Assignment 1

 

 

         

                                                                          Autobiography 

 

            My name is Jorge Quevedo, I was born in Colombia and moved here when I was seven years old with only my mother. I am a junior here at NJCU and I have many interests like basketball, coding, hustling and business ventures. I decided to take this course because literacy is important in almost every aspect of life and to fine tune these skills practicing is key which is included in this course. Literacy is evident in my home and community in many ways starting off with being raised out of a majority Spanish speaking family. My earliest experience of becoming literate starts with days where I was in daycare. A person who really helped, supported, and inspired me in my literacy journey was the director of the daycare I attended Di-Di. She encouraged me in many ways starting off with reading books including diary of the wimpy kid when I was really young and giving me small writing exercises before I even started primary school. She also made me help any other bilingual students at a very young age when my skills were only basic.  An experience that significantly impacted my development was transferring to an all-English School from a Bi-lingual school. This was a big issue for me when I was young because I felt left out and incompetent when it came to speaking and writing English. This brings me to the earliest experience as a learner, I began to feel literate after 4th grade because of the extensive work and practice I have done the prior summer because I couldn't communicate with my classmates. The activities that I enjoyed where speaking, listening, and writing skills. This included speaking with my friends that already knew Spanish and English and writing assignments my parents use to print out for me when writing was an issue for me. I had a couple of role models including my baby-sitter at the time and her son which was a cyber security major just like me. They helped me perfect my reading and writing skills with hands on work I would have with her son which was not always pen and paperwork it was more verbal communications and computers which I began to have a passion for. Including typing games and math games which where all in Spanish. How I feel about literacy today hasn't changed since I arrived in this country. Literacy remains to be a big factor in every aspect of life including business, family, and relations I continue to use literacy in my personal life by trying to speak more formally and researching and understanding different words I’ve never heard before. Lastly, my parents continue to inspire my literacy development because I’m the first generation of fluent speaking English in my family. I am also the first generation of college undergraduate here in the US.  Which means that I am the teacher now helping all my little cousins and my aunts with the reading and writing skills that are used here in America.