What I consider reading and writing to be!

6 - The writing and reading you did in high school and the writing and reading you do now in college carry with them certain assumptions about why literacy is important. What values or purpose lie behind your literate activities?

In high school I loved to write. Even if there wasn't an assignment I would still write stories and things of that nature. I can also remember back in gammar school, those were the days i really could come up with some pretty interesting stories. If I read the same ones today I do not know what I would think of them. When I started having to write papers for my high school classes it was a big change. At first I thought it would not be so hard but I was overwhelmed at first. Once I got the hang off it I sort of found an importance. It is important to me to be able to express who you felt about thing you read and also actually be able to understand what the writer says. Reading and writing play an important part in my life because it helps me to express my feelings. To me it comes as a stress reliver and has helped me throughout my life so far. Now I'm in college and I assumed the writing would be taken to a much higher level. Indeed is has been and I've started getting adjusted to it. It takes much more preperation and I know I should have been expecting that. I now think literacy is more important to the teachers than the students because it is there job to teach us. I guess when I was in high school more of the reading related to me rather than now. Even though it does not relate to me I still feel it is important to read about many different subjects and take in the ideas of other people. Reading and writing gives me a sense of knowledge becasue it enables you to put yourself in there position I see and try to understand why they think the way they do. Reading and writing is the best priviledge a person can have in life because it is considered their voice. I believe that reading and writing is extremely valuable and serves a grave purpose for our society.