Literacy Timeline

  • Reciting Prayers

    Reciting Prayers
    When I was a kid, my mother and I recited a prayer every night. I had this stuff animal that spoke the prayer as well.
  • Reading Children Books

    Reading Children Books
    When I was a child, my mother always read to me. I remember being read a nursery rhyme several times. I even read with her sometimes.
  • First Story

    First Story
    Long ago, I wrote my first story. It was really short. I vaguely remember it being about my cat (who unfortunately has passed) and I. I loved Bruce, my cat, to death. He was my best buddy when I was a kid.
  • Christmas Play

    Christmas Play
    I am pretty sure it was in the 3rd grade, but I spoke a line in a play that I had to remember without reading off the slip I was given.
  • First Personal Narrative

    First Personal Narrative
    In the 4th grade, I wrote my first personal narrative. It was about a family member's death, and how it effected my mother and I, and how it all happened. There was so many details as I was pushed to add as many details as possible to make it feel as if the reader was truly there to experience what I felt and saw.
  • First Assigned Story

    First Assigned Story
    In the 5th grade I was assigned to write a story, fictional or nonfictional. I chose nonfictional, and I wrote about a character who had supernatural powers.
  • Choir

    Choir
    In the 5th grade I auditioned and made it into the Bath County Elementary's school choir. I had to sing in key with piano notes. I barely did it, and I remember that I had a really bad cough that day as I embarrassed myself in front of the class whilst trying to sing in key with the piano notes.
  • First Short Story

    First Short Story
    In the 7th grade, I wrote a short story called "The Crimson Scourge". The story was based around a boy who finds himself having powers that are based around darkness and smoke.
  • First Digital Story

    First Digital Story
    In the 7th grade I wrote my first Digital Story. It taught me how to add various little details to make a story better whilst the story was rather small
  • Attempt at Writing a Book

    Attempt at Writing a Book
    In the 8th grade, I attempted to write a book. I got to at least 30 pages and quit, as I ran out of ideas. I put so much time into it, and put all the free time I had when school was going on into putting more details into this story.