Eng 100-11/ Blog #3: Malcolm X's " A Homeade Education"

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Danielle Rogers

Eng 100-11

Ms. Sanford
    Blog #3: Malcolm X’s 

        “A  Homeade Education” 
                       9/9/11

Malcolm X’s “A Homeade Education

            “Yes, I made it!”  That’s what I yelled out as I walked across the stage at my ceremony; they had given me at Hernandez Transitional School.  The ceremony was a promotion for me to proceed into a 4 year high school.  This was the best time of my teenage years.  But of course, before my great accomplishment, came obstacles I encountered, trying to make it to the top.  I failed summer school, and I had to attend a transitional school, just to name a few.  But my turning point accrued when my mother signed me up for tutoring.  With all I encountered, I learned to accept everything as it comes the good, and the bad, because this is what shaped me into becoming a bright young woman.   

In the summer of 1999, I was in 8^th grade, when I faced my first obstacle in my pre-teen years.  I had to go to summer school, due to failing my IOWA Test in the Reading section, during the regular school year.  When summer school began, I was so upset with myself; I think I cried for a week and a half.  As the weeks went by, I began getting more involved in the activities, and studying sections. 

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But that didn’t help, because I failed the Reading section once again, by one point.  I was sad to here that I will have to attend a transitional school.  To me, that was a punishment because I didn’t know what to aspect.

            Now it’s the fall 1999, I had entered a new world, that’s how I felt at that time.  Attending Hernandez Transitional School was the most devastating time for me.  But as the months went on I grew to accept the fact that, I was placed in that transitional school, so I could get the help I needed to proceed on to high school.  I got the skills I needed to help me start to build me knowledge in reading.  I learned the concept of brainstorming, and free-writing to start writing an essay.  With those skills I finally passed the Reading section on the IOWA Test, and proceeded on to high school.    

But I couldn’t have accomplished any of those things without my mother signing me up for Tutoring in Reading.  My mother was the most influential person in my life, at the times I was going through the depression mode.   With her continuously telling me I can do it, motivated me to step up and try writing an essay, and reading books.   Not only did my mother sign me up to tutoring, but she brought me books, sat down with me, and helped me sound out words I didn’t know how to pronounce. 

The process I went through to help me learn how to read, and write essays, shaped me into a very bright young woman I am today.