Personal Narrative: My Mentor

When I began Energy Express, I thought my role would be improving children's reading skills and helping them cultivate a passion for reading. However, throughout my summer of service I learned that the role of an Energy Express mentor is much greater. To mentor a child is to shape their personality and future, it is to help them grow to love learning and also to love themselves, it is to offer them hope and love since many children in this area struggle within untraditional family structures, and it is to teach them their potential is endless. Therefore, my three goals would be: cultivate a love for readnig through hands-on activities, provide a support, fun, and active enviroment that welcomes and comforts all children, and to build lasting, stable friendships among the children I mentor. …show more content…
This is exceptionally critical to the children of McDowell as they are often trapped within a small community that offers them few oppurtunities to see and envision new ways of life. I hope that as a mentor I can teach children how to utilize reading to learn about new places, cultures, periods in time, and events in history. Furthermore, I would like to build their imagination and creativity through reading so that they might be better prepared for creative problem solving. I have found that cultivating a love for reading is best accomplished through classroom disscusions, reading plays that allow children to immerse themselves in the story or acting the book out after reading it, and creating visual diagrams that commit aid in commiting the story to