Literacy Narrative Analysis (Tuesday)

Literacy Narrative Analysis

Group #1 - "Write or Wrong Identity" by Emily Vallowe (Chapter 10 pg. 1)

Group #2 - "Rebel Music" by Daniel Felsenfeld (Chapter 10 pg. 7)

Group #3 - "Automotive Literacy" by Ana-Jamileh Kassfy (Chapter 10 pg. 10)

Group #4 - "The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Group #5 - "Fortunate Traveler" by Suresh Canagarajah

Group #6 - "Literacy of a Farm" by Hannah Wilmarth

Directions:

For this assignment, you are to analyze one of the literacy narratives you read/watched for today. In groups, answer the following questions and be prepared to share your answers with the class. Only one person per group needs to submit responses to the questions.

1. Who is in your group?
2. Which literacy narrative are you analyzing?
3. Summarize the literacy narrative. What is it about?
4. How would you describe the writing style of the literacy narrative?
5. What literacy (literacies) does the author discuss?
6. Why do you think the author chose to focus on this literacy?
7. How did the author acquire this literacy?
8. How did the literacy impact the author and the author's identity?
9. What is the positionality (race, gender, sex, economic background, educational history, etc.) of the author? Is it discussed? If so, how does it impact the narrative as a whole? If not, would it benefit the narrative?
10. How did the social and material circumstances of the author shape their literacies?
11. What did the author learn by the end of their narrative? Is their learning clear?
12. What did you learn from this literacy narrative?
13. Do you consider this to be a successful literacy narrative? Why or why not?