Rodriguez described his experience in great detail.   He described himself as a good student.  He was eager to learn and was very successful in completing his work.  However he described himself as a very anxious student.   When it comes to reading he described himself as bookish.   He would have stacks of books from the library and he would be found reading them everywhere.  His father even found him reading in a closet one day.  He describes school as something that distanced him from his family which  was sad.  He even said “he takes his first step toward academic success, away from his family.”  Part of his success I believe came with his attitude toward his schooling.  When he was told to read something he would read it.   He also found himself participating in the classroom.

Neither of his parents had very much schooling.  He describes how he got frustrated with his father when he tried to help with his arithmetic homework.  Schooling must have been very difficult with having limited access to help.  He did have siblings that went to school that could have helped him but they seemed to just make fun of Rodriguez calling him four eyes.  His journey to becoming literate was much different than mine.   When I needed help figuring something out I could just ask my mom.  He did not have access to the same helpful resources that I had.

He uses a large range of vocabulary in his article.   Also his style of writing is easy/interesting to read.   Its not quite like the scholarly article that we read for last class.  

           He speaks Spanish as well as English.  His first language that he learned was Spanish and through schooling he was able to improve his English.  He was proud when one of his teachers told him that he had almost lost all traces of his Spanish accent.