My Linguistic History

Ever since I could remember I loved to write. I first discovered my love for writing in elementary school in the 3rd grade. We all got our own personal journals in which we would have formal written assignments to do in class every day of the week, but every friday we got to free write. That was my favorite, free writing Friday. I loved free writing Friday because we had no limits, no restraints. Our only rule was to write. We could be as creative, wacky, and crazy as we wanted to. The best part about it was there was no certain amount we had to write. You could write as much as one word on the page or write two pages back to back. The time where writing went from being fun to becoming a hassle to me was in Middle School. Why you might ask? This is when I could remember when I first had to write for a standardized test..fun fun fun (sacasm). We spent weeks upon weeks preparing for a prompt that no one would know but the practice we were doing would be simular to whatever prompt we had to prepare for. I remember a lot of kids being frustrated and upset during that portion of the test, however I did not fell frustrated or upset. Weird right? I know! I think it had much to do with the way my teachers taught and prepared me and my other fellow Mary D. Lang Elemntary alumni for Middle School. The kids from Greenwood Elementary and New Garden Elementary seemed frustrated and disorganized. At Mary D I can remember writing in a journal either the same or simular to the one i got in third grade from third grade through sixth. Out teacher's knew that by the time we got to middle school the idea of the standardized test would make us panick and feel unrelaxed or nervous or unprepared about writing. So without giving it some big scary name like standarized, they just gave us prompts simular to the ones they knew would be asked and told us to write about them. By the time we got to Middle School and we got intorduced to these prompts, everyone from my elementary school thought this is what we had been doing in the past three years, it is just now that we get to middle school they call them prompts for standardized tests. I feel like the basis of writing starts in the elementary classroom, I now realize that ever since the third grade I have been prepared to write, whether it be responding to a prompt, bloging, writng a research paper, a review for a book or movie, or simply just writing a poem or free writing in my journal. The preparation that I got in elementary school lead me to be comfortable with my writing in middle school, which placed me in good classes in High School that prepared me for where I am today in this very moment writing this blog right now. I feel that my discovery and love for writing in elemenary school has something to do with me wanting to be a teacher now., Teachers help students find their niche, and I want to help someone else find their's.