1. Too shy to speak
How literacy changed me

2. Baby Steps
Step One

3. Baby and Adolescent years

4. Baby and Adolescent years
I was always crying if my mom wasn’t
around because I could never be
comfortable around other people

5. Elementary School
I didn’t have many friends because I
thought no one liked me… when really
I was too shy to open up

6. Baby Steps
Step two

7. YearsJunior High School

8. Social life became harder to deal
with
 More pressure to fit in and make
friends
 I became much more aware of how
shy I really was
 By the end of junior high
school…nothing changed

9. More Teen Years
High School

10. Freshman Year at Brockton High
School
1000+ more students +
being shy=
MISER
Y!

11. Sophomore Year
Everything Changed

12. MRS.NELSON
Sophomore Year

13. Mrs. Nelson
Our first assignment
Write an autobiography about
yourself an present it to the class
YIKES!!!!!!

14. The BIG day
I made sure I was the last to present. I
was extremely nervous!
My hands were shaking an I was a
wreck!
I took a deep breath and completed my
presentation

15. SUCCESS!!!!!!
Although that presentation alone didn’t
immediately change me but it was the
beginning of the new me!
With each and every assignment I
began to be more open and social in
the classroom as well as outside the
class
I no longer was
Too shy to speak

16. Work cited
 http://renee-
mentalimages.blogspot.com/2010/02/get
ting-real-and-being-cry-baby.html
 http://bobbillz.blogspot.com/search?upda
ted-max=2010-09-28T14%3A22%3A00-
04%3A00&max-results=10
 http://blog.mkf.org/2010/09/09/sharing-
stories-for-social-change/
 http://roehamptonstudent.com/news/inde
x.php?page=article&news_id=165593
 http://highwaytosuccess.unm.edu/