Personal Narrative: My Internship At Eva K. Bowlby Public Library

This semester, I continued my internship at Eva K. Bowlby Public Library. However, this semester, my internship was a paid internship. I mainly worked in the Literacy Department this semester. Last semester, the two directors of the Literacy Department left their positions, so the Library Director took applications to fill their spots. However, she only found one person suitable for the job. Because of this, she asked me if I would want more responsibility within the library. I accepted the position as Assistant Director of the Literacy Department. My new responsibilities for this semester included helping the Literacy Department run smoothly and covering when the Director was not available. I also continued to tutor the children and continued doing an outreach program at the Open Arms Drop-In Center. …show more content…
On Mondays, I would work with a young student who was in Pre-kindergarten. I worked with this student last semester as well, but the plan that I had for his work changed. In his school, he was learning how to write his name and how to trace lines. As extra practice, I would write his name in dotted lines and he would have to trace over them. He also was learning how to write his name on his own, so we practiced that as well. I also like to include activities based on what he is interested in. For example, he is very interested in dinosaurs. I try to include dinosaurs in most of the activities that I do with him. For example, to help with counting, we do connect-the-dots activities. I make sure that each connect-the-dots that we do has at least one dinosaur in it. We also read a book which is centered around counting the dinosaurs on each