My Literacy Development

Major Assignment 1 Rough Draft My literacy development has developed a lot over time and one of the reasons that it has developed is my grandma, she basically taught me everything that I know. I was always with my grandma she was kind of tough when it comes to education and learning, but I was never really a school loving kid I guess you can say I hated it. My grandma was the smartest person in the world to me she would always let me know when my grammar was wrong or when I didn't know to pronounce a word she helped. My grandma wasn't a strict person at all she just wanted all her grandkids to have good posture and great grammar so no one could ever say that we don't know how to speak or talk. Throughout Vollowe's article she repeatedly
says how being around all the Catholics made her question herself which was me most of the time when my grandma told me something new about grammar. I constantly questioned myself, asking myself if it's worth it or maybe even if it's necessary. My grandma also helped with my improve my literacy development when I had to give a presentation in front of my fifth grade class, which was super nerve racking at that. I never liked the idea of standing up in front of a lot of people and speak its super scary to me, I guess you can say I'm the shy type. The reason this specific event helped my literacy development is because throughout that presentation I would think about all the things my grandma taught me and it just kept on running through my mind. I also had gotten a lot of feedback from my classmates and my teacher that really helped me in the long run. This is also connecting in a way with Barry because she had gotten a lot of positive feedback through her graphic design stage and it helped her to be able to write that article. Throughout my elementary school days I had this dream of becoming a poet I loved to write but I wasn't really good at it. After my fifth grade presentation my teacher started helping me more and more with my writing and I can't thank her enough for it cause now my writing is better than ever.
One thing that I can honestly say is that without my grandma and this event is that I would not be the writer and poet I am today without them. Honestly, I hated every moment of it but now that I look back on it I am glad that these things and people happened to me or is in my life. All I could remember on my journey to literacy was my concern for all my sisters and their ability to read and write. That really motivated me to become literate. I remember my first day of school, I cried so hard when my mom dropped me off. After some time passed by I soon began to grow out of my baby stage and school became really interesting. Even though it was not as hard as it is now, the value that pushed me to be literate was how my grandma was able to discipline us if we didn’t give our best in our school and in our education.
My young mind was fresh and full of knowledge and when I began conversating with people, I sounded a lot more literate and professional as if I was a professional speaker. In school it was a little different to me it seemed to be more of a challenge. Then, I began to learn how to write essays. Unfortunately, that is also when I found out that I was not really good at writing. I was always a sports type of person because as child it was always cool to know all about sports and so on. I was able to answer any question in a blink of an eye when it came to sports. It was common sense to me. I was absolutely horrible at grammar, but wonderful in everything else you can say. I remember being yelled at by my grandma for my grammatical errors, every mistake that I made when it came to writing came with a punishment. I didn’t like that; so instead of focusing on writing, I focused on my passion for sports.
That changed really quick when I made my way into adulthood. At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting situation that involves my attitude toward writing and a little bit of reading; more toward writing. This includes everything even down to the basic posts on Twitter expressing someones opinion on something. Deep down I still love to write but I barely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very interested in or have a passion for.
Sadly, I’m not the same person that I used to be.
You could probably say it’s part of growing up. It never really was not my intention but that just the way things ended up. On the other hand my attitude toward writing are very different. First, deep down I truly do not like to write. I don’t personally like to write for leisure or pleasure like I used to but I write because I believe it is one of the most important aspects of being able to communicate with those around you, personally and professionally. To say differently my attitude towards writing is that I write because I need to write and survive in the world around me. I write because I have to, not because I want to hope this makes some
sense.
For example, when I get a writing assignment or I am writing because I have to. I find myself not enjoying the process . The perfect example of this would be my junior year in high school when I was enrolled in AP english . I was stressed most of the class because there was so much writing involved in the entire course and I was constantly writing just to get a grade. Being forced to write in such high standard every week for an entire school year was not enjoyable for me and as a result the grades weren’t always good.
Throughout life, everyone will face challenges one way or another it doesn’t matter who you are.
Some challenges may be more difficult than others and they might require one to do something they have never done before, step out of their comfort zone a little bit but it is never impossible. Literacy is one of the most controversial issues that is talked about throughout the world. Literacy is having the capability to read and write, and being able to put those abilities to great use. Literacy is the first step into getting an education, without literacy anything else that someone wants to learn is almost impossible. Literacy is important in everyone’s life whether they see it or not. Everyone will be using literacy one way or another which is why it is important to learn how to read and write the correct
way.
Literacy is used throughout everyday of our lives whether we realize it or not because it is something that everyone uses but we don’t always see, well at least I don’t. Literacy is one of the keys to success, without literacy there are no possibilities of one getting a far in education and succeeding in life because literacy is always used. It is important that literacy gets incorporated one way or another into our life because literacy levels are heavily dropping and that will cause many problems. A lot of people don’t see the importance of literacy and they don’t see the benefits.