September 2020

1. An adverse childhood experience or ACE is a traumatic or scarring event which happened in one’s childhood that affects them long term or for the rest of their life. Typically, it is caused by parental abuse, neglect, or divorce.
2. Violence, poverty, and racism can lead into traumatic events that cause adverse childhood experiences. Poverty can lead to the child not having basic needs such as food or shelter, violence can be parental physical abuse or a traumatic injury at a young age. Racism can affect a child by making them victims of hate crimes, racial violence, or the realization that racism and discrimination exists in today’s world.
3. Adverse childhood experiences could affect literacy by changing the child’s worldview or affecting their ability to learn literacy. The child’s worldview could be changed by racism, which could change the way they interpret literature. Poverty could affect the child’s learning of literacy by restricting the availability of good education and sponsors of literacy.

1. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha brought awareness and helped solve the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. She helped the public drink clean water after the government changed the city’s water source to the polluted Flint river. After about a month and a half, the city of flint applied water filters to the river. Dr. Mona published a study which garnered national attention, which made the city of Flint receive federal funding and ensured the end to this crisis.
2. Yes one time I helped my buddy out by telling him to pull up his fly when it was down. Now that’s what the eyes don’t see.
3. I believe that if we all step up when there is a problem instead of being bystanders we can help the people for the greater good. Obviously that doesn’t happen often in the real world because people are more driven by helping themselves with money and leisure than helping others. There are some people who would rather help other people than have money or leisure, but it is not common.

1. Literacy to me is first the ability to read and write. Second, the ability to understand what the words mean on a deeper level. For example, understanding the story and knowing the purpose of the words on the page.
2. One of my sponsors of literacy is my Junior year American Literature long term substitute teacher, Dr. Stiles. We did a lot of reading in that class, and he really helped me understand the importance and significance of many novels.
3. I was walking into my American Literature classroom once again, as I said hello to Dr. Stiles as usual. He was my favorite teacher that year because of how normal and down to earth he was. He was not afraid to make jokes in the class at a student’s expense, knowing that the particular student would be fine with it. He was a young and intelligent man with a great sense of humor. At the time, we were reading The Great Gatsby. Honestly, I liked the movie better, but the few pages of the book I actually read were okay. Dr. Stiles made me want to read those pages with how he described the different instances of imagery and foreshadowing that F. Scott Fitzgerald carefully planted in the novel. Dr. Stiles described the green light and the hot day very well to us, which gave me more understanding of how to interpret novels and see the different literary elements the author put into them. The reason Dr. Stiles is my most memorable sponsor of literacy is not because he taught me how to read, but because he taught me how to read.

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