narrative essay

Since birth I grew up with a reading disability called dyslexia, which is when people read or speak backwards. This reading disability leads me to not do so well with school work like studying; homework and read aloud in class would be very humiliating for me in the middle of class. It was hard growing up trying to achieve a high grade because of failing the test because I had read a question wrong. My parents would always tell me that all I had to do is study more but I soon realized that I had to do a little more to achieve a higher grade like extra credit but sometime that wouldn’t even be enough.
My older sisters would always achieve much higher than me and tell me that it’s not hard and all I had to do is to apply myself to my school work more, but everything would come more fluently to them because they had no disability when they w ere growing up. They knew little of my reading disability that I had and would think nothing of it because they didn’t fully understand it at the time. Both of my older sisters would help m e though so of my tough homework and practice reading with me which influence me to try harder in school. Threw many years of tough homework’s, long nights studying for test and the study session with my sisters and the help from my sisters I felt I was finally becoming smarter.
I also was a big influence on my sisters as well and I didn’t even know it at the time. As I grew up and got more intelligent with the help from my older sisters, they found out about my disability and them though to themselves “if he can achieve that high of a grade with his disability, what I can do if I really applied myself to my school work.” So they would apply then selves that much more to their school work. Then I realized that I was a big influence on my sisters, b y trying harder in school with my reading disability they would try harder in school and I had no idea about it. I think that you can influence anybody if you have the passion and determination in you to try and help that person, as my sisters did with me and my disability that help me achieve a higher grade in school. You can also influence other people lives and you may not even know it until many years later or you may never know the influence you had on someone’s life, as I did with my sisters. By seeing that I had a challenge in school and was still maintaining a decent average would influence them to try harder in their school work as well. Would your sibling act the same way and try to help you the same way that mine did?

WEEK FIVE NARRATIVE WRITING

Ryan Jones 9/30/08
EDUC 108 MO3 Colin Powell


1. General Powell and his wife Alma visited the top of Jamaica because Powell wanted to see his extended family.

2.During their trip to Top Hill was people started to follow them and when they got there they were greeted a band of youngsters in black uniforms played the Star-Spangled Banner, then Powell meet his family.


3. General Powell drives for a bit then walks the rest of the way for about fifteen minutes.

4. General Powell and his wife meet people who are clothed and also poor people who have tattered clothes and no shoes.


5. General Powell knows that those people are his family because he has a feeling that they are.

6. General Powell was choked with emotion because he hasn’t seen his family in a long time and would have reacted the same way.


7. I have had a experience like this when I meet my extended family in Alabama, I when meet then at the airport stayed there for a weekend and that was it.

8. No I never took an important trip but if I have I bet it would be ever emotional.


9. The topic sentence in the first paragraph is” we piled into the jeeps provided by the Jamaican government and headed north into the interior”. The second paragraph is” The musicians then shifted to calypso tunes as familiar to me as our national anthem”.

compare and contrast

My two favorite things i love to do in my free time is to play the drums and bass. they are two very alike and different things in there own way.The drums you may play sitting down and the bass you have to play standing up but both of them are musical instraments. The drums are a percution instrament and the bass is a string instrament but both of these instraments you can play in a band or on stage. These are just some of the likeness and differents about the brums and bass.

week two assignment

1.The devastating hurriacane ike is destroying threw most of texas but the furious hurricane will not stop people for leaving there homes.
2.Some reading strategies that i am useing to understand the article more is, im reading in a comfortible area and also reading in my room witch is very quit.
3.Some detail that support the story are city manager Steve LeBlanc said "There's not enough clean drinking water to serve the needs of the 15,000 to 20,000 people who stayed." these people had to find there own drinkable water.

reading strategy

I have many reading strategy that keep me alert and focus while i am studying or reading a novel. One steategy of mine is i to read in a comfortable environment, like a couch or a bed, with no loud noises or big distractions, but i tend to fall asleep or day dream when im that relax in my bed or on the couch. I also read in short burst like a half hour to an hour and take a tweinty minute break in between as a small reward for myself,and ill get something to eat or just rexal more witch leads to more sleep. These reading strategy of mine helps me keep focus and also helps me not to lose concentration while im reading or studying, for most of the time. In my conculsion reading in a comfortable environment and reading in short burst are my reading strategys and they help me every day with my studying and reading.

about me

my name is ryan i play the drums and went to ST. peters high school