ASSIGNMENT: LITERACY NARRATIVE
For this first major assignment, you will create a Literacy Narrative.
Objectives
Use writing strategies for brainstorming and drafting an essay.
Synthesize information from multiple texts.
Voice original ideas; think critically.
Critique and evaluate peers’ work through peer reviews.
Revise, edit, and proofread.
SLO
Practice active reading strategies with a variety of texts
Develop and organize various types of support for main ideas
Integrate and document source material
Create expository texts suitable for various academic and real-world purposes that exhibit audience awareness, unity, coherence, sufficient development, and adequate control of Standard English conventions
Guiding Questions:
Does our past predict our future?
Can education really change us?
What purpose does education serve for us?
DIRECTIONS
Write your Literacy Narrative using Microsoft Office Word on your dcc email (save to your ENGL 110 folder) Your literacy narrative should be around 600 words (going over is fine)
A literacy narrative is the story of how you learned something significant about yourself as a reader and writer. Write your literacy narrative.
Think about the following:
What is your current attitude toward reading/writing?
What are your beliefs about yourself as a reader/writer?
What happened in the past to make you have that attitude or those beliefs?
What experiences were most significant?
What obstacles have you encountered (and perhaps overcome) in learning to read or write?
What are your most vivid memories of reading or writing?
What unexpected problems with learning to read or write have you encountered in school?
What issues have arisen from: learning a second language? being bilingual? speaking a nonstandard dialect? having a speech or hearing impediment or a learning disability?
What teachers or mentors have helped or hindered your development as a literate person?
To help you create your Literacy Narrative:
Read/View/Listen and annotate these texts:
Alexie “Superman and Me”Links to an external site.
“Survey: Self-Doubt Is A Barrier to College” pages 380-382
“Laziness Does Not Exist: But Unseen Barriers Do” pages 389-393.
“Brainology” Download “Brainology”
“Impact of Poverty” Download Impact of Poverty”
Vamba Sherif “Where is Home?” https://youtu.be/c0mVa7d08tgLinks to an external site.
“Identity and Belonging Themes and Ideas” https://youtu.be/fpesndjLDRYLinks to an external site.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “The danger of a single story”: https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg
And consider the following:
your family’s attitude toward reading/writing;
your own reading/writing experiences in and out of school;
what you remember about learning to read/write;
what successes or failures you have had connected to reading/writing;
a particular book that had an impact on you;
your reading/writing strengths; and
your reading/writing weaknesses.
Participate in the writing process with your colleagues.
Participate in the writing process with a coach in the Writing Center
Submit your polished draft to the professor for guidance during office hours.
Submit your Final draft to Canvas on April 6th
Evaluation
Your final draft should include references (quotes) to one or more of the texts we reviewed:
Alexie “Superman and Me”Links to an external site.
“Survey: Self-Doubt Is A Barrier to College” pages 380-382
“Laziness Does Not Exist: But Unseen Barriers Do” pages 389-393.
“Brainology” Download “Brainology”
“Impact of Poverty” Download “Impact of Poverty”
Vamba Sherif “Where is Home?” https://youtu.be/c0mVa7d08tgLinks to an external site.
“Identity and Belonging Themes and Ideas” https://youtu.be/fpesndjLDRYLinks to an external site.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “The danger of a single story”: https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zegLinks to an external site.
Your final draft should adhere to MLA essay format and have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion, and should be at least 600 words of polished prose. Most of your essays will be longer than 600 words!
