In Chapter, 5, an intercalary chapter, the tenant farmers suffers from the payments that were unable to be paid mainly due to the decreased crop production. The quote describes the owner’s situation where they were also struggling to pay for the debt they made. Steinbeck uses personification (metaphor) such as the ‘bank monster’ avoiding eating side-meat and ‘breathing’ to describe the bank’s desperate situation where their business would not be able to survive without the reliance on the landowners. Like the monsters, who break the peace and show their wickedness from their unconsciousness, the bank became a source of suffering and pain of the tenant farmers and transformed into ‘money-demanding machine’ when they got into a desperate situation.
I try to read alone. My struggle is reading. It's hard to pronounce and understanding the meaning. I like to read with a teacher or adult who can explain the meaning when I need a help. I think when I read with someone, I can understand more and focus more in the book.
Reflective Practice in the Early Years Tools for Practitioners 1. Introduction “We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey- You have probably heard the term “reflective practice”, but do you really know what this means?
When I was little I was never really good at reading and writing. I always felt dumber than all the other kids because I never really knew how to read. But then I finally learned how to read in the first grade and felt amazing. Since I didn't know how to read I always had trouble in school from kindergarten to first grade.
Reading and writing influence the way that I interact with the world. I learn new things from reading and writing, which in turn help me communicate with others because I am learning new facts and skills. My relationship with literacy is a very close one. It's helped me in many areas of my life, such as being more social. Without literacy in my life, I don't know what I'd do.
Reading is an essential life skill. The ultimate goal of reading is to comprehend and make meaningful connections with text. Therefore, the development of skills needed for reading begins at an early age and progresses through stages into adulthood (Chall, 1996). Within the early stages of reading development, children begin learning and acquiring these specific skills. Moreover, many of the skills learned during early childhood are constrained skills.
The history of my literacy has been a long road of a frustration and learned lessons. As a child, I was a bit of a loner so reading and writing were the closest thing to a social life for me. The things that I bottled up inside came out through my writing and it became somewhat of a pass time for me. As long I could remember literacy as has been an important value for me in my life because from very young age I got express my true self without being judged by the outside. Even though in my later years I would deal with some heartaches and set back that lead me to give up on my love for reading.
Growing up literacy has played an important role in my life. My love for literacy stems from my childhood. I remember walking up to my mother when I was a little girl, not even school age at the time and telling her, “I want to learn how to read.” She told me I would learn how to read, write and spell (the excitement I felt). My mother also gave me marble notebook with filled with my first name, last name, alphabets, sight words and sentences written with the dots to trace over (oh how I loved those dots!).
Everywhere I go I have to comprehend text: a label on a package at the grocery store, a sign on the highway, a message on my cell phone, or a chapter in a book. Thus, reading plays a significant role in my life. Growing up I used to struggle when it comes to reading. I could not comprehend what the writer is saying in their text, so I would try to read it over and over again so that I could understand what I was reading. Therefore, my grandmother started to teach me how to read and understand what I am reading.
Disappointedly I haven’t had much experience with reading and writing. The only experience I would count with reading and writing is when it came to schoolwork. Having to write papers I didn’t want to write. Reading boring books I was not interested in. I think since I was graded in doing these assignments I didn’t have a liking in reading a book or writing in my free time.
Learning to read is a great blessing. With every word a toddler figures out how to read expands his vocabulary and helps him to understand more. The first books of his education are simple books with simple words and meanings. As he grows up, the books and words get harder, and more complicated. With the Level of intensity growing, their minds are grow along with them.
My experience is similar to what Brandt wrote about in “Sponsors of Literacy”. Brandt lists teachers, priests, parents, and relatives as the literacy sponsors that have guided others to learn how to read and write (73). All of those examples were the ones who made me literate. As I look back at my life before now, I see the purpose in all of that. It wasn’t just to get me through school and know what I am doing, but to allow me to understand the world around me.
Academic success to me is achieving good grades and understanding the material to get good grades. Academic success also means to have an good attendance. I already get mostly A’s and B’s, but I am not good at staying on top of things. To improve my academic success I will attend class more often, be more organized, pay attention in class, and not procrastinate.
I cannot remember exactly when I first learned to read. I image it would have began during my early school years. I was never or have ever been passionate about reading, however I did like my mum reading books to me at bed time as a child. I grew up in Liverpool, England were reading was never a priority. The only thing I liked to do when I was younger was play football (Soccer) and that’s exactly what I did whenever I had the opportunity to do so.
My experience as a reader isn 't as extraordinary as many, but I love to read. I had some great teachers throughout my education that taught me to enjoy reading challenge oneself and not be intimidated by it. Through college and today I do not have much time to read, other than school books speech, education ,and reading. Those are the sweet books I know read.
