Reading Journal Jones

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  Jones, Rebecca. “ Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother with Logic?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, 2010,156-159 & 166-168.  
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  What I got from this article is Rebecca Jones is trying to find a good phrase for arguing that does not sound like all arguing is doing is trying to defeat your opponent. She goes into detail of what a four-way argument could be and also states that there has to be primary line in your argument that everyone can agree on. I always thought arguing was indeed trying to prove your point and to defeat your opponent, so this article was very eye opening for me. However, I believe that the statement about arguing being like war was also relatable to others because many of us generally have the same idea of arguing. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

There were not any words that I could not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

 I can connect it to what I learned about ethos, pathos, and logos when it comes to writing rhetorical essays. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  What can you compare arguing to? 

 

Adverse Childhood Experiences

1. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stresses are traumas children endure and suffer through even into adulthood. I compare it to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Examples could be: physical, mental, verbal, or emotional abuse, the loss of a parent, a car accident, a bully, racism.

2. Adversities like poverty, racism, and violence could impact a child’s development mentally. They could grow up thinking that it is all they deserve, and start to settle into those adversities. Meaning that if a child grows up in poverty, all they are going to acquire is poverty life, and start to think they cannot go further than poverty life.

3. ACEs can affect literacy because the trauma children endure can affect their academic performance in school. Since ACEs heavily impact a child’s life, they can affect brain development like I said before. Studies show that children who endure these traumas has a poor performance in school. Violence can extremely affect the academic development and performance in a child, because all the child knows and think of is the abuse they receive.

What The Eyes Don’t See

1. Her passion for children’s health is what I believed heavily impacted the Flint community. The lead in the water could have effected the children of Flint’s cognitive and behavioral problems. She had to go and find undeniable proof, proof that even the government cannot brush aside or call it a hoax, to get Flint to get back to receiving clean and healthy water.

2. What I make people aware of  is African American people in the health system. I do not just mean how they are treated differently when it comes to medical attention, but the diseases they have compared to others. For example, my mother has sickle cell anemia; it is actually nicknamed the “brown skin disease” because only people of color can get this chronic illness. Just from what I have witnessed myself being in the hospital with my mom, if you put a sickle cell patient and a flu patient on the same floor, doctors and nurses would give the flu patient whatever medication they need, but with a sickle cell patient, they would reduce the amount of pain medications for them, and if they ask for more, they are considered drug seeking. I just think it is important that people, especially people of color, can see the difference of treatment between patients. Most people do not know that sickle cell month is actually in September. Why? People are not aware about sickle cell anemia the way they should be.

3. What I can do is do my part. I always take care of the Earth any way that I can when it comes to the environment. I pick up after myself, pick up an trash that I see on the ground, and with my church, once a week throughout the entire summer, we go around with our sticks, gloves, and trash bags and find any thing trash related on the ground in our area and pick it up to either put in the trash or recycle.

Reading Journal Murray

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  The Maker’s Eye by Donal Murray 

 

Murray, Donnald. The Maker’s Eye. Essay. Print
 

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  This essay is another easy read for me because I can relate to it. I have my own writing process when it comes to drafting because that is a way for me to be truly confident in my essay. In this article, Murray explains the different writing tools people use, whether its professional or amateur, and talks about his own writing process. I think it is important to have your own system that works for you when it comes to anything, because it benefits you and your work. Also, I agree when he says a good writer can take criticism.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

I could not find a term I did not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

I could not connect this to a reading I have read before or something that I have researched. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  What is your writing process when it comes to writing your draft? 

 

Reading Journal Murray

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  The Maker’s Eye by Donal Murray 

 

Murray, Donnald. The Maker’s Eye. Essay. Print
 

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  This essay is another easy read for me because I can relate to it. I have my own writing process when it comes to drafting because that is a way for me to be truly confident in my essay. In this article, Murray explains the different writing tools people use, whether its professional or amateur, and talks about his own writing process. I think it is important to have your own system that works for you when it comes to anything, because it benefits you and your work. Also, I agree when he says a good writer can take criticism.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

I could not find a term I did not recognize. 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

I could not connect this to a reading I have read before or something that I have researched. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  What is your writing process when it comes to writing your draft? 

 

Literacy/SoL Scene

1. Literacy, for me, is to be able to comprehend something. When it comes to literary essays, I always struggle with them because reading comprehension is not my strong suit.

2. My Standard of Learning is my mother. She read to me when I was younger and before I was born.

 

SoL Scene

The big, yellow bus drops off young Lindsey to her beaten down apartment in the Bronx. Her mother is working late, so her older brother has to watch her. When she gets home, she goes in the fridge, get her sliced apples her brother already prepared her, and sits at the table to start her homework. Lindsey was one of the smartest pupils in the second grade. She has to work hard, so she can be the first person in her family to go to college. It is a long ways from now, but she wants to make her mom happy. 

