In this blog post I will be Reflecting on What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and creating found poetry trying to take out the meanings of the full readings for To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson), Our Discourse Community Values, and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda). What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) Reflection-
This writing is about a linguists named James Paul Gee who discuses different ways to define discourse and how the meaning could fluctuate. He talks about power and how using standard Academic language is the dominant discourse and can bring you closer to earning goods and resources with a better chance then if you are apart of the black vernacular discourse. Which is the language that most African American middle class-man used to use. Gee also talks about the difference between learning and acquiring. Learning is something that takes time because you are not around these things everyday and you're trying to learn to remember and use what you're learning properly. Acquiring is something you get from just being around it. Such as your first language.
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This blog is me showing the well being of my digital portfolio for this website. I will post a picture of a chart that my professor gave us to evaluate the well being of our website so that it is created to be the best that it can be to our ability.
In this blog post, I will focus on reflecting on some of the things I learned in my English 100 class. I will be sharing my opinion on what I have learned about my author identity, my theory of writing, my growth as a writer, and my knowledge transfer to future writing situations. Here is a link to a video I used to help me make my blog post. Reflective Writing
High concept: What is the major appeal of the story? What is at stake? My story is appealing because a lot of people can relate to it and it goes through many emotions that people go through every day.
What is the theme (meaning) of your story? The theme of my story is that you don’t always take an L just because you Lose. Sometimes when you lose you can take out more positive than negative. What goal are you struggling to achieve? I’m struggling to describe things better and allowing the readers to be right there in the story with me. I’m also struggling on the beginning of the story and bringing the readers right into the action. Lastly in struggling on the way in ending my story, I have to end my story with no context. How have you been transformed by the event? Back then nothing changed for me. I just knew I was sad and upset because of the loss. Now come to this present day that loss changed me because now that I see that you can get a positive and a lesson out of any loss or set back even if I'm down I look for the positive. Which techniques do you use to conduct you as a character with the audience? Feel sorry Show humanity Admiration I make my readers feel sorry because they can see how sad I am from the crying I do in my story. I show humanity a lot because I use a bunch if feelings and emotions that humans experience every day, so they can connect to the story somehow. In my story I lost a football game, but what if I didn’t lose and I won. I probably wouldn’t have learned the lesson from this situation that there are positive outcomes that come from negative situations. I probably would have never regretted some of the things I did during that season that possibly affected our chances of winning. I was the quarterback but kept telling coach to put me at wide receiver for recruiting reasons and now that I look back on it that was selfish because even though I scored and threw three touchdowns in the game we loss I was still rusty because I did not play a whole game or practice as a qb in three games. |
Javon Lindsey-TerrellHello, I am a student at Delaware County Community College in English 100 learning how to correctly write and analyze my own work to make sure it reaches certain criteria. Archives
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