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  Breanna Little  Literacy History: Assignment 1  When it comes to literature, becoming more consistently literate grew to become an on-going goal of mine. I yearned to expand my word choice as well as my speech whenever I get the chance to. Recalling some early experiences, I can go as far as elementary school, learning cursive and penmanship. Learning nouns and adjectives, solely remembering how difficult it was to distinguish the two at the time. Constant sentence constructing exercise, and of course the spelling bees where the winner would receive a grand prize of a snack or homework pass. These memories would later set the foundation of my love for word construction. Later transitioning into middle school, annotating became a repetitive exercise, consisting of using context clues, finding main ideas, and supporting details for future essays. Annotating in particular however still sticks to me to this day. How prominent and stressful my teachers would implement and le...