To Prepare for Writing:
· In this section of the class, we will read several essays about how language and literacy can have a significant impact on how we see ourselves and the world around us.
· Think about your own relationship with literacy, read the essays we are discussing as a class and connect them to your own experience. Perhaps you might even do some research or reading on related issues.
· Read, and if you wish and it seems appropriate, quote or reference other texts that connect to this issues you are discussing.
Writing Task: Write a narrative essay of 4-5 pages in which you re-tell and analyze an event or a series of events that shaped your relationship with language and literacy. (Remember, our definition of "literacy" is very broad.) Your essay should both narrate the events (tell the story) and discuss their significance to your development as a reader/writer /literate person. Your essay should also incorporate some of the important ideas from one or more of the readings we have done and connect them to your own experience.