“Exploring Ourselves”
Assignment:
Explore one of your experiences with language or literacy and how it has affected you. In your narrative, dramatize this experience and reflect upon its significance/impact in your life.
Ultimately, your narrative should show a unique insight about the function, effect, and/or importance of language or literacy in your life.
Steps:
- Identify a literacy experience to write about. Some ideas:
· An experience as either a child or adult learning a language or developing another skill.
· An influential person/event that helped or hurt your progress toward being a writer, using language, or becoming part of a group.
· Analyze cultural attitudes toward literacy/reading/writing and explore how you have navigated some of those.
· Discuss how you communicate with other “experts” – other people who share your literacy.
- Brainstorm important ideas and interesting details from your experience. Some questions to consider:
· What background information should your reader know?
· What details will help make this narrative more interesting?
· What was the outcome of this experience?