The First Sentence (Literacy Narrative)

I never wanted to read. In fact, if it had been my decision as a toddler, I would have stayed mute and illiterate my entire life. Reading was not something that came naturally to me. I definitely wasn’t a prodigy. If anything, I was late in a race that nobody ever told me about. The…

A New Perspective on Writing

It was the morning before the class I despised at 7:30 am. I drove up the block dreading going to my first class. This class I dreaded was a class titled “World Language and Culture” and it was necessary for me to take in order to graduate in the spring. I pulled up to the…

Persevere Through Struggle

My moment of literacy certainly came from the time spent in my American Dream Honors course during my Sophomore year of high…

The Benefits of Childhood Enrichment

Sitting in my second grade classroom, eight year-old me was prepared only for the basic lesson planned for that day. Writing, math, reading — I cannot remember.

What I can remember, however, is the short lady in a green dress that entered…

How My Love of English Survived Even Catholic School Nuns

Jeremy’s Literacy Narrative

Growing up reading wasn’t really my thing. If I’m being honest at some points I hated reading because it bored me and every time I started I just wanted to be done. Though I had such a strong dislike for reading I wasn’t necessarily bad at it. In fact, when I first started to…

Greenville, Mississippi

The high school I attended was rather small. I had about 45 students in my graduating class. There were around 200 students enrolled, including middle school. The academic wing consisted of a first and second floor, although the first half of the upper floor was designated for middle school and the…

The Moment That Made Reading Enjoyable

Before this moment reading was a chore to me. You could not get me to read unless it was completely necessary. Throughout my childhood like most children I was read to, but when it came to reading on my own it seemed so boring and unnecessary. My mom has always…

My Classroom

Alexis Watson

I loved school before I entered kindergarten. Preschool was easy; I had friends in class, naptime, dress up costumes, and best of all, we had story time. I raced to the far left of the carpet whenever my teacher read to us; that way, I’d be the first student to see…

My Literacy Narrative

The story of how 7th Grade me went from being careless, to confident in all aspects of school, especially English class.

As my 7th Grade school year began to progress into the late spring and early summer months, classes became increasingly easier and far more laid…