EDRG 3344 - Narrative

This is only a rough draft so I don't think its that great ye and its not finished, but here is what I got so far.

Reading has never been one of my favorite past times. If I did read a book I always preferred to read one of the "easy" books that I thought would entertain me.Either that or I would just read any book that was cool at the moment, never trying anything new or different. The year I went to the fifth grade changed my opinion of reading and what it could do for me. This is the year that taught me to love reading and if I was willing to venture out of my comfort zone reading would open my eyes to old and new adventures.

My teacher in fifth grade was Mrs. Nelson. During the school year Mrs. Nelson taught us about classic and contemporary literature and some of their characteristics. Of course I found the contemporary literature to be more interesting than classic literature. I also thought that contemporary literature would be easier to understand and that it would be easier to relate to more modern stories. My friends and I also thought that it would just be boring to read any kind of classic literature.

When Mrs. Nelson told the class that were were going to start reading some books we all thought for sure that she would have us read contemporary literature. Imagine our surprise when she told us that she was going to have us read some classic literature instead. My classmates and I all thought she was crazy. How could she honestly expect us to read, enjoy, and understand classic literature. It seemed like something completely different from the way we were living. She told us that we would be reading a book by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and that it was about a boy named Thomas Sawyer and the mischief and adventures he gets into with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Even so, I still didn't think that I could relate to the story, sure it was about kids but it was set in a completely different time period than the one we were living in. How could I possibly relate to or understand the characters or anything that was happening in the story.