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Traveling to the Library with my Kindergarten class
A field trip to the local library in which I learned how to rent a book from the library and received a library card. -
5th grade teacher
I was placed in the lowest English class at my elementary school in 5th grade (That used to be how they generated class roosters there) and I only knew that because my teacher called my parents to ask why I was placed in that class because my reading scores did not match. My parents told me she said that I was good at reading and writing. I still, to this day, have never felt as confident as I did that day. -
Reading the Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
In the fourth grade, I picked up this book in the school library and told my (then) friends I would read it. I did. It introduced me to the joy of reading. -
First Time writing fiction
Two of my fifth grade friends and I would write our own separate stories and talk about them to each other, -
Fanfiction
A couple of my 6th grade friends and I became friends over our love of Percy Jackson and the Olympians bookseries. After that, we began a fanfiction group that showed me the world of online fandom. We were called The Aurum Writers on Fanfiction.net and Wattpad. -
Stopping Reading or Writing
In 7th and 8th grade, I barely read or wrote a single thing if it did not involve schoolwork. The fan-fiction group flopped because half of us were moved to a different school and I did not have the motivation anymore. -
7th Grade English Teacher
My 7th grade English teacher taught me how to write an essay. I found the process to be like a puzzle and from it, learned to love writing essays. That teacher taught me to love writing. -
9th grade English Class
This is the beginning of a class that made me get back into reading. For example, I read my first Emily Dickinson poem and now have read many more. I started writing more. It pushed me back into my groove. -
English 101
This is when I started English 121 at HCC. It was my first college course and my first time writing in a while. -
Poetry Writing
I bought myself a marble colored notebook. Now, that notebook is filled with little scribbles and poems that I cannot be more proud of.