Mom is finally home at 7:00, and is preparing dinner for her two children. 

“Alright, Lindsey,” she starts, “go grab your book from your room for our daily read.” 

Lindsey was not exactly fond of daily reads, especially if it means missing an episode of The Backyardigans. However, she just keeps hearing her mother’s voice of hope that told her every night “you are going to be somebody, baby girl. You are going to make mommy so proud.” 

“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish,” Lindsey started. Her mom nodding her head to Lindsey’s rhythm of reading. Lindsey’s mother had a theory: if she reads to her daughter every night, and then have her daughter also read a little, a college could not tell her no when her daughter has straight A’s, 

Reading Journal Fishman

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  Literacy and Cultural Context: A Lesson from the Amish by Andrea R. Fishman 

 

Fisman, Andrea R. Literacy and Cultural Context: A Lesson from the Amish. Article. 842-854. Print.
 

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  This article is probably one of the easiest articles I have read so far. I could really understand it, and it made me interested in how other people learn literacy. Fishman starts with a scene of a big family having their time together, and the father reads his youngest son a book he picked out. It was very entertaining until Fishman broke down what was actually going on. How Eli’s literacy is taught through songs rather than actually reading a book. It just made me wonder how other culture view literacy and how do they go about it. This was interesting to read, and I could comprehend it better than previous articles I have read. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

 Redolent- takes up space, fills an area with 
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

 This just reminds me of reading about different cultures, and what is the norm for them.  
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  How was literacy taught in your household? 

 

24 Hour Writing Log

Tuesday, September 1 

12:52 am 

Picture on iMessage 

 “thought I should send this to you” 

To my best friend, Paige 

 

11:00 am 

Text on messages 

“did you take everything out of the shopping cart?” 

To my mommy 

 

11:02 am 

Picture on snapchat with text 

“gm strxs” 

To my snap friends 

 

12:14 pm 

Direct message on Instagram 

“2pac is literally gorgeous” 

To an Instagram friend 

 

12:15 pm 

Direct message on Instagram 

“where are you getting your next tattoo?” 

To a high school friend 

 

3:26 pm 

Text on iMessage 

“how many kittens are there????” 

To my grandma 

 

7:15 pm 

Text on snapchat 

“I am about to head to the Student Union” 

To a mini group chat 

 

8:43 pm 

Text on iMessage 

“9/11 is in ten days” 

To my best friend, Paige 

 

9:22 pm 

Picture on snapchat with text 

gn strxs” 

To my snap friends 

 

Wednesday, September 2 

12:09 am 

Text on iMessage 

“I might be staying home if people keep catching the rona” 

To my best friend, Paige 

 

1:39 am 

Direct message on Instagram 

“I am having a BBQ for Labor Day!!!” 

To my high school friend 

 

8:23 am 

Text on iMessage 

“dude look at the tiktok I just sent u” 

To my cousin 

 

8:34 am 

Picture on snapchat with text 

“gm strxs” 

To my snap friends 

 

10:34 am 

Text on Messages 

“I got to finish everything before today or tomorrow 

To my grandma 

 

12:44 pm 

Text on messages 

“I will call you later” 

To my mommy 

 

 

Reading Journal Gee

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page  What is Literacy? by James Gee 

 

Gee, James. What is Literacy? Chapter. 18-23. Print.
 

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words  This chapter was very interesting to read because it drew up many questions for me. This chapter takes on a journey on how James Gee defines literacy. He goes from defining discourses to defining learning and acquisitions to defining intimates.  It was interesting to read his views on learning and acquiring because it was the most I could relate to. I understood the difference between the two rather than all the discourse talk. I understood the discourses talk to an extent; when it got to primary and secondary discourses, I started to lose my track of mind. He then ends it off to what he thinks literacy means, and once I fully understand what discourses mean, I can really appreciate what his definition states.  
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. 

 

Acquisitions- “is a process of acquiring something subconsciously, by exposures to models and a process of trial and error, without a process of formal teaching.” 

 

Disclosures- “a socially accepted association among ways of using languages, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of socially meaningful group or “social network”” 

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? 

  

I honestly cannot connect it to anything that I have read.  
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  How would you define literacy, acquisition, and/or learning? 

 

Peer Resume

My name is Nadia Sumlar, and I am a freshmen at Ole Miss and in the FASTrack program. My strengths in writing really involves grammatical errors as far as commas; I was an editor for my school newspaper, so I am pretty good at that. What I would like to improve in writing are other grammatical errors that I do not see and sentence structure, where should I place sentences. I want as much feedback as I can get, because literary writing is not my strong suit, so I would like to get better at it. Even if my peer tells me my whole paper is trash, that will help me fix my mistakes and improve. I am a Ravenpuff, but I would like to say I fall more into the Ravenclaw house. My preferred email is my school email: nlsumlar@go.olemiss.edu. I am not choosing the Grade A option.