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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams.
Watching older sister record herself reading books.
First grade reading circles.
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class.

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1. Disney movies (any Disney movie or show, I watched them all).
2. Fusion Dance Project (Dance studio that I attended for 5+ years)
3. Baby-Sitters Club Book Series!
4. My mother( went to Great America!)
5. Playing dress up games on the family computer

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1) My grandparents who were refugees

2) Authur (the show)

3) My friends I've known since Middle School

4) The book First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

5) Forrest Gump

6) My high school

7) Growing up in a Buddhist and Christian household

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- Parents
-PBS Kids
-Buddhist Temple
-Volleyball coach
-Spanish Class
-ASB
-Milpitas Library
-Youtube channels
-Managers at job and job training videos
-Hip hop music growing up
-Freshmen year English teacher (worst teacher)
-Middle school english teacher (favorite teacher)
-Kumon

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- My dad and his passion for fantasy books

- My genius, brother, Robin (I'm talking Young Sheldon level so I'm trying to be smart like him)

- The Little Einstein's show

- English teachers, Mrs. Helenschmiddt and Mrs. Perez

-The book Fahrenheit 451 and author background

- The Magic Tree House event at my local public library

-Movie series stemming from books

- Dungeons and Dragons/ ttrpg's

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1. My fifth grade teacher Mrs. Mckinney

3. Kumon

4. My friends back home

5. Golf tournaments and being apart of a team

6.My brother

7.writing tutor

8.korean school

9.blues clues

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- My parents and all they've accomplished
-My grandpa (was like a second father to me)
- My sister (role model)
- My High School English teacher Ms. Murphy
- My best friend who helped me learn English
- Self-help books, Milk and Honey (quotes)
- Growing up in Guatemala
- Learning how to speak and write English
- Journaling

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- My older sister - gave me advice about the classes she took and was a role model to me

- Shakespeare Club in elementary school - learned to read more complex and old texts

- Translating important documents for my immigrant family at a young age - English to Spanish

- My parents - always supported my academics and me - supplied me with books, library trips, and more

- Kids Shows - Disney, Dora, PBS Kids

- English Honors class

- AP Spanish

- My friends - knowing how to speak two different languages at once (Spanish or English)

- My Catholic church - I was a TA here for young kids

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1. My parents (read to me and encouraged me to read)
2. My older sister (loves to read and I would always see her read)
3. My cousin (was always reading)
4. Anime (many subtitles helped me learn to read faster)
6. Twilight (the movies encouraged me to read the books)
7. The Vampire Diaries (encouraged me to broaden my vocabulary)

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- My parents who are immigrants

- My High school Ap Lang teacher

- Sesame Street

- Dora de Explora

- The Islamic religion

- My friends

- My sister

- Sid the science kid

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1. My parents who taught me how to read in Spanish(my native language)
2. My brother who always gives me advice and is the smartest person I know and look up to
3. Dora the explorer
4.PBS Kids
5. YouTubers
6.Harry potter
7.Sesame Street
8. My best friend

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1. My cousin; He helps me know some basic words and sentences.

2. My primary school teachers; They teach me and let me know all aspects of knowledge.

3. My third-year primary school Chinese teacher; She is so strict that when I made mistakes, she punished me to copy long texts from texts books for many times. This promote me to have a negative perspective toward Chinese courses and writing texts (a negative literacy sponsor.

4. My mother; I totally refused to learn English at school and she taught me at home and my English skill and ability improved in a rapid speed. My classmates was confused how I become so “proficient” at English from a person who now nearly nothing about it.

5. My middle school

6. My high school; where I gain international education

7. TOEFL learning institution

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- My parents who taught me how to be a better writer (encouraged me to read an hour each day)
- Freshmen year English Teacher
- Documentaries on different aspects of science and history
- My older brother ( enticed me to read higher level books )
- San Francisco Library (spent a lot of my summer there)

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1) Bill Nye the Science Guy (elementary school)
2) National Geographic
3) Schoolhouse Rock
4) Jacob Clifford (AP Economics Youtuber)
5) My High School English Teacher, Ms. Johnson
6) Dr. Redding (my all-state honor choir conductor)
7) My senior year classmates (peer learning almost every week)
8) Congressional campaign staff I worked with during the pandemic

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1. My mother(she taught me how to speak spanish)
2. My childhood town's public library(would go there every week to get a new book and to do my schoolwork)
3. PBS Kids
4. My women's literature teacher that I had in my junior year of high school
5. Subtitles/Captions(I always have them on when I watch a movie/show)
6. The Glass Castle book
7. Translating for my parents from English to Spanish
8. Hunger Game book trilogy
9. Starfall (an educational website we would always use during computer lab in elementary)

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- 11th grade English teacher
- Growing up around only Russian-speaking family
- My bat mitzvah
- Visiting my parents' works as a kid
- Handy Manny
- PBS Kids
- High School Stage Crew
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Personal self-reflection
- Doing theater/dance for 14+ years

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1. Nickelodeon shows (Dora the Explorer, Bubble Guppies, Spongebob Squarepants, Team Umizoomi)

2. My older sister, Laura (who got me into reading romance books)

3. My English teachers (Mr. Anaya, Mr. Lopez, Mrs. Rivera, Ms. Frankel) and my Spanish teacher (Mr. Torreslopez)

4. Cesar Chavez Library

5. Romance books

6. Scary Story books

7. The Horoscope section in the Spanish magazines my parents would get from the store.

8. True Crime

9. Jane Austen 🙏

10.Any PBS kids show (Sesame Street, Arthur, Martha Speaks, Wild Kratts, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Thomas & Friends, Bob The Builder, Curios George, Super Why!, Barney & Friends, Dinosaur Train, Cyberchase, Clifford, Ruff Ruffman)

11. All of my elementary school teachers (They had goals for us that once we achieved them, we would get prices)

12. Ali Hazelwood (one of the best romance book authors out there)

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-Mrs. Logan-Hay

-Homie David Morell

-Herr Huggins

-Youtubers (Chuggaconroy, NCS, and ZackScottGames)

-Chicago Fire Soccer

-South Bend, Indiana Playgroup

-Lil Uzi Vert

-Mom

-Novels I read in Elementary School (Origami Yoda)

-One Piece and Hunter x Hunter

-Those animated kids movies (Disney and Dreamworks)

-Media (Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter)

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1. Parents
2. Native language speakers
3. Dora the Explorer
4. Robert Kiyosaki
5. Mr. Schreiber (English/CDM High School Teacher)
6. Ms. O (Spanish High School Teacher)
7. Ms. Weathers (History High School Teacher)
8. Mr. Walton (Bio/Psychology High School Teacher)
9. The Infographics Show (YouTube)
10. Spanish Speaking Friends
11. Donut (YouTube)
12. Fitment Industries (YouTube)
13. Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
14. Eiichiro Oda
15. Neil deGrasse Tyson
16. Grandparents
17. Bill Nye the Science Guy
18. Akira Toriyama
19. Hayao Miyazaki
20. Car enthusiasts