Literacy Narrative

 

Interview with Matthew Raymond

-Mr. Raymond. to me, was my English 11 AP teacher and a huge factor in why I chose to pursue a degree in English. Even after his class, we remained close friends and still communicate once or twice every month. He was happy to participate.

• Try to think of your earliest reading and writing experiences. Who or what was involved in getting you started?

I recall spending the majority of my summers with my grandparents in Fort Lauderdale with my parents who were both school teachers and had the summers off. There, my grandma Abigail made sure that I never went to sleep  without a bedtime story. I remember being beyond excited each day and would many times pick the books to be read as soon as I awoke in the mornings. As for writing, it was when I began trying to write my own bedtime stories with poorly drawn pictures on each page of humans without torsos.