Writing Project One: Literacy Narrative
For our first writing project you will be writing a Literacy Narrative. Literacy narratives tell the story of a time in your life when you learned how to become a part of a community via acquiring and mastering knowledge of its language and customs. You will be choosing a community important in your life and describe the time where you learned to become literate in that community.
In order to pass, your writing project must:
1. Be 3-4 pages minimum in length. Anything less than 3 and you are starting at a D.
2. Include-
· Introduction paragraph where you hook the interest of your reader and explain the exigency (pressing need or importance) of this community in your life.
· A definition of literacy and explain how your narrative is an example of literacy (mastery).
· As listed in Section 3.3 Glance at the Genre: The Literacy Narrative of your Writer’s Handbook text, a good story covers the following key elements: plot, characters, setting, problem and resolution, and a story arc. Your narrative must include these elements.
· As part of becoming literate in the community, you must cover the challenges of learning to be literate in this community (your problem and resolution), must cover language and customs (attire, behavior, history of community), and must have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
· Must also include the term “idiolect” as part of your becoming literate (how did learning the language of the community affect the way you speak and communicate). This would be a great way to incorporate vivid and interesting vocabulary, phrases, and accents/ways of speaking distinctive to this community.
· What benefits did becoming literate in this community have on your life? How has becoming literate in this community affected your personal identity? At least 3.
3. Include use of vivid and descriptive language when recalling events and characters.
4. Include one credible, reliable outside source that helps to bring depth and support to your experience. From this source, you must include one direct quote and one indirect quote.
5. Be in MLA format (we will learn how to do this the final week of editing).