Growing up in the in a small town in the country of Belize I was exposed to nature tremendously. I would visit the Mayan ruin “xunantunich” and just sit at the very top and admire the greenery; this very moment was the high light of my day. Many years later that Mayan ruin is the place where I can escape and be free; xunantunich is where my love for nature began. After leaving Belize I have not found a place where I find peace and my move for nature slowly die until I was introduced to Thoreau, Alexandra Horowitz, Sharon Bladholm, and Rachel Carson. I realized that nature it beautiful and different in any part of the world, my love for nature grew again.
I have lived in the city of Chicago for so many years now and pass by the same places almost every day, and I would not pay attention to my surroundings because I was not interested. But, for the pass few weeks I have opened my eyes to see the beauty the neighborhood has to offer. By doing so, I connected my experience to Alexandra Horowitz’s and her book On Looking. Learning about Sharon Bladholm before her class presentation was a very eye opening experience because I knew so much about her already. I noticed …show more content…
The idea of having a “model” is also great because I am just able to look back and follow steps and insert whatever I’m working on into stripling process. Being new to the stripling process I believe has made my love for reading grow much more now because I know what questions to ask in order to understand better what I am reading or if I just simply stuck understanding the paragraph. The Stripling model had been able to make me a deep thinker and just sometimes mentally analyze a reading. The striping model has just made me improve as a whole by being a reader and a
I have lived in the city of Chicago for so many years now and pass by the same places almost every day, and I would not pay attention to my surroundings because I was not interested. But, for the pass few weeks I have opened my eyes to see the beauty the neighborhood has to offer. By doing so, I connected my experience to Alexandra Horowitz’s and her book On Looking. Learning about Sharon Bladholm before her class presentation was a very eye opening experience because I knew so much about her already. I noticed …show more content…
The idea of having a “model” is also great because I am just able to look back and follow steps and insert whatever I’m working on into stripling process. Being new to the stripling process I believe has made my love for reading grow much more now because I know what questions to ask in order to understand better what I am reading or if I just simply stuck understanding the paragraph. The Stripling model had been able to make me a deep thinker and just sometimes mentally analyze a reading. The striping model has just made me improve as a whole by being a reader and a