Over the years, my interest in reading and writing has come in waves of highs and lows. As a fan of movies and music and a student, my reading history varies from articles in magazines, books made in to major motion pictures, and scholarly readings such as text books and academic journals. Apart from reading, part of my literacy history is writing. Being a student, I have written numerous amounts of papers from research papers, narratives, and expository essays. I also blog regularly for my own entertainment about musical artist, pop culture, and films. Currently, I read for fun when I have free time, and I produce content for my blog when inspiration strikes, but I do read at an academic level continuously and write academically due to me
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Being competitive, in elementary I remember constantly reading to earn the most accelerated reading points in the class. Outside of school my parents were subscribed to Scholastics, so every month I would receive three new books each month from the Dr. Seuss collection as well as from the Disney books collection. My scholastic collection was immense, and I read every book at least three times. Once I had extensive practice reading short books, I moved onto chapter books. When I was introduced to chapter books, Twilight the movie began its press tour and I decided to read the entire book prior to watching the movie. I loved that when I read I could picture everything that was happening in to book and making my own movie in my mind using my imagination. When I went to go watch the movie with my older sisters I already had an idea of what to expect and could analyze what was accurate from the book and what had been changed, and I enjoyed going in to the movie prepared to see what was about to be on the screen. After Twilight, I began reading book prior to watching the movies. For example, I have read the Twilight saga, the Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent series, the Percy …show more content…
I loved that reading allowed me to create the universe the book belonged in ad then was able to see how someone else envisioned and produced the book in a film. While I was extremely interested into reading books about major motion pictures, I discovered the world of music and fell in love. My first artist that sparked my interest at the age of 12 was Justin Bieber, One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer. The three artists were always in the media, and everyday there was a new article I a magazine or in the tabloids about their music or about their personal lives. I began to read most of the articles I saw on the internet so that I could keep up with what was happening in the music industry with them. I would read articles about tour dates, music that was to be released, and any scandals they may have ben part of. I enjoyed that by reading the articles on billboard, People, and TMZ allowed me to peek into their worlds well as provided me with updates about what was to come. I also began reading the lyrics to songs so that I could develop a deeper understand of what each
Being competitive, in elementary I remember constantly reading to earn the most accelerated reading points in the class. Outside of school my parents were subscribed to Scholastics, so every month I would receive three new books each month from the Dr. Seuss collection as well as from the Disney books collection. My scholastic collection was immense, and I read every book at least three times. Once I had extensive practice reading short books, I moved onto chapter books. When I was introduced to chapter books, Twilight the movie began its press tour and I decided to read the entire book prior to watching the movie. I loved that when I read I could picture everything that was happening in to book and making my own movie in my mind using my imagination. When I went to go watch the movie with my older sisters I already had an idea of what to expect and could analyze what was accurate from the book and what had been changed, and I enjoyed going in to the movie prepared to see what was about to be on the screen. After Twilight, I began reading book prior to watching the movies. For example, I have read the Twilight saga, the Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent series, the Percy …show more content…
I loved that reading allowed me to create the universe the book belonged in ad then was able to see how someone else envisioned and produced the book in a film. While I was extremely interested into reading books about major motion pictures, I discovered the world of music and fell in love. My first artist that sparked my interest at the age of 12 was Justin Bieber, One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer. The three artists were always in the media, and everyday there was a new article I a magazine or in the tabloids about their music or about their personal lives. I began to read most of the articles I saw on the internet so that I could keep up with what was happening in the music industry with them. I would read articles about tour dates, music that was to be released, and any scandals they may have ben part of. I enjoyed that by reading the articles on billboard, People, and TMZ allowed me to peek into their worlds well as provided me with updates about what was to come. I also began reading the lyrics to songs so that I could develop a deeper understand of what each