September 2020

1. Adverse Childhood Experiences are types of neglect and abuse including parental mental illness, substance, and alcohol abuse. May include divorce, abuse, domestic violence, and incarnation of a parent. Toxic stresses are the response when the child has experienced this neglect and abuse “such as physical and or emotional abuse, chronic neglect, caregiver substance abuse or mental illness, exposure to violence, and/or the accumulated burdens of family economic hardship- without adequate adult support”. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/toxic-stress/#:~:text=Toxic%20stress%20response%20can%20occur%20when%20a%20child,burdens%20of%20family%20economic%20hardship%E2%80%94without%20adequate%20adult%20support.)
2. Adversities such as poverty, racism, and violence can affect the way a child grows up because of trauma. Trauma can affect a child’s development by their functions of thinking and perspective of the world. It may affect fundamental development in areas of language, mobility, physical and social skills, and managing emotions. May cause a decrease in their ability to learn at a fast pace or a child may be recommended treatment or therapy. It may lead to depression, anxiety, and, stress.
3. Since trauma and ACEs can affect a child’s development in the function of language, it may also affect their speech and language of writing.

1. Through research and help from her high school friends, Dr. Mona discovered that there were high levels of lead in residents’ homes. She also used hospital electronic medical records as data for her study. Dr.Mona saved lives by furthering her investigation with the effects the Flint, Michigan tap water had on people’s health. She also had helped the lives of people who were sick, easy access to the hospital in which she worked. Flint was a poor city and struggling. She worked there anyway and didn’t leave the city because she cared about helping the people of Flint.
2. My freshman year of high school, I was being bullied by a girl who was a year older than me. She had transferred that year and was new to the high school. She had a lot of friends already because she had a sister who already went to the school and cousins. There was tension between us because she was a sophomore on the JV girls basketball team and me and my best friend, Jordyn were freshmen on varsity. She had made several comments to us about how we didn’t deserve to b on the varsity team and how we probably wouldn’t play (she was wrong). She had a personal vendetta against me and went to social media and began making posts about me. Her, her sister and friends were posting things on their stories saying they were going to beat me up. As a freshman, I didn’t know what to do so I told my mom. A few days after, they continued. Until, my mom finally came to my school and told the assistant principal. Without me making it known to my mom, she wouldn’t have had it addressed the way it did. The bullying would’ve gotten worse.
3. To make the world a safe and better place, you could simply do personal hygiene, right now in the world, wear a mask, use hand sanitizer, social distance, recycle, not litter, etc. Simple things to help from making others sick and help the world from dying.

Literacy Sponsorship

Since I was little, literacy has been a part of my life. Of course, at a young age, I didn’t realize it. My mother was and still is very religious. It was taught to me that reading your bible and praying every night was important and almost essential for a child of God and follower of Christ. It became repetition and when I was old enough to read on my own, I read my bible till I fell asleep. My mother also read books of my choice. Disney princesses, Dr. Suess, “The very hungry caterpillar”, “A bad case of Stripes”, and so many more. I attended Cason Lane Academy in Murfreesboro, Tennessee from grades K-4th. The emphasis on learning by reading was big at my school. My teachers taught me that reading grew your knowledge and ability with words. Reading helped writing. As a first-grader, I always hoped my mom gave me enough money for the book fair (she never did). Still excited about all the endless possibilities and anxious for my class’ time slot, the book fair tempted us kids and personally, made me want all of the books there. I don’t know if I can say I have that same desire for books now but I try. My interests in books have changed, my knowledge from literature has expanded, and my ability to write with literary devices has peaked.

My familiarity with literature began in middle school. Major papers, essays, journals, narratives. My experience with literature, however, began with my mother. This classifies her as my first literacy sponsor. Deborah Brandt defines sponsor of literacy as “any agents, local or distant… who enable, support, teach, model as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy” (Brandt 73). When I was young, it was always a book presented to me and as I grew, I noticed the importance of literature through my mother’s work. She worked as a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner, including as the emergency department nurse manager for the Choctaw Health Center in Choctaw, Mississippi. Prior to her health care career, my mother worked as a detention officer for the Choctaw Police Department and as a Native Youth summer counselor in the Youth Opportunity Program for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. All the while she had a one-year-old, working two jobs and going to school. My mother holds an associate degree in nursing from Meridian Community College, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and a doctor of nursing practice degree from Vanderbilt University. She is now the Nashville Area Director for a government agency called Indian Health Service (IHS), serving 36 tribes from the Northern Woodlands (Maine) to the Everglades (Florida) to the Gulf Coast (Texas). IHS is a federal healthcare provider for American Indians and 3 Urban Indian healthcare programs located in Baltimore, Boston, and New York. As a part of her job description, Dr. Cotton writes policies, procedures, grants, and budget allocations for tribes monthly. I have seen first hand how much literature takes place in a job like that. It takes a lot of writing skills to provide leadership of a comprehensive federal, tribal, and urban Indian healthcare system. With a background in nursing, she had to learn the different varieties of language to use. As a nurse, it’s essential to learn “Standardized Nursing Language” (SNL): “a commonly-understood set of terms used to describe the clinical judgments involved in assessments (nursing diagnoses), along with the interventions, and the outcomes related to the documentation of nursing care”

(kb.nanda.org).

