| 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.
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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?
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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? |