Due Wednesday, Sept 6 by 9am in Blackboard is homework titled Introduction to Literacy Narrative :
Read the following chapters in the online text Writing Handbook and Guide Introduction, Identity and Expression, Literacy Narrative Trailblazer: Tara Westover, and 3.3 Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative and answer the following questions:
In the Introduction, what are some important/key points, terms, phrases or ideas that you think are important for the rest of the chapter AND what do they mean (list at least 3)?
Describe what is meant by the term "idolect" and describe ways that you have your own idolect/cultures/communities.
In the sections Language and Identity and Expressing Identity in Writing, the authors discuss how as you navigate different rhetorical situations you make "communication choices based on different settings and audiences, you signal your identity and culture through word choice, sentence structure, and use of language in specific situations." What are some examples of when you switch back and forth between different modes of communication/vocabulary/languages depending on the audience and purpose of your communication? What are some new linguistic identities you might acquire in college?
And finally, answer all of the Discussion Questions listed after Tara Westover's Literacy Narrative
Discussion Questions
1 . What are some of the literacies that Westover learned while living at home? How might they conflict with the new ones learned away from home?
2 . How might literacy learning have the potential both to separate and to unite individuals and their communities?
3 . Do you think the Westovers with PhDs are more “literate” than the ones who remained at home? Explain your answer.
4 . How are literacy and gaining new literacies related? Ambition? Desire for knowledge? Rebellion? Dissatisfaction? Explain your answer.
5 . How do your childhood literacy experiences align with Westover’s? How do they differ?
6 . At this point in your college experience, have you had any encounters with ideas that conflict with the value system(s) with which you were raised, as Westover did? How do you envision navigating those differences?