Experience #1 Writing/Composition- Senior Year HS

Nothing teaches you writing and composition quite like a traumatic story about trying to get emancipated from your parents. Long story short, when I was in high school my parents were going through a really interesting and tough divorce. This divorce left me and my siblings very lost in the world and I ended up needing to be removed from the toxicity that was going on within the family. Because of this separation, it made things like attending doctors appointments, and getting medicine that I used monthly very difficult unless I was to get legally separated from my parents, so that is exactly what I did. This was something that I never ended up completing but instead took a different route and none the less I ended up learning a lot about the legal system as well as how to compose lots of technical papers and professional writings. Because of this experience I learned how to professionally introduce myself, fill out paperwork, and write personal statements. To use this experience in my classroom I would never ever tell my students the story, but I would educate them on how certain situations require certain types of writing. Something else that I learned during this process was that different legal papers also require different sized papers, which is also a fun thing that I could educate my students on. Overall I think this experience could be turned into a really cool lesson that would teach my students things that