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Hansen 1 Jayde Hansen Engl 1101 Hinnant 12 Sept 2013

"Jayde! Can you ever listen to music and not sing?!" were the words I remember directly from my older cousin as we were getting out of the car on a warm summer evening from a long ride through the city. There was not one song on the radio that I didn't catch on to quick and sing my heart out to. I just loved music! Ever since I can remember I've been singing in my spare time, singing on the choir, dancing to music, listening to music, etc. Growing up, music has been the one thing that has kept me sane and in my right mind. The fact that music is universal and there are many different kinds that it can appeal to many people around the world. Music has become a part of me and very well affects my reading and writing. From writing poetry in songs, to writing biographies on musical artist my writing and reading is affected by music. From as long as I can remember I have always had a passion for music. Remembering back to when I first began to really sing and talk fluently, I would sing songs as well as write my own songs. To me, writing and singing songs brought a sense of freedom. Music began to take me to another realm and writing my own music genuinely helped me to express myself. My love for music began to show through school activities as well as religious activities. At the age of six, I was so grateful that I was picked to perform during my elementary schools Black History Show. I performed in my first on stage show for Black History Month. During this show I had to read about African American artists, as well as perform Stop in the name of love by The Supremes. This is one of the first activities that brought me out of my shell, and showed my love for music. In school if I had a free write I would always write about my love for singing and listening to music. I would have assignments where I would have to pick any

Hansen 2 book from the library and write a biography on them. I would always pick a musician because I was interested in how they began singing and how they made it to a famous musical artist. Not only did the music I listened to affect my writing, it also began helping me to write. Music began to help me concentrate and write my papers better. Listening to music seemed to help my papers flow better and helped me to be able to jot down every idea that I have. I first discovered that music helped me with my writing when I began to write in a personal journal when I was younger. I use to write all of my feelings out in one little journal and listening to music just seemed to help me regurgitate all of my feelings and emotions and put them unto paper. Unlike my enjoyment of writing, I didnt enjoy reading too much as a child, although reading about music and musicians gave me life. My love for music grew so much that I actually began to read music. At a young age I began to take piano lessons. It just so happen that the same lady, who attended my church, was the same lady who taught piano lessons at my community elementary school. At this stage in my life, I began to be able to read music fluently. Reading music brought a sense of enjoyment and arousing curiosity. After taking piano lessons once a week, for a couple months, I began to practice on Saturdays during choir rehearsal at my church. Not only did I sing hymnals at my church, I began playing music for the congregation as well. These community and religious involvements definitely changed the way I began to read and write. My love for music didnt just stop there; I also began singing with one of my closest friends and doing talent shows. I began to become really engaged in something that I loved and I surrounded myself in it. Music can also have an effect on the way we analyze things when we read novels and any type of story. Music can have an effect on our perception and the way we think about things. The music we listen to begins to be what we think about a lot of the time without even knowing it. Think about it, how many times do you go throughout the day just singing songs that pop up in your head out of nowhere? Same thing with the way we analyze things that we read and determine how we feel about them.

Hansen 3 Music I would have to say has the greatest effect on me verbally. The music I listen to shows my personality and how I feel on the inside. The reason I would say music has the greatest effect on me verbally is because there are plenty of times I catch myself quoting song lyrics, or relating my life to lyrics of a song. Speech is the most common method of communication during todays society so what you listen to really matters. For instance, the song Yolo by Drake, theres times when people go day to day and use that phrase because theyve heard it in the song. This affects the way someone thinks about their day. Yolo means you only live once, which gives the idea to enjoy life in the moment and in the now. I honestly think if someone used that quote to go day to day, they might have a more adventurous and easy going day. As well as the direct message, the grammar in songs begins to affect how you talk and what you say. What you say begins to affect your writing as well as the way you pronounce things reflect on how you write and the way you say it. Whether you know it or not this has a great effect on the outcome of things that you have to write. Not only does it affect the outcome of my writing, I feel as though music also has an effect on the tone that I write as well. For example, listening to certain music while you free-write can ultimately put you in that vibe and set the tone with the whole paper. All in all music has a great effect on my reading, writing, and verbal speech. These three affect the things what I do in life more than I would think. Without music I feel as though I wouldnt have been as anxious to read and write because music was that force that pushed me to want to express myself verbally and through writing. Growing up music was always my motivation to read and write. Anytime I had a paper I had to write about, or I had to pick a reading, I would always choose music because I knew that it would strike my interest the most and also help me to enjoy reading and writing. Without the force of music behind me, I honestly dont think I would have been as motivated as I was to even engage in reading and writing.

Hansen 4 Jayde, Theres a lot of really good stuff in here! I can tell that youve spent a lot of time critically thinking about how music has affected your reading, writing, and verbal communication and I think that overall you make strong connections. My advice, though, is that you really work on backing up those connections with personal experiences and examples. There were several points throughout where I couldnt tell if you were telling me how music affected YOUR literacy, or how it affects the general populations literacy. Remember that this is YOUR narrative, and I (as the reader) am most interested in hearing all about your personal experiences. Definitely push yourself to expand in the portions that Ive marked, and keep pushing yourself to dig even deeper into musics relation to your literacy. I know you can do it!

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