Personal Narrative: A Passion For Literacy

A Passion for Literacy Literacy, the ability to read and write is very important. Strong literacy skills come into place when one may want to apply for a job. How will one be able to fill out the application? Since I was a little girl I have always adored reading. My parents loved reading also and they read every day. Whether it was a newspaper, book, or magazine they always had something up to their faces. They purchased a lot of books for me and would have me to read one a week. This helped strengthen my comprehension skills and also my ability to write. Because of reading so well, I now love to write. When I was in second grade my teacher, Mrs. Ross, set a specific time for us to read every day. It was called “DEAR”. This meant that we had to Drop Everything and Read. After we ready our book we had to write a short summary of the story. I enjoyed Dear time, it was my favorite part of the class. She had two goals set for us that year. Her first goal was for us to past the second grade exit exam with a Mastery or Advanced. Her second goal was for us to walk out of second grade reading on a fourth grade level. By the time the second semester came I had already reached her goal. This meant that I was …show more content…
The first book I read in high school was “Romeo and Juliet” in the ninth grade. My teacher had us to write our own story about a romance that had a tragic ending. My story had a little twist to it. It was about this girl who was deeply in love with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend loved her like no other. One night he went to a party and got really drunk. A girl that liked him took advantage of him and seduced him, and she ended up getting pregnant. To make the long story short his girlfriend told her friends about it and one of his girlfriend’s friends ended up killing the pregnant girl. The sad part about it was that the girlfriend was wrongfully