The high school journey through literacy was four rough years of learning how to utilize my resources, cite, use of diction, ideas, themes, language, grammar, and style. Filling me with knowledge and new tools to write my own story and prepare me for the next level of writing. I distinctly remember sophomore year of English class, I was introduced to Greek mythology, the elegant language of Shakespeare, different styles of writing, and presentation. It was most useful when writing personal narratives. Those were my favorites. Capable to share my stories and experiences of life with others was the peak of my writing ability.

With this literacy experience from my mother highlighted throughout my childhood, I am grateful for the resources I had and have. With the struggles through my literacy journey, I feel as though college will give me that literacy freedom we all long for. The ability to express my thoughts, thinking, and experiences through literature is a big accomplishment and my journey isn’t over. I will continue to grow and learn. For me, literacy is a way of identifying and relating myself to others as a necessity for my future occupation and life. Literacy holds power.

 

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	“What is literacy”? Of James Paul Gee
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	My initial reaction to Gee’s article was surprised with his definition of “disclosure”. He wants others to think of disclosure as, in his words, an “identity kit”. Think of it as something that gives you instructions on how to talk, speak, write and act. Gee’s informational youtube video helped me understand his message more. He is trying to advance the educational world by informing educators on the new possibilities of teaching. He uses video games as an example. He is apart of the older generation, the baby boomer generation, so he suggests that they don’t understand the world of technology and video games. The world of digital media is advancing and Gee suggests that digital media works like books and from what we know and learn, we can use. Gee didn’t know how to play a certain game so he read the manual. He then tells us how he played the game ”terribly” but, eventually he understood the game, looked back at the manual and couldn’t comprehend it anymore. Educators should either use digital media as a tool for better learning or improve their teachings to make learning more efficient and fun for kids to understand. Gee stated he couldn’t understand the manual after playing the game because he saw “an image, an action, an experience, a goal, a dialog” that fit the words in the manual. In other words, visual aid made possible by digital media and in particular, video games, can help allow kids to enjoy learning in new ways.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	-hierarchical -instantiate -trivialize
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It relates to a lot of the other readings we’ve read in class because it all relates to the different ways to improve learning.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	How would one specifically use disclosure in a modern way to learn?

 

Tuesday, September 1

 

9:41 am

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9 words

 to my sister

 

9:45 am

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to my friend

 

9:50 am

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11:12 am

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to my mother

 

11:40 am

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12:11 pm

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12:32 pm

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2:51 pm

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3:10 pm

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4:08 pm

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5:03 pm

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5:09 pm

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5:34pm

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6:34 pm

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6:45 pm

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7:03 pm

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7:05 pm

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9:01 pm

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9:06 pm

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9:47 pm

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1. I would say I am good at grammar and one thing I would want to improve is the way I write in context. Improve my writing in a way I prove my point in essays.
2. I like constructive criticism in a nice way. I don’t do well with people if I feel they are being rude. I’m comfortable with communicating often but not 24/7.
3. IDK
4. lgcotton@olemiss.edu
5. Yes.

Writing about my culture or race has always been a hard topic. I’m very prideful in my culture and who I am. My culture is a big part of my life and it makes me the person I am today. In elementary school, I moved from the south to Maryland, near D.C. It was a drastic change and throughout middle school, I struggled hard with my identity. People were so curious about my race, they couldn’t place me. I was a puzzle. White? White and Asian? Blasian? Biracial? Mixed. I’m American Indian. Both of my parents from Philadelphia, Mississippi. My family is apart of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. I struggled with my identity until my junior year of high school. It took me so long just to admit what my race/culture was. This made my writing very difficult when it came to writing personal narratives, which was a big part of my english experience. I often would try to make up things or write other people’s stories rather than my own. My freshman year of high school, I was featured on a three-part video series called “Ask a Native American Girl” for the very magazine, “Teen Vogue”. It is available to watch on youtube and still, to this day, people recognize me from the video. I was told some history teachers showed the video in class to prove the misconceptions of Native Americans. I relate so much to Kimberly’s twitter thread because some ignorant people still believe Native culture is a joke or something they believe is appropriate to make a costume out of. My rival high school my senior year was called the “Riverdale Warriors”, their cheerleaders wore headbands on their heads with a feather attached. At football games, their student section wore big headdresses with “war” paint on their faces. It’s racist and angers me. Now that I’m older and understand, appreciate my culture and embrace my culture and who I am.. I have no problem writing about how I identify.