During my childhood, I had trouble with reading and writing. Whenever my teachers would ask me questions about the books we were reading in class, I found it difficult to answer because I found it hard to follow what was happening in the story. This led me to do poorly in my classes during elementary school. My parents decided to get me a tutor, so that I can learn how to read and write better. Having a tutor has helped me a lot in improving my vocabulary words by knowing how to pronounce, understand, and use words. Seeing myself gradually improving towards my reading and writing has given me much more confidence to do better towards my education. When I started middle school, I gained more interest in reading and writing. I started going to the library to get more books to read at home. After I was done reading the books, I would go over what I read with my dad. However, even with the tutoring I received, I still had a hard time writing about the books I read. I would always ask for help from my teachers whenever I was stuck for ideas, but still felt like I wasn’t learning much. Once, in fifth grade, we had to write about the book we were reading in class, but I had no idea what to write about so I left most of the paper blank. I was really upset because even with all the tutoring and extra help I was getting, I felt that I still wasn’t doing good enough. I felt like I was wasting not only my time, but other people’s time and money and I felt like I was disappointing the people around me.
Even though I was upset, I was determined to work harder. Going forward, I would always pay attention to my teachers and listen to them carefully so that I can answer their questions. Whenever I was confused or wasn’t following, I went up to my teachers after class and asked them for help. I realized that by asking for help on trying to understand the book, it made things easier. I also started to take notes during class, which helped me to remember things better and helped me to come up with a few ideas on what to write about when answering questions about the story.Because of this, I did better in high school than I did in middle school due to the extra work I put into better understanding my work and assignments. My junior year English teacher, Mr. James, was particularly helpful. Whenever he gave the class a reading or a writing assignment, he would guide us through the steps of researching and finding the answers to his questions. He also helped us outside of the class and would stay after school and meet with any student who had questions about the classwork. He would make all of us feel like we had the ability to do good work because he gave us multiple chances to give our best work. I loved his class because I knew I would get the help I needed. My English class with Mr. James had a lasting effect on me because of how well Idid in his class and how much I enjoyed his class. I started seeing improvement in English class, which made me feel really good considering I started off almost failing, to raising my grade to a B.In the end, with the help I was receiving from tutoring and my teachers, and the extra work I put into my assignments, I wound up acing his class, as well as my twelfth-grade English class. It made me feel really good to know that my hard work was worth it and paid off. I didn’t feel like I was wasting my time or other people’s time anymore.
Reflection:
The process of drafting this literacy narrative was difficult for me because it was hard to decide which moment to talk about. As I talked about in my essay, I struggled with English classes in the past, so there were a few moments I could have talked about. When I talked about my assignment to my cousin, she explained to me that I have to talk about a moment that changed or expanded upon my outlook on literacy. This helped me pick out two moments that I wanted to talk about: the time I left a question blank on a test and my time with my junior year English Teacher.It was much easier to draft the narrative once I chose these moments because they had a big impaction me. I just wrote how I felt at the time and how I went about these situations. I am not finished with my final draft of the literacy narrative yet, but I look forward to hearing feedback and seeing how I can improve my writing. I would like to know if there’s anything else I should include in my narrative or if there is anything I can work on. It will be difficult to write up the final draft, but it will be better with the help of my professor, peers, tutors, and the writing center.
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