The literacy agent that has positively influenced me the most in my academic career has definitely been my High School senior year English teacher Mr. Green. He convinced me to peruse a higher education after High School, when I wasn’t planning too. Over the course of that year we built a strong teacher to student relationship. We also became good friends as time went on and even spend some time discussing interests outside the classroom. He showed an interest in helping me as an individual since the beginning of the year. Sometimes people just click and the get along very well since the beginning, and that’s exactly same thing that happened with Mr. Green and I. At the start of the year I remember sitting through his class and thinking to
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We began to discover that we had similar likes and dislikes, and I guess that that’s what got us to get along pretty well along the year. We would discuss things like politics, sports, and many other things. He was so very well liked among students. Many started having lunch in his room, and as you can imagine I was one of them. We spend lunch time in his classroom because it was so interesting to have conversations with him. Among our many similarities was the strong passion for the Green Bay Packers. Both being originally from Wisconsin, we would spend hours talking about the Packers. Among those conversations at lunch one day we had a very serious one near the end of the school year. When he asked me what my plans after high school were. I told him I didn’t really know I guess at the time I was thinking more along the lines of taking a break for a few years from school, and maybe even the military. I hadn’t really thought about it that much. Shocked by my response he started telling me that if I were to take that decision I would be committing a mistake. He told me that life was hard out side of school and that competition for good jobs in recent years had grown. He stressed how important a college education was in order to be successful now days in our
We began to discover that we had similar likes and dislikes, and I guess that that’s what got us to get along pretty well along the year. We would discuss things like politics, sports, and many other things. He was so very well liked among students. Many started having lunch in his room, and as you can imagine I was one of them. We spend lunch time in his classroom because it was so interesting to have conversations with him. Among our many similarities was the strong passion for the Green Bay Packers. Both being originally from Wisconsin, we would spend hours talking about the Packers. Among those conversations at lunch one day we had a very serious one near the end of the school year. When he asked me what my plans after high school were. I told him I didn’t really know I guess at the time I was thinking more along the lines of taking a break for a few years from school, and maybe even the military. I hadn’t really thought about it that much. Shocked by my response he started telling me that if I were to take that decision I would be committing a mistake. He told me that life was hard out side of school and that competition for good jobs in recent years had grown. He stressed how important a college education was in order to be successful now days in our