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My life from birth until now.
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My grandparents and my parents would sit down next to me and read to me as I looked over their shoulders. I studied the words and letters until I was able to read them myself. We would read almost every night. I was always eager to read anything, even at that age.
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In second grade I had my reading tested. They had discovered that I had a high-school level literacy comprehension.
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My teachers had told my parents to give me more challenging books. My parents had decided it was a good idea for me to pick out my own novel. I picked what is now my all time favorite: Frankenstein.
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At age eight, I transferred to a charter school (Wright Elementary). They were very accommodating of my reading abilities and would find books that they believed would interest and challenge me.
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In school we read Taming of the Shrew and I fell in love with Shakespearean writing
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My junior year of high school I joined to Forensics team and performed DI (Dramatic Interpretation).
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My AP Humanities teacher began the semester by teaching us how to interpret poetry. One of the first poems we decided to interpret is Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfOxdZfo0gs]
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For my ESL endorsement I had to take ENG 143 which is a linguistics course. I fell in love with the study and if I wasn't going to be a teacher, I might just be a linguist.
