Personal Experience
I do not remember when I learned how to write, but I do remember the teachers and the subject matter that made me think and made me want to write what I was thinking. Throughout my formal school education, it was my English teachers who truly amazed me for it was they who taught me the tools I needed to write. In high school I had a magnificent teacher named Mr. Dawson. I was fortunate enough to have him as my English teacher in my first year of high school. He was a big burly Irish man with red hair and a very soft voice. We read The Lord of the Flies, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Catcher in the Rye, Shakespeare, and scores of others great pieces of literature. Mr. Dawson was similar to Mr. Keating played by Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. He made characters come to life and helped us to see how the struggles characters go through in literature are the same ones that people struggle with from day to day. He was so passionate about the literature we read that it was contagious. We wanted to read more and write about what we were reading.Mr. Dawson also loved film and public speaking. His classroom was covered with old movie posters. His favorite hobby was to go into New York City, to one of the bi
Dawson not only took an interest in my writing, but in that five minutes when my sonnet was being read, helped me build the confidence to see that I should take an interest in my writing as well and that I should share it with others because I had something to offer. However it was the tools: the reassurance, the reminders about practicing, the conferencing, the publishing, and most of all, the time he took that taught us how to write and to make us want to take it to the next level. I remember working so hard on this assignment, making sure I had the right amount of syllables, lines, and rhymes. This set up was very different than any other class I had been in in the past. Perhaps I liked the subject matter, and in turn wanted to write. Aside from being an excellent teacher he was also a great confidence booster. I remember conferencing with him; he would sit back and do a lot of listening. If I felt lost he would offer suggestions, but more than anything he acted as a writing coach for me. He would push us saying, "Keep writing, explore that idea further, what do you mean by that, what are you trying to say?" Just as my athletic coaches in the past had reminded me "practice makes perfect", Mr. He also loved watching the Golden Globes and the Oscars and we would spend a lot of time critiquing how the actors and actresses spoke, and what they were wearing. Dawson had not told me he was going to read it and I felt like it was the first time someone noticed my writing and published it in a sense. Very often he'd use the Golden Globes and the Oscars as writing pieces in class. He'd talk about how the theater was set up, what the carpet looked like, how comfortable the seats were, and of course, how incredible the movie was.
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