Kevon Ramphaul

“Where I Learned To Read” was written by a fellow New Yorker named Salvatore Scibona in the summer time of June 11th and June 13th of 2011. It is based on a person who had zero motivation to finish his years of high school, and would rather work at KFC making a beginners wage of $3.85 instead of carrying on his studies to get a higher paying job. Scibona tried flunking out of high school in his 3rd year. He failed most of classes and even went to the extent of burning his report card in the sink of KFC. He was unable to read, but he tried putting his effort into reading books that he found amusing and wouldn’t just be assigned to read. Then came his senior year and thats when everything changed.

Scibona went on in his senior year and was passed a brochure for college by his classmate. Glancing at the brochure it had immediately caught his attention since the college had nothing to do with grades, textbooks, or even tests. Being a senior in high school this of course would catch the attention of any student, but even though it caught Scibona’s it still made him out to be confused. Now this is where things start to take a turn for the better. As stated Scibona wanted to leave Ohio, and now he was getting that opportunity. The college named St. John College was located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Realizing this gave motivation to Scibona to graduate high school and make it into college. St. John College is where Scibona learnt to read and excelled in his studies. Scibona’s intellectual home turnt out to be St. John College. In the end Scibona’s motivation to leave Ohio also helped him to have a better future making become a renown author.