My fourth grade teacher was the first memorable one for me. He was so funny, but I was the only one who seemed to catch his jokes in class, so I always always laughing and everyone else just always seemed bored and lost. I was reading Ender's Game for the first time and he helped explain some of the plot to me that I was mixed up about (because I was ten) and encouraged me to enter my first spelling bee and helped critique me on stories and entered a piece of my work into a writer's conference. I felt like he was the first teacher who ever noticed and appreciated the work that I did and he really helped me grow more to love reading than I did already.

My sixth grade teacher was an amazing, incredibly strong woman. She was supposedly the strictest teacher in school and nobody wanted to willfully be placed in her class but once we were all there, our class couldn't have been better. She really shapened us up for a "real world" in junior high and taught us how to behave like human beings because she treated us like human beings, not like children. I also don't think I've ever read as many books with a class as I did with her - we were always reading something and she had us memorize poetry and record journal entries. Just an overall really great teacher who I appreciated and I wish I would have had more like her - maybe I would have been motivated to go to school more than I did later on.