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Too shy to speak How literacy changed me

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Too shy to speakHow literacy changed me

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Baby Steps Step One

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Baby and Adolescent years

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Baby and Adolescent yearsI was always crying if my mom

wasn’t around because I could never be comfortable around other people

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Elementary SchoolI didn’t have many friends because

I thought no one liked me… when really I was too shy to open up

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Baby StepsStep two

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Teen YearsJunior High School

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Social life became harder to deal with

More pressure to fit in and make friends

I became much more aware of how shy I really was

By the end of junior high school…nothing changed

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More Teen Years

High School

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Freshman Year at Brockton High School

1000+ more students + being shy=

MISERY!

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Sophomore Year

Everything Changed

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MRS.NELSONSophomore Year

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Mrs. NelsonOur first assignment

Write an autobiography about yourself an present it to the class

YIKES!!!!!!

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The BIG dayI made sure I was the last to

present. I was extremely nervous!

My hands were shaking an I was a wreck!

I took a deep breath and completed my presentation

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SUCCESS!!!!!!Although that presentation alone

didn’t immediately change me but it was the beginning of the new me!

With each and every assignment I began to be more open and social in the classroom as well as outside the class

I no longer wasToo shy to speak