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Freshman Writing Class

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In schools, you get a student ID, It’s just a 5 or 6 digit number to keep track of you. To me the schools are attempting the impossible. Humans are to be described in words, not numbers. Why not keep track of us by name? Our personality? Our look? Instead of a number. Why not call me by my name, Cynthia Sophia Reid. Because of these numbers, I feel like more of the latest model of a vacuum cleaner instead of, me. And then there’s the molds, for all of the projects and overall any assignment ever, you get a mold that you must follow. Some stricter than others, some more annoying than others. When I write, I want to write what I want to write. That’s what I do in my free-time, but then with writing assignments in schools, you must write what the teacher makes you write and I don’t like that. I’m not irritated with having to focus on a specific genre, but when a teacher tells me what my plot needs to be and every single detail about it, I don’t like it. …show more content…

I just put my thoughts into words, then words on a page, then words on a page that told a story, a story that formed in my brain.
The teacher, Ms. Jones, began to speak, her headache-provoking perfume wafted around us, “Today, we will start writing realistic fiction stories.”
I raised my

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