*Kindergarden*- The first book I read was a Thomas the Train book and I had a hard time reading it because I couldn't pronounce the words right and I didn't understand the concept that the words formed into sentences. I would cry every time that I had to read because I just could not understand something that was so weird to me. I would get so frustrated and mad at my parents when they made me read. I thought it was punishment.
*2nd Grade*- Three Little Pigs Project: Every time that we read a book, we had to make a project out of it. I chose the book The Three Little Pigs and after that, it prompted me to want to keep reading because I loved the idea of making projects every time I read a book. I read an excessive amount of books after that.
*3rd Grade*- I went through this phase where I started to write my own books for fun. An example of a book I decided to write was called The Ghost Who Lived On Elm Street. It's a very bizzare title, especially for a young girl but that's just what came to mind. Or I just had the misconception that I thought of it on my own, i'm still not sure. I also used to write stories about my friends and I going on various vacations to places like Hawaii and Florida.
*3rd Grade*- Third grade was also the time where I first started learning how to write in cursive. It was actually pretty difficult for me and I remember having to practice with my parents a lot by using writing practice books. I could not write the letters b,f, and z because they confused me. Looking back, I can't believe that I struggled so much with writing in cursive but we all have our moments.
*4th Grade*- There were quite a few writing projects that I had to do in school that involved writing Holiday themed stories for my parents. At the time, every single Holiday was my favorite and I made sure to write a story for each of them. My most prized ones would have to be the ones I had written for Halloween and Christmas.
*5th Grade*- I started to really get into the Harry Potter series especially after seeing the 4th movie. I started watching the movies before I read the books but many of my friends at the time who had read them said that the books are better than the movies and they had many things that the movies didn't have in them. I took those books everywhere and I strongly remember even reading the 2nd book at a restaurant once.
*7th Grade*- I started to really get into reading books for fun instead of just for something school related. I became an avid reader and had the compulsion to want to read every single book humanly possible. I started another crazy book series called Warriors which to sum it up to a point, was about cats. It sounds really lame now i'm sure, but at the time those were the best books I had ever read.
*8th Grade*- Since 7th grade, my love for book series grew imensely. I then followed the crazy Twilight bandwagon. I started reading the Twilight series by the end of 8th grade and finished the last book the summer before 9th grade. That kind of fell through after seeing the 1st movie but I still read all the books and have seen all of the movies so far. (Team Jacob!)
*10th Grade*- I had taken an Honors English class which strongly influenced my writing ability and made me not dread writing papers so much. I developed a strong vocabulary as well as a how to structure my writing well, and I put all of these skills to use every time that I write a paper.
*11th and 12th Grade*- Because I am following the path to a career in the medical field, from 11th-12th grade I had the ability to be in a Medical Careers program at my school. When enrolled in this program, something called Medical English is the english class that you could take which is what I did. In this class, I got to read a lot of very influential books and wrote an insane amount of essays and book reports and so forth. For 12th grade I was put into an online English class which required a lot of independence and of course, writing, and a lot of reading as well.
*I read at least 2-3 books a month and as for writing, I really only write when I have to :)
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