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My Personal Reading Journey Timeline

The document provides instructions for a personal reading history assignment. Students are asked to create a timeline chronicling their reading history from childhood to present day, including 8 texts they have read and reflecting on how each impacted them. For each text, students must include a picture representation, a written reflection, and their age when reading it. They must also include a concluding paragraph reflection answering questions about influential reading experiences, how they were encouraged or discouraged as readers, and what they learned about themselves through the assignment. The final product must be in color and proofread.

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My Personal Reading Journey Timeline

The document provides instructions for a personal reading history assignment. Students are asked to create a timeline chronicling their reading history from childhood to present day, including 8 texts they have read and reflecting on how each impacted them. For each text, students must include a picture representation, a written reflection, and their age when reading it. They must also include a concluding paragraph reflection answering questions about influential reading experiences, how they were encouraged or discouraged as readers, and what they learned about themselves through the assignment. The final product must be in color and proofread.

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Personal Reading History Assignment

Today, we're going to take a trip back through your life as a reader. In your mind,
put aside the reading you're doing for school and go to a place where you have
positive feelings about reading.

You are going to be creating timelines chronicling your reading history. First,
you will need to brainstorm and draft your history in Part 1, My History as a
Reader, and then you will use your draft to create a polished piece that reflects
who you are as a reader.

In your final timeline, you should include all types of experiences with reading
that have shaped who you are as readers today and illustrate the timeline using
meaningful images, such as book cover art for favorite books, photos of
characters or readers who have inspired you, elements of locations that you have
visited or would like to visit, etc.

REQUIREMENTS:
 Represent 8 texts that you have read over the course of your life.
o You can choose texts from any point in your life; just make sure
that they have had some impact on you. Start at your early
childhood, maybe with a book your parents read to you, and trace
your reading history all the way up to present day.
o Make sure you correctly punctuate each text and include the TITLE
and AUTHOR
o For each text you must include:
 A picture representing that text (this can be a symbol, book
cover, etc.)
 A written reflection explaining how this text impacted you
(how it changed your world view, how it helped you through
a tough time, etc.) Record what was memorable about the
text, whether it be positive or negative.
 An estimate of the age you were when you read the text
 When you finish your timeline, you must include a paragraph
reflection (6-8 complete sentences) answering the following
questions: What reading experiences have been most influential in your
life? How were you encouraged and discouraged to become a reader?
What did you learn about yourself by creating your timeline? Do you
consider yourself "literate"? Why or why not? By what definition? Is it
important to you to be "literate"? Why or why not?
 The final product must be in COLOR and proofread!

Selections of this assignment taken from: The New York Times Learning Network Blog
Name: Fitri Wulandari Date: Thursday 30 April 2020

My History as a Reader
Part 1: Use the prompts below to reflect on your history as a reader.

Books I loved as a child is “The lion and The Mouse”

Memories I have of seeing somebody read:

People I remember who loved to read:

People who read to me when I was little: My Father

Books I loved reading in school: Short Story

Books I hated reading in school: Some novels

Books I have read on my own and enjoyed:

Literary characters I connect to:

Books that have captured my imagination:

Books and/or writers I am interested in, but haven’t yet read:

Books I pretended to read or understand:

Other types of reading materials I read and enjoy:

Other memories I have about books and reading:

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