Literacy

The lightning thief movie

2011

I remember watching this movie back when I lived in a small cramped apartment with one bedroom in Wallingford. The scene I remember most is Percy fighting with Annabeth and discovering he was the son of Poseidon.

ELL class

2013

I remember I would get brought out into a different class to learn English. The teacher asked me what Q looks like. I said the line coming out the O looks like a mermaid tail.

Flat stanley

2016

I picked this book up during reading time. I read it but I didn't get the book in the right order so I had no idea why Flat Stanley was flat.

First vivid read out book

2016

A bad case of stripes was the first book I remember a teacher reading out to me. The girl just kept getting colorful stripes and bizarre scenarios just kept happening.

Discovering a novel

2017

My house had the book, "The Blood of Olympus" I brought it to school and started reading it. My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Velleca told me it was a big book and that I was reading it out of order.

Redoing test

2018

My teacher Mrs. Hansen had different level tests and had me at the highest. I misread the directions and got a lot wrong so she told me to come up and redo it. I got it wrong the second time because I didn't do what she asked but I knew the right questions. The third time I got it right.

Reading Percy Jackson

2018

I got back into reading in 6th grade. I started with reading the original series Percy Jackson worked my way back up to the novel series Heroes of Olympus and I enjoyed the books fantasy about myths, gods, demigods, etc. One scene I particularly remember is the House of Hades where Percy and Annabeth are getting out of a hellish landscape together.

Spelling bee

2018

I got into the spelling bee in 6th grade. The teacher lined us up and then would ask us to spell words. I got in it and I remember being in front of everyone in the auditorium and the principal saying to be nice because you had to be brave to be up there.