things i do that help me be successful in time managing with my homework is picking two days out of the week to stay home in my room with my t.v and phone off to just work on my homework. its days when my phone is holding me back because i always check it or take a phone break which i need to stop doing. its times where i just stop and sleep just to get a break on homework, but now i do it too often.

 As a kid I struggled understanding reading. Half the time I would think it, but say it wrong. I always second guessed myself when I read because I thought the words I said in my brain was wrong and so I would say something completely different & when they would repeat it correctly, I would think I should know that word, or pronounce it’s how I see it . Me learning In school, and me learning at home was totally different.

   When I was a first grader I had a.d.d, you can have a.d.d for different reasons. Well mine was lack of focus. This stopped me from focusing on the important things I needed to gain and learn in the classroom. I remember always having the red card at the end of class, not for being bad but for never being focus on the teacher. Talking, playing with something, looking out the windows, and etc. at the end of my first grade year my teacher then explained to my mother that I wasn’t having a hard time than others I felt I wasn’t ready to move on to the next grade. So my mother held me back. Throughout the second year of first grade I got better at focusing and learning on the same path as others and moved on to second grade. 

   When I moved on to the second grade I remember having to start reading thicker books called chapter books and as when read them books I began to struggle with my reading. Being a second grader your post to be on a second grade reading level, but me I wasn’t. I had a very hard time  learning to read words, basically words too. That’s when I start getting removed from class because they started to notice my mistakes when I would read out loud in class or when we had to write things. My second instructor would bring these small little books and only make me read the first paragraph. As I read she would underline all the words I read incorrect. She would never tell me the correct words so I didn’t never get better at reading. I always missed class a lot just to hear myself read wrongly every time. 

   I feel school wasn’t the place that helped me get better in reading because they didn’t never correct my mistakes so I would be better, but more make me feel differently for doing my mistakes. It’s like they would take us out of the class to help out the teacher focus more on the kids who was on path. 

   I’m really happy my first grade teacher let my mother know about my learning issues because due to that I got more help after that I needed to get better it was basically like studying. My mom at to find a way that she knew helped me learn and remember words and she did. I remember me and my mom going to the library a lot to pick out book I wanted to read for this week and every time I would complete each book she would make me go up a level to challenge my skills. I came from reading with her, to reading alone in my room. 

    As of today I am still trying to better my reading. I might not get books from library no more. But I do different reading everyday. Might be class work, my be my paper, or a post on my phone. Even though all these things happen to me I didn’t let it push me down more or made me stronger. 

Malcolm X intended audience is for people of any kind of race. Anybody who was treated unfairly or wrong by any white people. what audience listened more was black people due to racism at the time.

He talks about black man being the worlds most shameful case of minority Oppression. he also talk about not having a education past the 8th grade. which if you are any other race than white some place people don’t have a run education or chance than others.

group presentation

9/24/19 — maddie kendricks portfolio

anything can motivate you be write negative or positive. cisneros grew up as the only daugther. she always wanted her dad approval on her writing. she writes for everybody, she wants everybody to love he writing.

i related to her being the “only ” sometimes being the only doesn’t feel good .

Branch Head access to close stores, Lopez had to drive 17 miles to a big city Just to find the only suitable groceries but also Spanish language newspapers. People might say that Raymond branch was born at the right time and live in the right place, but the experiences of Dora Lopez troubles that thought.

I do agree with brant’s claim, race plays a big part in this, having better access, being a certain color, and having successful people in your life can play a big part. Not having that many people your race in America and I know English can be very hard for a person trying to be successful and getting great opportunities. 

  My own literacy history is not having as much access branch would.  I will consider myself in common with Lopez. me being black growing up in a black community in a public school I didn’t really have as much resources but my mom and my teachers. Who  wanted to make sure they would try to help me become a successful black woman. They think because you’re from the ghetto and you’re black you’re not smart you’re not going to be successful but that isn’t true race doesn’t have to do with anything. You work for it you’re going to get it no matter your color. 

   Although Pasqualin cover a lot I wish he had written more about when the teacher would talk about him right in front of his face. I wanted him to talk about that topic more because I wanted to know how he felt at them moments. I wanted to know did that make him want to learn me to get better, or did it bring him down. It was a time when teachers would do these things to me and it would bring me down. 

  I can use this feeling by getting more into how I feel when it comes to telling a story, so the readers can understand why I brought up this topic. I want the readers to feel and understand what I am trying to explain. 

the things Brandt had to say about sponsors of literacy was new to me. what spoke out to me was how it changed between 1895 and 1985. as i read on i started to get lost