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Early Days
Getting read to at birth -
Starting Preschool
I started when I was just 3 years old so I started to learn how to read early -
1st
In 1st grade I learned how to start forming paragraphs we were having spelling tests -
2nd and 3rd Grade
In these grades we started to learn how to write in cursive and read books like Junie B. Jones and Magic Treehouse -
4th and 5th Grade
We started to read non fiction books and move on to higher level chapter books -
Holes
I remember reading holes in 6th grade and I did not understand why we were reading it in a keyboarding class which is like a typing class. I hated that book but I had to read it because we had to write about it and do a final project about it. -
8th grade
This was the year that the hunger games came out and it was one of the first science fiction book that I read and actually liked. It was also one of the first books that was assigned in class that I actually read. And we read Copper Sun -
9th Grade
This year we started to have Socratic seminars and writing speeches. We read a book called Speak -
10th Grade
Joy Luck Club and Vocabulary Quizzes. The Joy Luck Club was my favorite book that I read that whole school year. And also that year my teacher gave us words that would be on the SAT and he quizzed us on those words -
11th grade
The things they carried was basically about men that went to war and the things that the experienced and what they took away from it -
12th Grade
We started with reading the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor and after that reading that it changed the way I read books and I started to focus on the symbolism in stories that I read -
Now
My writing and reading is stronger and I can see symbolism in the books that I read and I understand what I'm reading while I'm reading instead of going back.
