My freshman year I had the best English teacher I’ve ever had, Ms. Torres. Ms. Torres was the first teacher to actually sit me down and teach me how to write proper sentences and how to construct essays. Unfortunately, the rest of my time in high school was not like that at all. My sophomore, junior, and senior years in English classes were spent listening to teachers talk at me instead of talking to me. Up until high school I had never really read a book on my own and without help, I was the only person from my group of friends that didn’t read any of the Harry Potter books; I felt like an outcast. The first book I’d ever read was Sarah Dessen’s Lock and Key at the age of
My freshman year I had the best English teacher I’ve ever had, Ms. Torres. Ms. Torres was the first teacher to actually sit me down and teach me how to write proper sentences and how to construct essays. Unfortunately, the rest of my time in high school was not like that at all. My sophomore, junior, and senior years in English classes were spent listening to teachers talk at me instead of talking to me. Up until high school I had never really read a book on my own and without help, I was the only person from my group of friends that didn’t read any of the Harry Potter books; I felt like an outcast. The first book I’d ever read was Sarah Dessen’s Lock and Key at the age of