I can still remember that fight and how it all started. It wasn't your typical fight over some girl or because I got that person in trouble, but because of miscommunication due to different languages. Now by different languages I mean slang of course, but also this wasn't the only time this kind of event happened in my new school. In previous years of high school, when I attended Spring-Ford, language skills were a must, you were always reminded to make sure you used proper English. Now when I changed schools to Pottstown, language skills were still very important but you were not hounded as much to make sure everything was correct. But a weird thing that occurred to me is that I had to relearn all the catch phrases and slang at this new school, and also learn that different words could relate to many things.

After giving you that brief background, I can now tell you that in my paper, I will discuss why changing schools is like learning a completely new language. I will also discuss how it can affect ones ability to go from making minimal errors to many, also how this can screw up a person's literacy levels. I will incorporate into my paper, some views from Mike Rose's piece, "Crossing Boundaries," and either Min-Zhan Lu, or Theodore Sizer as a second reference. I will discuss where I believe they why coming from and also tie into why my paper is important to a discussion of literacy and why if some were to start reading from the middle of the paper, they would be understand why this is important to them and also to a discussion of literacy.