Jonah+F+Letter

  Dear Humanities 6 Classmates, Come and join me, Jonah while I share with you my reading and writing life, what I like, and what I don’t like to read and write about. Everywhere I turn I see reading in my house, for example, seeing my Mom or Dad reading an article, or my brothers reading humongous books. My house is a big book with many different pages inside. Some we have and some we are still exploring. On the other hand, we are not the biggest writing family. If I see writing, it’s me doing homework, or my brothers writing stories on the computer. I’ve read many different books. I mostly read action, adventure, and mystery books. Most of the books I read are for me, but sometimes I read to others, my cousins, and maybe my younger brothers. The first time I can remember reading is with my parents helping me with ** // BOB Books // **. One of my favorite book series is the ** // Sacred Book Series // ** by David Michael Slater. I enjoyed them because I could never put those books down. They just had me wondering. Although I enjoy reading books in English, sometimes I also read books in Hebrew. I enjoy many of the books I read, but some of them just bore me out of my mind. One of the books that I would not have wanted to read was ** // Children of the Longhouse // **. I just couldn’t dive into that book like I could with others. I also don’t like dramatic books or just historic books. I find slow books extremely challenging for me. I like fast paced books because they don’t keep me reading about a broken arm for 5 or so pages. My favorite place to read is either curled up in my bed before lights out, or on my big red couch. Reading always calms me down, whether I’m angry or sad. Reading is a chocolate chip of my cookie life, and writing is the dough that I shape it with. Writing isn’t a part of my life like reading is. I just can’t sit with a pencil and paper like I could with a book. When I think of writing, my mind explodes with information, detail, and a storyline. Sometimes I know how to get it down on paper, and sometimes I don’t even know how to put it in words. When I have to write, I enjoy writing little stories. I don’t enjoy writing poems. I don’t know why. Poetry doesn’t speak to me very well. My best piece of writing is actually a poem called “Cookie to Milk”. When I was writing that poem, I felt the voice of poetry in my ears. I also don’t enjoy writing about books that I read. When I have to write a book report; then I have to note lots of things about the story. It distracts me from the plot, even though I’m paying closer attention when I’m reporting about it. When I write, I like to sit comfortably in a drop dead silence room because it’s hard for me to concentrate with a lot of noise. It takes me off of my train of thought. I hope to make writing a bigger and better part of my life. I don’t know how, but I will succeed. Well, my classmates, that is the end of my wonderful reading and writing life. I have shared with you good and bad times of reading and writing. Your fellow classmate, Jonah