Intro to Literacy with my Grandparents.

What kinds of writing and reading did you see as you were growing up? 

Grandpa: My father stopped going to school in the fourth grade. I don't really remember seeing any reading and writing until I was in about the seventh grade. I read a Brave New World. I remember my brother always reading hot rod magazines, and that's what I always picked up and read. I wrote an essay on it in the seventh grade, and the teacher read it aloud to the class because she thought it was good. I remember feeling shocked. 
Grandma: My mother always was reading. She read everything from current events to whatever else she could get her hands on. My mother was a writer, and English was very dear to her. Speaking, writing, grammar was all things she pushed upon us to do correctly from a young age. She gave me Patty Reed's Doll, and a Lost World when I was 10 two books that I have kept all my life. My hand writing was also in the newspaper when I was young as an example of excellent writing.