Literacy Timeline

• Growing up in a literate home where my parents taught me the basic steps to learning.
• My dad read me stories before going to bed. The one that stands out the most is a book called "The Hatchet"
• My 3rd grade teacher gave me my first writing assignment and that's when I learned how to use a period and not to use drag on sentences.
• Going into 6th grade I gave my first speach when trying to join the student council committee and I made it.
• Growing up I listened to the radio to catch up on Detroit Tigers games. I learned a lot about speaking from the announcers.
• I also like to read the newspaper on Sundays to catch up on sports highlights.
• I grew up in a blue collar community so I knew what it was like to not have good vocabulary.