Author: Emilio (Page 7 of 7)

The ingredients or conventions to the education narrative genre is to learn either through writing or from your past. writing on things that bother you or even on your life can be life changing because of the way you express yourself in writing you look at things differently. for example, in the Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing” by the Latinx teen as he wrote he learned more and actually wanted to help people in his situation of not fitting in and being an outcast wherever he goes. writing helped him see things differently.  As well as in “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde we see how she faced racism with her family, and it ruined her graduation gift. and writing about it can help others to take it in as well as even change the minds of racist people and really see the anger and damage caused it’s like teaching them with your life in a way. A way to get started with my own education narrative is to reflect on my life and something I want to teach myself and others with my life and in that case, it would be to learn how to be at peace with yourself and to always keep your composure. my question and concern of writing one of my own would be what I would be comfortable saying and what wouldn’t I be. there are many things I keep private in my life that make up my past and how I act and who I am. If I were to write my concern would be what to say because I don’t share my feelings or past with anyone only things, I’m comfortable saying.

When Mike Bunn says that we already are authors I feel as if he is referring to our past in school. no matter what the majority of people have wrote essays in the past and have written things. and that can help when reading. when reading like a writer as he states we may ask ourselves would I use this? we can make the pros and cons of the writers when we imagine it in our writing. and also reading like a writer can help you to understand more and be more intrigued. the more I read this chapter the more intrigued I was to how the mind of a writer is. I started looking for attention catchers I looked for things I would use or can use. and it can help shape our imagination. the example of the architect and the guy who likes history is a prime example of shifting your imagination to whatever you’re reading. it’s like in school when I read that I thought of an argumentative essay and how both sides will read and react. you can either support it and find things to help your side of a debate or you can think of how you can counter it in a writing. Mike Bunn said we were authors because we can read things in different perspective, we can find out what the author meant by saying things and why they wrote what they wrote. a lot of assignments growing up was to find the meaning of what the author wrote or the hidden message and that’s what I think reading like a writer is.  I can use reading like a writer in my everyday life I can learn new words to help better my vocabulary as I read like a writer. something in Bunns writing that I would like to use for myself is relating myself to the reader or compare myself it can open my eyes to catch the reader’s attention more and for the reader to read what I write more carefully. I now feel like I’m going to read things differently from now on