cashion Reid Cashion Profesor Lynn M. Raymond UWRT 1103 22 August 2015, My Life as a Writer have always disliked reading and writing it was never simulating enough forme. have only recently found love fr reading and writing dv to my assignments being based on subject mater that find enthralling, Though my lve for wading and writing is new, how | got to where [am now in my literacy narratives base on many factors from my life, These factors include the community | grew up in, my family, the impact of technology in my life and spite characteristics that describe me. Though tes ll have huge impacts on my literacy narrative, some had greater influence than the ret To fly understand who Fam as a writer I needed to Jook back at my roots, ook back a the comunity’ T grew up, My community that I grew upin was very large and diverse with having a population of ‘over 100,000 people. I grew up in Cary, North Carolina avery large town right outside the sect of Raleih. The communis ss very dives nan pool fal aes, races and sosioeconomic status. I was very lucky to grow up in a nice upper middle class oun that neighborhood and to attend one ofthe top ranked schools in th rowing up where Idd and attending the schools id have stv) fected my literacy narrative esearch shows that there is a tend between literacy rates and sociocconomie rank, ‘This research states that by the time children from middle-income families with well-educated parents enter the third grade that they know about 12,000 words compared 1 kids from 4. do.serlOeconomic." ) « undereducated fails who only know about 4,00 words itowf iam cash says haCashion 2 consumption, They had seven children bt two baby ges bom as twins died very young. Out of the seven children thre were boys and the others were gis, one ofthe boys was my grander. My grandfather, William Chapin Johnson, was born on June 8, 1928 and died on December 20, 2002. My grandfather owned and ran Johnson's Lumber Company out of “Moocure, North Carona and was a land developer. My grandfather loved to play card games such as poker and he also loved playing and watching all sports especially baseball My mother's maternal side fs Womack. The Womack ancestry ean be traced all he way buck tothe 16 century to Henry Womack of Norfolk County England, The fist Immigrant fiom the Womack family to immigrate to America was Willm Womack somewhere from 1644-1655 the year is unknovn, bu! the method of travel was by boat as one ofthe ist hundreds of colony setters. Upon arrival to America, William purchased land and became afamer, a typical trend forthe Womack family. The majority of my research was on my great grandfather aud great grandmother, Dexter Jones Womack and Iva Hunter Womack. My great prandather Dexter Womack was bor on February’27, 1884 and died on April 3, 1982 and Iva Hunter Womack was bor on Oetoher 9, 1898 and died on March 5, 1985, Dexter Womack was farmer by oceupation and hada large pt of land about one thousand two-hundred acres in size based in Lee Country, North Carolina. Upon his death, large portion ofthe land was sold to pay his ‘medical bills with some of the land divided between is nine living children, One of his many children being, my grandmother Elizabeth Rachel Womack later known a Elizabeth Womack Johnson. Elizabeth was born on November 25, 1928 and died on January 12,1982. never knew my materal grandmother but fom what Ihave been told she was beaut stong woman, very compassionate and loved by all. My maternal grandmother married my maternalCashion 3 b toms toms ‘Technology has always been a huge factor in my life. [use technology every day for wing and communication, Scil medi as allowed me the chance o commana with chose pen mynd wi ie nf fu al resources and ppicatlons. Te inlet has given maces to so much information my fngetp don’ tiow wit to do witht The nteet has made teaser form ofnd imation tase ig ean i tam end md inp my de Websites sch as dcionry.com and many ey lopetias help me find nfoation and expand amy vocabulary for my writings Finally atocoet not only Microsoft Word bat in other programs have ha a huge impact on my wring because his has allowed met be more eficint in my wrtng while il ean fom my mistakes. say it has made me more ficient ecause before auto cones you had to lok over every wordo ensure your speling was coret and now the computer does it for you, which s very efi Though technology kas impacted how I writs my voice and what Iam passionate about are really driven by my characteristics. ow Lam a a wtr all goes ack to who Tam a5. person. ike being ficient and finding reening to things tat thers may not ow, tying to explain te enknown. Baler in any esny soy mon wat quoted seying “1 dot know what you di te improve Hke you id but it worked and you have grownto be ine wie.” Wel improved because afer so many years "hecame fasted because when I woud try to explain my thought to thes and I ould not fava the ight words to explain hem, So started to read things I oud interests even resting in rating certain tent books had fr class I enjoyed. Malem Xn ks utobiography even expressed the same fing saying “became increasingly frstated, at not being able to express what Iwate o convey in ters that mot, special thse t Mr Elijah Mohammad G02" While Malcolm shared the same frustration I id about notCestions Works Cited ; pas Susan, Telephone interview. (9 \ low Do Socioeconomic Factors Affect Early Literacy?” HubPages N.p.28 Nov, 2008, Web. 22 Sept 2015 \ Kit, Sue Monk. Te Secret Lif of Bees. New York: Penguin 2003 rin. 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