Hello, my name is Iliana I’m a freshman at CCNY majoring in psychology. A little bit of my experience with english language arts in my school experience, I grew up in a hispanic household, although my mom can understand and speak some english we had a strict rule of no english in the house only spanish. I learned english in preschool and I don’t remember struggling learning the language but my mom would tell me I’d come home crying because I couldn’t understand anything but now I am very comfortable writing and speaking the language, even my thoughts are mainly in english.

I didn’t struggle with language arts during elementary/middle school I always did really good and I used to write 5-8 page stories of my own and summaries/reviews of movies I liked. Right in the beginning of highschool I found myself struggling to do the assignments, to read the passages, write summaries I felt burned out and uniterested for some reason with language arts especially in the beginning of the pandemic I struggled a lot doing my work because I felt trapped in my home I couldn’t bring myself to sit down and focus but near my last year of highschool and beginning of freshamn year I started to feel my interest and love for ela come back. I learned how to write outlines that would help me write my essays, how to manage my time to turn in the assignments on the due dates and what exactly to look for in an article. I feel like I did really good with annotation and summaries near the end of highschool since in the majority of my essays I was able to use my annotations and summaries to help me create a good introduction, topics, and what other details or sources I needed to look for. 

I plan on using the skills I mastered in this class to help me look for a specific topic that will interest me with the annotations I made in the sources I found if I feel like I want to write about something else and to be able to summarize really long passages into something shorter yet informational at the same time.

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