Words For The Imagination Analysis

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Words for the Imagination I was having such a hard time trying to figure out my first time reading or writing. It was very difficult to gather my thoughts to think of one experience. The more I thought about it and the countless headaches from thinking so hard; I figured why not try to write about the ones that really meant a lot to me and that helped me out. So here it goes… The first time I started reading and writing would be when I was 4 years old. I had just started pre-kindergarten, I had no idea what I was going to do, so I stayed to myself and sat on the mat quietly. My teacher, at the time, had a schedule that she had on one of the cupboards with what we would be doing during the school hours. There was reading on the schedule twice, once in the morning and again during the afternoon. She read to us Little Red Riding Hood, as I heard the words she spoke I didn’t need to look at the book for the illustrations to know what was happening. My mind had started to build a picture of the little girl encountering a huge wolf, running off to hurry to her grandmother’s house, and finding the wolf has already beaten her there disguised as her grandmother after he had eaten the old woman. Many of the children in my class look horrified at the drawing of the wolf with a bulging stomach, I was …show more content…
During the winter, we had just started learning about the Civil War. “I want all you to start writing in these journals as if you are soldiers in the war.” Our teacher had told us when she began to pass out composition notebooks. “You may write about anything you like, but remember it has to pertain to the subject.” I was so excited about writing because it goes back to using my imagination. I like writing about what my experiences while I was pretending to be this soldier. I was able to write about what the aftermath of every battle was or how I was doing while moving out to a different

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