practice reading

"Forget Goofing Off" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/education/15recess.html?adxnnl=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1328028329-0aQ28nbYw96Q7l51ndUhfA

They are concerned about bullying, social skills, and obesity.  They are trying to think of solutions during recess to eliminate these problems. Solutions like having organized activities and more supervision have increased these concerns.    

Writer's autobiography

Jessica 

January 29, 2012

As a person I have always enjoyed reading and writing.  My favorite type of books I like to read are mysteries, real life stories, and romance stories.  I love reading on my own time with books I enjoy.   On the other hand, when it came to a teacher picking a book for me that I was not interested in I absolutely didn’t enjoy reading then.  I also have trouble with comprehension therefore that would hold me back sometimes.  One book I had to read in high school was “Night”.  I did not understand the book at all and there were too many words I didn’t know.  When I came across a word I didn’t know the teachers would tell me to try and figure out the meaning of the word and then if I couldn’t to just skip it.  How do I understand a book when there are too many words I don’t know?  Also when I didn’t enjoy reading the book it was hard to focus on what was happening in the book.   Then after I had to write a text based essay which I didn’t enjoy writing.  Writing text based essays were not my favorite type of writing because they were hard for me and I felt like I was stuck in a hole and I could not be creative.  Creative writing was my type of writing because I didn’t have to understand a book to write the piece and I can connect it to my life more easily.  Music in my Life was one essay I wrote in high school that I enjoyed writing.  This piece of writing had memories from my life and I would connect each memory with a song.  Writing this piece was fun and it helped me get all my feelings out.  As I grew up my sister and I always loved to play school.  When we would play school she would be the teacher and I would be the student and I would write stories.   I have had a lot of experience with reading and writing and even though I have some weaknesses in both of those areas I don’t let those weaknesses keep me from reading and writing.