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My Literacy Timeline
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The Very Hungry Catepillar
This was one the first books I read. It was simplistic in design and I could comprehend the story from the pictures. It helped introduce me to reading. -
Clifford
Fiction was common in the early books I read. A world where there was no limits and a dog could be as big as possible helped clarify what fictional reading was. -
Where the wild things go
Wild imagination made me wonder what books were to come and how it could be conceptualized in a farawya land of dancing. -
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss taught me "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -
Captain Underpants
A book that you could flip and move that had comedy was crazy to me. It was goofy, but comedy became something I love and is one of my favorite genres/ -
The Berenstein Bears
This is just one of the many introductory books that implemented more diverse language for me to comprehend. -
The Lightning theif
This was the start of how amazing fiction books could be. The world of The Lightning Thief had heroes my age coming together and defeating mythological creatures. -
Goosebumps (Choose your own adventure)
Goosebumps always intreiged me. Horror was a new concept to me and the Goosebumps stories were like nothing I read before. Especially the choose your own adventure stories because it made me the protagonist as if I was in the book. -
The Sea of Monsters
The Sea of Monsters is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. A good story was something new to me in literature that I enjoyed and I wanted to read more than ever. -
The Titans Curse
Mythological stories became my favorite genre of book with The Titans Curse. The Titan's Curse is a 2007 fantasy-adventure novel and featured a group of friends journey's to overcome the Titan's curse. -
Calvin and Hobbes (All Childhood)
I know we are watched a film about this hilarious comic, but it was a hige part of my childhood and whenevr I needed something to read Calvin gave me a good laugh. Combining comedy and literature in a strip was amazing. I connected to the characters and it I read every strip and own every collection. -
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Mystery and puzzle led me to wonder what I would do in the situations of the protagonist and got me thinking of new and different ways to handle certain situations. -
The Last Olympian
One of the final greek mythology books I read. It made reading more than just a school acitvity. -
The Hunger Games
Katniss shhowed me the ruthelessness of survival of the fittest. She has little to rely on, other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love -
The Kane Chronicles
Egyptian mythology tied together what I already knew about Greek Mythology and brought a new culture and scneario to deal with. -
Edgar Allen Poe
Symbolism and metaphors were introduced to me. Poe showed a deeper level of meaning and opened books up to interpretations. -
Romeo and Juliet
The world od Shakespeare was ddep and symbolism lurked in the old english stories he created. The romance and tragedy genre was new to me aswell. -
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men defined what it means to be human. Steinbeck's story of George and Lennie's ambition of owning their own ranch, and the obstacles that stand in the way of that ambition, reveal the nature of dreams, dignity, loneliness, and sacrifice. -
The Great Gatsby
A book based on another time, a revolution taught me about perspective and I enjoyed the era of class. -
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Friendhsip and protection was found in unusual places, while the two journey along the Mississippi on their raft. Inner struggle and the difference between right and wrong was developed while reading this.
