My Literacy Timeline

By anniesudlow

  • Birth

    I was born

  • Move to Chile

  • Started 'jardin' in Chile

  • Moved to Canada and started French immersion (grade 1)

  • Period: to

    My dad read chapters of books to my siblings and I every night

  • Period: to

    We spend a month every year in a small town in Mexico

  • I started reading chapter books and cultivating my reading interests

  • Book Report

    I did a book report that impacted my reading love on My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

  • Harry Potter was life.

    Harry Potter was life.

  • Studied for a semester in Mulhouse, France

  • My French teacher tore up an essay I wrote

    Devastated my writing confidence.

  • I got this

    The realization that thesis statements and most academic writing and reading in high school are like plugging items into a formula makes my English grades soar.

  • Graduation from Highschool

  • English Rules

    I started developing my writing voice
  • Period: to

    French as a minor

    I take French as a minor in post-secondary

  • Adventure into unstructured writing

    Through an English course, I was encouraged for the first time to write academically in an unstructured way.

  • Left school

  • Period: to

    The dark zone

    I wrote and read next to nothing during my sejour from academia

  • Children's Books

    I start reading to my kids

  • Crosswords

    I start doing crosswords to pass the time

  • News

    I start engaging with journalism and podcasts

  • REINTRODUCTION TO READING

    With the discovery of audiobooks, I reignite my reading passion and start devouring books at a rate of two or three weekly for a while.

  • School

    I reenter school