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.
