I start to feel the nerves rushing; I begin to read ahead making sure I know all the words I’m about to read to the entire class. I keep looking around the class at all the posters that are telling me how to break down the sentence and paragraph. It was in this class that first made me feel ashamed and embarrassed of my struggle to read and write.
I was in this class full of student who found the same subject hard, but my approach to this situation was different. My goal was to improve and be out of this class, everyone else seamed not to have a single worry about being in this remedial course. Her name was Mrs. Benson our teacher. Such a sweet lady with a strict side to her, she would get upset if things didn’t turn out her way. She has the greatest intention and passion to help students like me, even after how we felt about being in her class. Her main focus was to help us understand this subject at our own time, even if that meant making one if us read more than the other to understand what the message was. It was difficult… Specially knowing that your friends are in regular classes, while the others and I were in this classroom breaking our head over the “authors purpose” of the passage we were reading that day in class.
Draining so to say. Mom always told me, “ Tu vas a ser alguien grande en este mundo” (You’re …show more content…
The Now AWSOME Mrs. Benson took weekly trips my English class asking if I was okay, and to also remind me of how she was a resource if I ever needed her. This new English class gave me such a boost of confidence; this gave me the opportunity to help me accomplish a goal I had set for myself. That goal was to leave the label or code that was place on my test, schedule, or even next to my name as teachers took role for the class. I was able to surpass the label and move
I was in this class full of student who found the same subject hard, but my approach to this situation was different. My goal was to improve and be out of this class, everyone else seamed not to have a single worry about being in this remedial course. Her name was Mrs. Benson our teacher. Such a sweet lady with a strict side to her, she would get upset if things didn’t turn out her way. She has the greatest intention and passion to help students like me, even after how we felt about being in her class. Her main focus was to help us understand this subject at our own time, even if that meant making one if us read more than the other to understand what the message was. It was difficult… Specially knowing that your friends are in regular classes, while the others and I were in this classroom breaking our head over the “authors purpose” of the passage we were reading that day in class.
Draining so to say. Mom always told me, “ Tu vas a ser alguien grande en este mundo” (You’re …show more content…
The Now AWSOME Mrs. Benson took weekly trips my English class asking if I was okay, and to also remind me of how she was a resource if I ever needed her. This new English class gave me such a boost of confidence; this gave me the opportunity to help me accomplish a goal I had set for myself. That goal was to leave the label or code that was place on my test, schedule, or even next to my name as teachers took role for the class. I was able to surpass the label and move