My Literally Literacy Skills

Literally Literacy Many people take literacy for granted while most across the world long to know how to read and write. I however love to read and write. I have had the luxury of learning these skills in my youth, as I have said above many people of the world are not as fortunate. While many children at a young age had people around them read stories, news articles, or even religious sermons I was taught how to read in a very adolescent stage. Through my life these skills have flourished into something more. Helping me evaluate the times and understand other’s ideas and thoughts. Literacy has become a very important skill in my life and I would never trade it for the world as it should be for everyone who has learned at a young age.

First, I learned to read and write in first grade. It seemed harsh back then to force such small children such as ourselves to learn to write cursive and print along with learning to read small sentenced short stories to reciting 1 Corinthians 13. But I am so thankful that Macon Road Baptist taught me these skills at such a young age. Of course being young I hated cursive lessons but as I learned more and more each day my cursive writing grade was just a free A+. Also as my reading
Even the easiest of sentences would’ve made my day. As when Malcolm X grew frustrated not being able to write a letter to Mr. Elijah Muhammad I grew frustrated trying to write (120). I craved knowledge when I was young to the point where I was even an over achiever then! I was a shy, quiet child but when I tell you I tried I did try being as smart as some of the kids I looked up to. I saw some of my peers that I thought were smarter than me as idols. I planned to be just like them and wanted to just be as successful if not more. This is what drove me to be an overachiever in nearly all subjects. Even if I wasn’t exceptionally good at the class I would drive myself to