Month: January 2018

Return to your LN sketch from another perspective.  Work up a 400-600 word version.  Be prepared to share in groups next class.  (What did you notice?)

I noticed a lot of different traits and other little things in the literacy narratives that I read and also from reading my own from in a different perspective. From the other literacy narratives I read, I picked up on how much most of them were all about me. By this I mean most of the narratives were blaming other people when the real person to put the blame on was there self. I say this because I was able to connect to just about every story on a personal level. For example, one story was about how a english teacher was very hard on this student in particular. Like most people I have had teachers who have seemed to be extra hard on me for some reason that I didn’t understand until later in life. In life there are going to be people who are hard on you because they know that life isn’t fair and, that colleges don’t care if you missed a deadline because “you forgot about it “. These students need to understand that these teachers were so hard on them because they didn’t want to set them up for failure. I personally didn’t understand this until my football coach my freshman year explained it to me. He told me that the other coaches were hard on me because they believed in me and knew I was destined for greatness. Just like a coach a teacher owes there students the same level of expectation from them and to believe them as well. After reading my own personal literacy narrative I started to understand the reasoning to why my Dad made me read the dictionary with him every night in the third grade. He did it to show me the importance of reading and writing and to take it seriously and learn persicatance. He also did it to have quality bonding time with me. As I look back it now it he was killing multiple birds with one stone while doing this which I think is extremely important to learn in life and parenting too. I think overall if the students that wrote about bad experiences with reading or writing should look back and deeply think on why it was so bad. Was it the teacher or assignment or was it you making it harder for yourself ? Once they come to an understanding about it I believe there whole perspective on life will change.

Journal # 3:

1) Summarize the essential points Williams is making in this article including capturing key terms. (150-200 words)

 

Williams explains that he uses literacy narratives as a tool to gain better understanding of his students. He does this to see what students have had good experiences with reading and writing and what students did not. Williams uses the feedback he gets from the narratives to shape the structure of the course. Williams points out the fact that most students have problems with identity when writing literacy narratives. The part on shifting identities gives a great explanation on how a students identity shifts from being the hero to being the problem and why they might struggle in the first place. Research has shown that the exercises that have been created to help students find an identity do in fact work and if you are having a hard time finding one they should try a couple of them.  

 

Q: What might your literacy narrative look like from another perspective? (50)  Q: Why might this perspective shifting be beneficial for articulating and understanding our own identities? (50)  Return to your literacy narrative and sketch out the narrative from the perspective of another character. (100)

 

My literacy narrative would look like from another person’s perspective as a growth and success story. I believe this due to the nature of the narrative, it is about me reading the dictionary with my Dad everynight in the third grade and how I was quizzed on the words I learned. Not only is it a success story it’s a story about a father and his son having bonding time. Shifting perspective of the story can be beneficial to understanding it because, I look at it now as quality time with my dad instead of it being a punishment like it did when it was going on. In addition to that I can see and understand the reasoning behind doing it in the first place. This is important not only because it will help me grow as a reader and writer but will also help me appreciate the little things in life more.

 raise 10 questions about the stories archived in Rising Cairn (read more if need be). Curiosity, inquiry, these are the sails we need to fill to move forward here.

 

Why did you accept that particular person as a mentor ?

Did you ever have any doubts in your mentor ?

Do you think your life would be different if you never met that mentor and if you would of been able to accomplish what you did without them?

How is your relationship with your mentor today? Have you ever thanked them for what they did ?

The advice and mentorship you were giving for that situation can it be used with other problems that might occur in your lifetime ?

In some mentorships the mentor can learn more from the apprentice than the apprentice does. Do you think this applies to your story ?

What made you pick this time in your life ?

Are there things that you learned long after the problem happened ?

Since you were guided thought that situation. Do you think you could mentor someone else going through a similar situation?

Why was this situation so difficult for you ?

 

 

Where does their thinking start?  Where do they end up?  How did they get there?  What sources do they turn to for answers?

 

Their thinking starts with a big question like about philosophy or science with asking a big question it allows the Brain to open up more and start thinking in more depth. They can end up anywhere from asking a broad question. Since the question is broad it allows everyone to be able to think about it and to have multiple opinions. Abumrad and Krulwich use experts in the questions they ask but they don’t always agree with them and they might think different than what the experts have to say.

Things I noticed about the narratives I chose is that they all gave me the ability to understand them as a person.  Yes I understand that these are all Personal Narratives but these ones in particular didn’t come off as a fake story, these narratives gave me a heartwarming connection and seemed to be 100% honest. In some narratives reading and writing wasn’t easy for some, in others it came natural by the end of each narrative they all came to a understanding that reading, writing and learning are a key to success. In every narrative theres a Turing point. It can be a book they read as a kid or a teacher that supported them, but at every Turing point they started to understand the importance of learning.  The tags for the narratives are right on the ball and tie in well with the writing. I don’t believe there is a limit to their accuracy due to the fact that they are personal narratives and each story is different from one another.