Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
Sponsors Can Help You or Make You Help Yourself Max Tacher Tor Samuelsen English 101 The most prominent aspect of our collage is the background. The peaceful view is a reflection of how both of our sponsors ultimately impacted us in the end, allowing us to find peace in literature. One of our sponsors changed … Continue reading Sponsors Can Help You or Make You Help Yourself
Head in hand I sit there, hands and face covered in grease and grime as I stare blankly at the mess that is my project car. An iron block resting on the engine crane with a pile parts beside it, when assembled the block and parts will provide me with a complete motor for my … Continue reading Engines of Profit
Skills To Earn a Living Being literate in today’s culture plays a huge role in your life and can influence your success, whether that’s in your job, school, or relationships. In Deborah Brandt’s essay “Sponsors of Literacy” she state’s, “As print and it’s spinoffs have entered virtually every sphere of life, people have grown increasingly … Continue reading Skills to Earn a Living
It was September 6th, 2016, the first day of junior year of high school. I entered my AP English class around one o’ clock with twenty-five other of my now graduated class mates. When I entered the classroom, you could feel the nervousness and excitement swirling around the room. As more kids came into the … Continue reading “demand for literacy achievement”
I’ve always been a really shy kid. In elementary school, I considered my teachers to be better friends than any of my peers. I stayed in from recess almost every day because I preferred to hang out with my teachers rather than try and fit in with all the other kids. My favorite elementary school … Continue reading “The apprentices’ experience invites rumination upon literacy learning and teaching today”
I remember that moment being one of the most embarrassing feelings. One that crushes your ambitions and makes you feel totally incapable of doing something that you once felt confident about. I had been the top of my English class in sixth grade, always the example for good work and fast pace learning, but I … Continue reading Literacy learning-from benign sharing between adults and youths
On a small desk wedged between my bunk bed and the door to my room, lies a little purple diary. Outside the trees brush my window and the skies are a somber gray. I sit at my desk where I face blank white walls, look back at my dresser to see a black collared shirt … Continue reading Literacy Learning Throughout History has Always Required Permission
Tor Samuelsen English 101 Every day was bad. Usually we would work all day, sweating and covered in dirt. My boss would yell at us constantly, never letting up and grinding his directions into us. Nothing we ever did was good enough and everything was never done as quickly as he wanted. Doing construction … Continue reading Sponsors, as we ordinarily think of them, are powerful figures
My family goes on an annual backpacking trip in the summer. In 2018, we went into the wilderness surrounding Mount Rainier on a trail known as the Wonderland Trail. It is ninety miles of steep hills covered in Douglas Firs and beautiful reflective lakes sitting at the bottom of flowered valleys. Even through the stunning beauty … Continue reading “benign sharing between adults and youth”
Elijah Breslauer English 101 10/2/18 “Powerful Figures… Who Smooth The Way For Initiates” (Brant 4) It was a classic Sunday in rainy Seattle; cloudy, dewy with a hint of rain on the near horizon. I was feeling especially lazy. I had been procrastinating about this paramount essay for months. It was finally time … Continue reading Powerful Figures… Who Smooth The Way For Initiates