Reading Journal
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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Gee, James. “What Is Literacy.” Http://Jamespaulgee.com/Pdfs/Gee%20What%20is%20Literacy.Pdf, 1989.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words In the story, the author mainly talks about a linguists and it goes into further detail about a linguists. He also gets into detail about different types of literacy and how we as people use literacy in different ways. He continues to discuss how it affects humans and society as a whole. I have noticed that everyone doesn’t use literacy in the same way. The articles continue to conversation about the many contrasting people using literacy in many contrasting places and how we also use different languages. Lastly, the article talked about how we chose things to attain and objectives we’ve learned in class. To many people, you will become more fluent with the language you’ve grown prone to your whole life instead of a language you’ve just found about yesterday.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
Linguists- a person skilled in foreign languages. “It is a piece of folk wisdom that part of what linguists do is define words.”
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
This reading connects with other readings i’ve read because they all are some sort of literature.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. What is the purpose of Literacy?