After reviewing the Washington post I was able to find a few issues I am looking foreword to following throughout the semester. The first issue I am the most interested in is the travel ban in place by Trump. I have been keeping in touch with the ban since I found out it is effecting … [Read more…]
Throughout the week I found I asked the most questions while being in class or in the library. While I’ m learning I find that my brain is more active. When I say active I mean that its more engaged, so it allows me to be more creative. Most of the time I would be … [Read more…]
The last literacy narrative I read was “Blank Screen” by Meghan Mazzocchi. Mazzocchi describes how she feels during the beginning stages of writing a paper. As a reader you will soon realize that her main issue is finding what to write about, “After spending hours of starting the same sentence over and over again getting … [Read more…]
While reading through Rising Cairn I came across “Live or Die” by Paige Hibbard her Literacy Narrative reminded me a lot of a family member of mine so I could relate a lot. Her story relates a lot to Dora Lopez from the Brandts reading, a girl that has no support for higher education at … [Read more…]
In rising Cairn another literacy narrative that I could related to was “Eighth Grade English” by Carolina Dimler, she was able to answer or make sense of the question I had about sponsorship. In Brandt it states “Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, … [Read more…]
While reading through a couple literacy narratives posted to Rising Cairn this one caught my eye first. This narrative “Education in Africa” by Cassie Waters brought light to one of the questions I made in a previous assignment. The question I stated was based off of the Alexander reading from when she talks about how … [Read more…]
Even’s : 2. A conventional story is described as a “Narrative that assumes the more literate one is the more, successful he or she will be” (Alexander 609). What Alexander is implying is that society has this image that students need to be successful in literacy to become successful in the real world, or as … [Read more…]
While annotating Alexander I found the common themes that have been discussed in both Gee and Brandt. When I saw a cross text relation I highlighted it in orange and explained why it related to the texted. I also did some chunky when needed. Chunky is great when a chunk of text is explaining the … [Read more…]
One of Brandts main point is that printmaking is a key to literacy development. This is because while the apprentice would be in process of printmaking they would be applying the reading and writing skills needed to be successful. Brandts paradox is formed when she discusses her love hate relationship with the production of printers. … [Read more…]
Above are my annotations for Sponsors of Literacy by Brandt. Throughout the reading I found that the method of color coding was the most helpful. My main focus was trying to understand her concepts and apply them to Gee’s concepts. I did that by using the color green. When I though that a concept of Brandts … [Read more…]
