Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
It was a calm Wednesday morning in my small town High School. The sound of faint chattering among peers echoed through the room before the start of my AP Literature and Composition course. We had just began our poetry section, something I had always despised. Immediately the task of reading and ripping apart the poem … Continue reading Self Initiated Learning
After immigrating to the United States from Italy when she was just sixteen, my grandmother’s life has been nothing short of extraordinary. To me, the most beautiful story out of all that encompasses her journey is the love story between her and my grandfather, who was also Italian. On December 17th, 2016, I … Continue reading It [history] enables an older generation to pass its literacy resources onto another
Emma Duncan English 101 5 October 2018 My Mother Changed my “Rising Standard of Literacy” I was twelve years old, during a windy day sometime in the fall of 2012, so cloudy and cold that it actually might have been winter. Around me there were parents with their children, teenagers hoping for a free cinch bag … Continue reading My Mother Changed my “Rising Standard of Literacy”
It was a dark stormy grey cloud filled day. In the middle of November 2016. My teacher Mr. Mayden was standing in front of the class informing us about the timed write we were about to take. I was sitting in wooden desk relaxing eating a granola bar that my friend Haley brought me. It … Continue reading “People throughout history have acquired literacy programmatically”
I’d never really considered myself good at writing before, nor did I enjoy writing. I would even go as far as to say I use to dread it. Writing was always just a part of school that I had to do in order to get a good grade, it was never something I really cared about improving … Continue reading “Figures Who … Smooth the Way for Initiates”
When I turned 13, the dreaded and anxiety provoking time had arrive. It was time to start studying for my Bat Mitzvah. I had multiple sponsors who essentially forced me to learn how to read Hebrew, although that makes it sound rather dramatic. But it was true, growing up in a reform Jewish household, not … Continue reading New Generation of Learners
The clock finally hit 6 o’clock. 6 o’clock meant work was over for mom and it was my time to get help with my reading. I grabbed my tattered book, ran down the hall and jumped onto the huge bed and squeezed right next to mom. Tonight, we would venture into new territory: Junie B. … Continue reading Sponsors are powerful figures who bank-roll events or smooth the way
“Literacy as a resource becomes available to ordinary people largely through the meditations of more powerful sponsors.” A powerful sponsor in my life showed me the power of reading a book. Something I will remember and carry with me for the rest of my life. The first book that made me cry was … Continue reading Literary Narrative: How the death of a spider taught me the power of a book
Embodied Moments of Literacy Learning It was a typical Sunday afternoon, post-dinner that had been abundant with cousins and aunts and uncles alike. Dinners could regularly be found with twenty or so people, with the majority being kids my age. I was seven years old and was exhausted from the hour of play with my cousins, … Continue reading Literacy-Narrative
As a group of 30 sixth graders walk timidly through the long hallways of the elementary school, heading towards the band room, I stand somewhere near the back, as per usual when lined up by alphabetical order. We arrive indoors after a brisk moment of standing in the rain, the sudden warmth touching our eager, … Continue reading “…sponsors deliver the ideological freight that must be borne for access to what they have.”
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