interesting reads. One book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Even though some might find it controversial, I feel that it delivers such a strong message to its readers.

I have been at South for three semesters now, and it is quite difficult to find the time to read. The school work can be a bit overbearing at times, but maybe reading a book would do me good to escape the real stresses of life....at least for a short while.

__My Literacy Autobiography__ by Kou Yang
====I started learning how to read when I was five years old. I remember 3rd graders use to come into my classroom and teach me and my classmates how to read. I was born not knowing English so it was pretty hard for me to comprehend other students. I remember the first book I read was "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss. Ever since then, I have been reading most of Dr.Seuss books like "Cat in the Hat". I was not really into books until I was in 6th grade. I was a big fan of adventure books back then. I use to put myself in the main character's shoe and let my imagination take over. After reading books for three years, I lost interest in reading. It got boring for me because it took too much of my free time with my friends.====

__My Literacy Autobiography__ by Matthew Allen ====I would say that my experience with reading has been relatively good. I have been reading since about kindergarden. I started off with picture books, with big words and short sentences. My reading level increased with age. Every summer of grade school we were assigned a book to write a book report on. We would be given a book that was in our reading level. When summer was up we would have to take a test on the book that was assgined. I feel those book reports helped my__My Literacy Biography by William Thomas__ I read my first book in kindergarten as a whole class. I enjoyed it a little then because it was pictures on every other page of the book. I loved to read the books with pictures because there were more pictures in the book then words. I was always a good reader in kindergarten because you could just look at the pictures and they would give you a hint of what the sentence was saying. When I left elementary school and moved on to middle school my enthusiasm to read started to fad==== ====My current major choice is Business. I feel that this class is important to my succes in my field choice. I will be working with alot of people. I need to have sharp lieracy skills. I am going to have a open mind to this class. I don't really enjoy reading but i am going to give this class my best shot. I hpoe that I do really well in this course. I feel that I am a pretty good reader. I hope this class will reveal a new desire to read more. I also hope my enjoyment of reading will grow as well.==== e away. I could never stay focused long enough to read and enjoy the book. When I had to read a couple of chapters for homework I would just skim over the chapters and see if i could get a understanding of the book. When I moved to highschool I knew that I would have to break my bad habit and start to become a great reader. My ninth grade year I didn't break my habit, I was more worried about the girls and how I looked that I barely did homework. My last three years of highschool I started to read books all the way threw and I realized that they were good you just had to read with understanding. I started to read all the time and I would anticipate what would happen next and that ====__My Literacy Biography by William Thomas__ I read my first book in kindergarten as a whole class. I enjoyed it a little then because it was pictures on every other page of the book. I loved to read the books with pictures because there were more pictures in the book then words. I was always a good reader in kindergarten because you could just look at the pictures and they would give you a hint of what the sentence was saying. When I left elementary school and moved on to middle school my enthusiasm to read started to fade away. I could never stay focused long enough to read and enjoy the book. When I had to read a couple of chapters for homework I would just skim over the chapters and see if i could get a understanding of the book. When I moved to highschool I knew that I would have to break my bad habit and start to become a great reader. My ninth grade year I didn't break my habit, I was more worried about the girls and how I looked that I barely did homework. My last three years of highschool I started to read books all the way threw and I realized that they were good you just had to read with understanding. I started to read all the time and I would anticipate what would happen next and that would push me to keep on reading. Now I am a big fan of reading and I enjoy doing it on my spare time. I enjoy reading magazines, books, newspaper articles, and articles that are posted on the internet. t would push me to keep on reading. Now I am a big fan of reading and I enjoy doing it on my spare time. I enjoy reading magazines, books, newspaper articles, and articles that are posted on the internet. reading skills improve. I have done my share of reading in school, but i would not say its my favorite thing.I find it hard most times to find a book that keeps me interested. I wish i could enjoy reading more. Although my indiffrence to reading I did recently read a book I liked a lot. It was //The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.// I wrote my senior year research paper on this book. The book was very interesting. I liked the style of writing and the unpredictability the author wrote with.====

// My Literacy Autobiography //// By Damain Johnson, August 31, 2010 //
** “ **** O **** nce upon a time…….In a land **** far far far away,” All the books I read would start off like this; I can’t recall a book that didn’t start off like that, that I wasn’t reading. I remember when I first started reading I was so excited. I’d come home each night and read something to my mom or she would read something to me. ** ** I know I must have had every Mickey Mouse books and Barney books. My favorite books were the Captain Underpants series. I think I stopped reading around the summer of 8th or 9th grade and that summer I read a book called //__Go Ask Alice__// and that book was about a girl that was a teenager that was a runaway that was experimenting with drugs and sex, it was a great book and I wouldn’t mind reading it again. The last book I read was //__Lord of the Flies__// and that was because in my English class last year we read it together as a class. That book was alright, I didn’t like it as much as some of my peers. ** ** I have been in reading classes ever since I can remember, my senior year second semester of high school was that only time I wasn’t in a reading class, and I think the only reason I got out of that class was because I applied myself in all of my other reading classes before that I would listen to my iPod or whatever I had, draw, oh and my favorite one play computer games. I remember 9th grade someone installed Halo: Combat Evolution on 16 computers and every class had 8 computers and these computers were only in two classes and I was in one of them, so may class would play against a different class. That was probably my favorite reading class. **

**My** Literacy Autobiography By Kiet Trinh, September 14, 2010
"I am Joe's smirking revenge", My favorite qoute from any book I have ever read. To start off with I have never been into reading. It still takes me months to finish books. Although I still recall the first book I was ever interested in and the other book I have actually read.

In the 7th grade we started reading __The Outsiders__. Of course at first I was not interested. Slowly it started to build up and I became interested in it. The way it closely resembles life as a teen and I could relate to some of the characters.

In the 11th grade I bought __Scar Tissue__. It was a book about Anthony Kiedis, the vocalist of Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was such an experience reading about this book. I could relate to his life and It was just a journey to read. I would recommend this book to anyone out there but I must warn that it is very explicit.

This summer I read __Fight Club__. I watched Fight Club years back when i was in the 7th grade. I used to talk about it but no one ever knew it to I let a great number of friends watch it and they loved it. With that said the book and the movie are different. The book is more rich with detail. It was a wonderful book and yet again I could relate to the narrarator. Sometimes you need a kick to wake back up to reality. This is also the book that my qoute came from.

As of this moment I am reading __The Hunger Games__. Usually I would have never read a book like this but my girlfriend told me it is amazing. I haven't gotten far into it but it has been a decent story.

I know, I know, its terrible that the top 3 are the only books that I actually finished. I am just not a guy who is interested in books because I become bored with things to easily. I start to read something and lose complete interest and quit. I buy a game play it for 30 minutes and stop. I even listen to music but only listen halfway through a song and skip because I just cannot listen or read or play something without being bored. The only thing I can do to the end is watch movies. Its one of my favorite past time. I can watch movies all day and not be bored. Trust me I know alot of movies and very good with movies. I do critisize them as I do books and games and music but movies never seem to bore me. Ok, Ok, I'm getting off subject. Reading just isnt my cup of coffee although I do not mind it.