My Reading Experience Essay

or she learns from the experience and moves forward. In my experience of advancing, I believe that I grew as a writer due to the writing lessons and the writing assignments in English 1101. One of the first things I learned in English 1101 is the rhetorical reading response and its structure. The rhetorical reading response requires rhetorical reading, a special type of reading that puts

While reading Developing Adolescents: A reference for Professionals, I couldn’t help but think about the girls at my intern site. I feel like I understand them a lot better after this reading. Their at the stage of their lives where things are constantly changing, their still trying to understand themselves and their ideas. So it should be expected that it’s going to take time for some of the girls to warm up to me and actually trust me enough to be free and open around me as much as I see that they

believe that since I am white there are things I can do that someone who is a different race either can not do or would be looked down on for doing. After reading McIntosh’s article on white privilege it really confirmed what I already believed. I spent the last year and a half working for the YMCA in Indianapolis. This experience really opened my eyes to white privilege. During the summer I worked as a camp counselor for the YMCA in Lawrence. The majority of children were African American, or mixed

After experiencing English 408, I am confident in my ideologies as a future educator and am excited about utilizing them in future secondary English Language Arts classrooms. At the beginning of this course, I came to the realization that there are often times a cookie cutter model teacher that administrators often look for. Even the College of Education at Michigan State has an idea of what types of teachers they want to produce, not to say that it is a bad thing, simply a philosophy on teaching

enormous significance with them. Even if a person doesn’t enjoy reading or writing, they can not deny that fact. I bring this up because reading and writing has shaped me into the person I am today. So it is no surprise that I am willing to rant about how great reading and writing can be. My first experiences with the reading started long before I could even process complex thought. Before I was even born, my mother was an advocate for reading to me when I was in her womb. "I know you can't understand

How do I . . . Write a Reflection? Why reflective writing? Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your thinking and your acceptance of new ideas. Professors often ask students to write reading reflections. They do this to encourage you to explore your own ideas about a text, to express your opinion rather than summarise the opinions of others. Reflective writing can help you to improve your analytical skills because it requires

When comparing my life to Roxane Gay’s author of Bad Feminist, I know we have a lot of similarities, but a lot of differences. We are similar in the fact that we are alive at the same time, and have seen, and read a lot of the same materials discussed in Bad Feminist, we are both women, and we are both bisexual. We are different in the fact I was born in the nineties while she was born in the seventies, I am white, and she is of Haitian descent, and we both have varying events that have shaped our

Throughout the course of my senior year in high school, I decided to take the English 101 college class to get a head start and become prepared for the upcoming post-secondary educational years. Throughout the course, we have had many reading and writing experiences. We read many essays that was helpful, interesting, and powerful in terms of context. In return, my writing has improved in numerous ways. Many particular handouts have been utilized and aided me in the improvement of my writing. Many of the

1/10/16 Infant Stimulation Assignment When first reading through the articles and not having done the web search yet, I was really conflicted in my decision on what to believe and what not to believe. Before even reading any of the articles I had a mindset that there were critical periods of development. I distinctly remember learning that in my developmental psychology class and I recall briefly touching upon it in child psychopathology as well as in my developmental psychology: social development

My parents always talk about how I was a really mean kid. I think the reason for this was because I really didn’t care how others felt. As I grew older I developed empathy. I can look back on my life and see a correlation with the amount of reading I completed, and the the expansion of my empathy. Empathy is important because it helps you connect with people, and it helps you understand people’s motives. As a teacher knowing these things helps because I interact with people everyday in both my