Graves Autobiographical Prompts

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1. Please submit a 2 paragraph summary of your notes from the Graves’ autobiographical prompts in the course notes.
INVITATION: Think of anything you know how to do well and try to recapture the event of learning itself. Make a list of these learning events to get a sense of how you learn.
One thing that I know how to do well is throwing a baseball. When I think back on how I learned to throw I immediately think of why I wanted to learn in the first place. I wanted to learn to throw because my father was huge fan of baseball and he instilled that same passion in me. If you don’t want to learn something, you won’t. I can remember when I was growing up my father and I played catch in the front yard often. He showed me how to throw and
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