Tasnimud Tanzid, Week 3, Reading Responses(09/08/21)

1. How have anxiety and aversion been barriers to your writing in the past, and what is one way you plan to adopt Eickmeyer’s skills and strategies in writing your literacy narrative?

Anxiety and aversion have been barriers to my writing in the past as I always set unrealistic things for my writing. There are two problems to set unrealistic goals. One it interrupts me to focus on my topic. Second, it creates anxiety in me about how to make an unrealistic setting to reality.  However, the strategy I can write in my literacy narrative is to spend five or ten minutes reading the assignment and focus on the content of my assignment as mentioned on page 23. As a result, it helps to focus on my topic and helps to think very deeply about reality. Once I catch the way I will write my essay through realistically then it maybe help me to remove the barriers between anxiety and aversion. Also, I will try to use the Break it Down strategy to portray my whole concept. As a result, it will help me to think more deeply about the topic and make me relieved.

2. Thinking of Ku’s example literacy narrative (written while a freshman at Baruch), what are two worlds you exist between? Describe a moment where those worlds met, collided, or pulled you in different directions.

According to Ku’s example, the two worlds I exist between Bengali- American. Growing up in a third-world country of Asia, I always felt comfortable meeting with my own community’s people. But sometimes reality pushed a person to leave their comfort zone. When I immigrated to New York and was admitted to high school, I started to meet with different diverse students where a majority of the student of my high school students either Hispanic or Chineseesse. It was a moment when I have no friends in my freshman year. But later after few months, I joined different types of clubs such as the Robotics club, soccer club, and student government. Then I started making new friends with different communities. Besides, I made a bunch of friends in my neighborhood where the majority was Bengali. Since then, I have had a lot of Hispanic friends as well as Bengali where I played Basketball with my Hispanic friends and cricket with my Bengali friends. This is the point where my worlds met and that helps me to get out of my comfort zone and take advantage of every opportunity that would be available for me.