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Kayla Farrell Concept of literacy sponsors Quote from Brandt – “Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy–and gain advantage by it in some way.” (Brandt 166) Quote from Farrell – Read More …
Blake Beverage – Here is an understanding annotation, as I understand the narrative track that Blake is aiming for, as he is describing his rise to success in becoming a better student. This is a text to text annotation, as I connect it to Williams texts and his idea of “Connecting to students parents”. Hannah Read More …
For the first category to look at in regards to literacy narratives, the most popular choice is the success narrative, as shown in the chart in Alexanders work. Success, focuses on the literacy rather than the individual, and this allows the writer to connect themselves to success in the past, present, or future by showing Read More …
Williams – Question Williams – Question Williams – Question Brandt – Question Brandt – Text to Text connection Brandt – Question Alexander – Connection to discourse Alexander – Connection to world Alexander – Understand Cheat Sheet
Delpit, Lisa. “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse .” Literacy – A Critical Sourcebook , edited by Ellen Cushman, Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, pp. 545–555. Jordan, June. “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan.” Harvard Educational Review, Aug. 1988, pp. 363–374. Gee, James Paul. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction Read More …
Coordination This is one of the main ideas of Gee’s, and conversely, one of the main things that Delpit disagrees with. It is a compound sentence because it uses a conjunction of and with a comma, and both parts of the sentence are equally important, with the idea of Gee being the first important Read More …
Original – In reading and analyzing the work of James Gee, June Jordan, and Lisa Delpit, all authors recognize the significance of discourse, and the impact that it has in many different aspects of an individual’s life. One specific aspect that relates to discourse that came up in all 3 works, was the topic of Read More …
I agree that we acquire primary discourse “by being a member of a primary socializing group”, as Gee says. I agree with this from my own personal experience, as the standard primary discourse of, for example, being part of the middle class, being part of a family, being a twin, etc. were all things that Read More …
The biggest concerns that I had when completing my draft was 1) Did I establish enough of my opinion instead of just using an opinion of one of the authors and 2) Did I organize my paper in a manner that was easy to read and one that made sense. To start with the opinion Read More …
This is a text to text annotation, connecting the text to itself, expanding it on how teachers can successfully teach what Gee calls “superficial features” of middle class discourse, and Susan taught and helped Marge learn a discourse relating to the middle class, educated, as well. This I pointed out as another text to text Read More …
