Andrew Progin
Professor Cripps
English 122B
9/27/17
Literacy Moment Rough Draft
The summer going into my senior year of high school I moved for Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia to East Lyme High School in East Lyme, Connecticut. Along with the move there were many moments that challenged me out along the way. Some of the challenges were as simple as finding my way around the area, making new friends, and earning a spot on the football team. One of the biggest challenges though was in the classroom, and the biggest challenge in the classroom was the writing workload in my english class.
My literacy moment I chose to write about took place during senior year in english class, it was challenging in two ways. The first way it was challenging was the writing workload, in the high school I came from I took less writing intensive english classes, I knew I was going to struggle in the class day one when the teacher told all the students to get their writing portfolios and they came back with folder full of paper and while the other students were getting their writing portfolios I talked to her about being the new student and my old english classes. She asked by my writing in my past class and I told her it was very minimal compared to the writing they did there.
At my old high school we mainly read in class and had projects and in my classes I had a teacher and a teacher’s assistant so I had extra help in class, and I went to writing lab during my study hall period. In the high school I was going to they given a reading to do, most times to be done on our own, we had a group discussion about the reading about the section we were tod to read or on the whole thing depending on how much reading need to be done, then had write a paper on the reading. So already I knew that this year would be hard for me with all the individual reading and writing we had to do. During the year i was keep up with the workload but I was struggling with it so my teacher had a little meeting with me one day after class about me struggling and she gave me some helpful hints to writing and also told me when she was free so that if I need more help I could find her. An aspect that made it harder for me was the fact the high school didn’t have a writing lab I could good too for extra and the teacher there would always be free. They did have a place I could go for help but the teacher they had there was a math teacher so she couldn’t help me that much with my english, but she still tried to me as best she could.
Another aspect that made it hard was that it was my first year so the teachers weren’t sure what my weakness were or the best way to help me learn unlike my teachers from my old school. This is moment was very challenging for me because of those reasons, I wasn’t use to the work load, I didn’t have a place to go to liking my writing lab at my new school, and the teachers didn’t know my weakness or where I struggled in the writing process. Though it was hard my teachers ended up helping me a lot they found out where I was struggling and where I was good in and they helped me based on my needs for each paper. The areas where my teacher helped me out the most was how to start off a paper and how to brainstorm, she helped me learn when and how to add detail, how to add quotes and evidence from the books we read, and how to conclude my papers. After she helped me we those things my papers started to get better and so did my grade.
Though this challenge was very hard for me it was a good challenge because I learned much more than I knew with writing and my teacher helped me become a better writer because of that. It also gave me much more confidence in myself in and my writing ability to succeed and gave me the confidence and knowledge I need to write more papers. I hope by reading this literary moment other students can learn from what I did and become better writers as I did, by paying more attention to the teacher and if they need help do not wait for the teacher to talk to you but you go ask the teacher for help.
