Reading And Writing Career

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It all started in preschool where I was just beginning to learn the alphabet. Then as I progressed in elementary school I went from learning to read children’s books to chapter books, as well as learning to write on my own. Following that I moved on to middle school writing plenty of essays advancing in my literary career. Now, as I move onto high school, I’m creating more essays than I ever have before, and I would call it one of the major points in my literary career. Throughout my career, reading and writing haves always seemed like a chore to me, and it doesn’t seem like my view on that is going to change anytime soon. First, starting before it all started, was preschool. There I learned the very basics, as would be expected from a 4-year-old kid just learning how to handle the demands of school; although, it wasn’t very demanding back then. With it being preschool, there really wasn’t too much reading, and there wasn’t any writing. However, moving along into the early stages of elementary school, kindergarten would be a more fair representation of the start of my career. There I learned the alphabet, how to form my letters (and eventually words), along with having my teacher read to me and my class. As basic as learning …show more content…
It started with word count requirements and spiralled out of control from there. A 500 word count requirement from the beginning of the year turned into hands on research projects at the end of the year. In this project you were required to construct letters intended for a national park begging for them to send you some information so you could then create another writing assignment on their park. Yet this was all just sixth grade and it was the introduction into the world of writing for me. Seventh and eighth grade only got increasingly worse. As it progressed, 1000 word count requirements increased to page requirements and added to my hatred for

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