Original: Sponsors are an unavoidable aspect of literacy, as one cannot simply learn anything by themselves, but rather has to follow in the footsteps of another. Further on in Brandt’s article on sponsorship, she explains that “most of the time… literacy takes its shape from the interests of its sponsors. And… obligations toward one’s sponsors … [Read more…]
My essay focused on, and based on peer comments and discussion they agree with or are able to see the point, the idea that I agree with how both identity shifts and sponsorship works, but I also added that sponsors create identity shifts and identity shifts are what give literacy narratives, stories, memories, and people … [Read more…]
**I did my worksheet on the computer** Paragraph 1 Another scholar who delves into the expansive mystery of the study of literacy narratives is Bronwyn T Williams, who in his journal article “Heroes, Rebels, and Victims: Student Identities in Literacy Narratives” discusses several different aspects of them. One of these concepts that Williams goes into … [Read more…]
Identity Shifts – What I have chosen to focus on in this project is the significance and impact of identity shifts in literacy narratives. I feel this is a very key part and gives stories meaning. From good-to-bad, to bad-to-good, to bad-good-bad I am going to go over several of them and delve into them. … [Read more…]
Cali woods – literacy 1.2.2 Hannah Clark – The year I started to Hate Writing Jack DuPont – Parental Advisory Evan Dodge – the Rollercoaster
Kayla Student’s views of teachers When Williams talks about how important a student’s view on their teacher is, whether it be positive or negative, and the impact on their writing. In Kayla’s story about how her teacher “never wanted to be there” and “only gave criticism”. In this instance it shows the extreme dislike Kayla … [Read more…]
Kayla This is a classic example of the “victim” identity, putting the blame on someone else. Once again reinforcing the victim motif. I feel it is important to keep the thread going throughout the length of the story. Sam I thought it was interesting how very contradictory Sam’s experience was from Kayla’s. Later in this … [Read more…]
1st response: In his piece, Brandy explains the several roles a sponsor plays in the literacy of those that they sponsored. In my own literacy narrative I explained how my teacher gave me a bad grade in my freshman year of high school. I explained how she did not like my elongated writing style and … [Read more…]
Alexander: I noticed this connection about how we were talking in class about how kids do work and writing simply for good grades and not to develop or learn. I related this piece to how our only half out class wrote about positive literacy experiences. Although I thought that probably most of them made a … [Read more…]
Introduction – I did not do a whole lot for my introductory paragraph in my revision. I spent a lot of time on it the first time around and I introduced properly my ideas of Gee’s discourse, Haas’ experiment with Scientific Discourse, and Gee’s Seven building tasks. The only changes I did make were slight … [Read more…]
