Educational Narrative Blog Post

To begin the story of my spelling epiphany I will have to go back to the fourth grade in room 227. My teacher, Ms. Betkey was an avid writer and always told the class how important it is to be able to write. Every chance she got, she would make a reference to writing! She made us keep journals, write stories, use full sentences and take weekly vocabulary quizzes. Being only nine years old and not enjoying these daunting tasks, I tended to not put forth as much effort as I should have primarily with regards to the weekly vocabulary quizzes. I didn’t study because I didn’t find it important and it heavily reflected in my test scores and assignments! Nine years later as I reflect upon my decision I regret it, but choose to learn from my mistakes. Going through the rest of elementary, middle and high school I constantly contradicted my nine year old ways, fortunately! It was hard to do because I needed to catch up and it caused some anxiety when writing in front of others but I did it. This long experience did affirm the importance Ms. Betkey stressed on writing and more specifically spelling. In this example, it isn’t what I learned in school but what I realized or the epiphany I had in what my teacher had taught me after having not agreed with it. When writing the final for this paper I plan on describing a specific incident that occurred during class with regards to this topic in order to support my point.