Author: Jake Perez Diaz

Entering high school for the first time I feel could be an interesting topic for me to talk/write about as I was entering a whole new world at the time. My time in high school hasn’t been great despite going to “one of the best high school in queens”. I never felt like I belong here or fit right in. It didn’t help as well that Covid-19 happened during my high school cutting the “high school experience” in half as half my time in high school was online staring at a screen.

Another topic I can talk and write about is my time away on vacation in Guatemala. I can talk about my experience and learning the culture that my parents grew up with compared to what I grew up with. I can talk about the ups and downs of being there.

Another topic I can talk about is the struggle with school and my childhood growing up and how I’ve dealt with it. Growing up, compared to everyone else in the educational system I was being left behind by a lot. I was falling behind in everything ( English ,writing, social studies, math, etc.) to the point where I was put in all these programs that was “supposed to help me”, it kinda did not really, mainly because most that has people helped didn’t have a lot of patience and it didn’t helped the fact I was never was interested in all this. As a kid all I ever wanted was to have fun but never truly did as most of my childhood was spent having a book in front of me trying my hardest to understand what was going on but never having a true interest in them.

The ingredients of the educational narrative genre is that it comes ones own experiences. Most of these educational narratives are things that the author has experience at one point in their life and they want to share that experience to the readers. The reason they were written is to show what it is like for them at whatever time period they have lived in. They want people to learn from their educational narrative. Words also are important to educational narrative and how you use them. The way words are being used can determine the tone of the narrative. This can attract readers to read the narrative more or disinterest them. Being well descriptive is also important as it helps the reader feel more connected and engaged to the narrative. A good place to get started on your own educational narrative is to have a self reflection. Self reflect on what has happened throughout your life, choose a moment to mean the most to you and build it from there.  My concern about writing my own educational narrative is making it interesting throughout the entire narrative.  My writing skills and abilities aren’t that great so i hope no one gets bored or uninterested while reading my own educational narrative.  Another concern that I have is making sure my writing is organized and well written and it makes sense. Sometimes when I write it doesn’t make sense and it’s a huge mess so i hope that there won’t be a lot of that in my narrative.

I think Mike Bunn means when he said “You are already an author” is that everyone is an author. Everyone does some type of writing everyday and everyone has their own story that has been told in some way so with that you are already an author even if you don’t see yourself as one.

Some things that I have written in life are essays for either assignments or tests for my Ela or Social Studies classes. Texting/messaging others is another way that I write in a day to day basis.

I use words on a daily basis, we all do. Words help us communicate and understand one another. I used words by speaking, reading, and writing, these are some way I use words on a daily basis. Learning new words can help me write down what I feel like writing, making it organized and help express what I’m trying to say better so others can understand. This expertise will help me in my college and reading career as I struggle on writing in general so learning new words and reading more can help me see what mistakes I’ve made or better words can be use and improve on my writing skills and abilities.

There are 2 things that I’ve noticed in Mike Bunn’s writing is that he like to ask questions in his writing to keep his reader actively involved and allows to the reader to think about the question and reflect. I wanna try that for myself as when I write I feel that its boring so writing questions on whatever it is that I’m writing about will get readers to be interested. Another thing that I’ve noticed in Mike Bunn’s writing is that he is very descriptive on what he is saying and explain something. He has that ability to be very descriptive and not go off topic and that’s an ability that I want to learn as I also often go off topic when I write so it would be nice to have that ability.