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Summer Reading Autobiography
Being born a reader, is the way I describe my life. Sounds nice right, sounds powerful and like this is going to an uplifting story time. Well I’m lost. I started on a path with certainty and joy but now I am lost. I feel as if I was pushed from the road that I had chosen for myself by the society that I live within. The choices that are made are always influenced in some way by your society, right? But then I think, maybe I wasn’t pushed, but just standing on the edge and I just needed a nudge.
In the beginning, I didn’t mind reading as a child. I started reading and writing a little earlier than most kids. I loved learning new words and I began to use them even if they didn’t make any sense in my sentences. My earliest memory of reading was
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Well, summer reading is quite self-explanatory but maybe where you come from, you didn’t have to do it. Summer reading is basically where the county provides a list of books and depending on your Lexile score, a test we took at the end of the year, you would choose six books to read during the summer. Summer reading was for all students from kindergarten to 12th grade. In elementary and middle school I felt a sense of obligation and I would have my parents get me all the books I needed and I would read all my books. I stopped doing the summer reading when I got to high school. The sense of responsibility was lost when I realized that I was one of the only students that would read the required books. The teachers weren’t enforcing it so why do something that no one else was doing is what I …show more content…
I started with AP composition in sophomore year of high school. The teacher was nice but she wasn’t the best teacher. We as a class agreed that she wasn’t really prepping us to pass our final exam. I hate to say it, but she wasn’t kind of a pushover so we as a class kind of did as we pleased. She would make compromises with us even though she was the teacher. She would say if you finished this writing prompt, you can play cards or games for the rest of the class period. Well I passed the class with flying colors, but I didn’t get a good enough score on the AP exam to get college

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