| Title：Rebel Reader |
The reason I chose this talk to be my topic is that I had so similar experience on the process of learning literacy as the speaker. I still remember, on my 7th grade, there was one of my Chinese text tells about the story of the Battle of Waterloo. As I mentioned at class, Napoleon is one of my models whose bravery and perseverance deeply impacted me when I felt low. Well, back to the class. Because the text was just a story, our teacher didn't treat it importantly and told us to read by ourselves. What she focused on were only writing and new words. Luckily, I was seating on the last line of the classroom so that my teacher could never found my little secret: I borrowed a biography of Napoleon from the school library. So, after that Chinese class, as long as my teacher started to focused on new words, I would open the book and sunk myself into the battle field and palaces. Learn from the words and sentences, as well as learning how to describe real life more authentically.
However, my secret was finally found by my teacher and she told this thing to my mother. I was so nervous to be back to home and dared to look at her eyes. But my mother did not blame me anything about the reading. She just asked me if I really founded in reading books, I nodded. Beyond my expectation, she took out several history books from her back and told me that those books were the mission for that semester and I had to finish reading them before the vacation. I was so excited. What my mother have done not only saved my passion on reading books but also developed my interest on history. Since then, I read for something everyday, as long as I have some spare time, I would open a book or my Iphone and started to read. Ironically, although I spent a lot of time on reading, I still get a high score of my Chinese exam.
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