Literacy to me is not only being able to read and write, but to be able to do it freely. Being literate freely is to be able to randomly write anything such as a paragraph about your day. Literacy is also more than just being able to read and write freely. In my opinion, literacy includes being able to have a conversation/communicating with another person verbally or even by sign language.
One of my literacy sponsors would definitely have to be my high school career technical education (CTE) sewing teacher. While her main objective was to teach her students how to sew in the sewing lab or even at our desks, Mrs. Lipscomb taught us how to communicate and connect with our peers. I went to a decently small high school with around 800 students coming from two different cities, with many cultures. Often times in our school, there was division due to the simple fact half of the school went to K-8th so clicks had already been made. Mrs. Lipscomb had our class do what she called “Love Circles”. In these love circles, we not only built our self confidence as a person, but built relationships with our peers we most likely would have never reached out to as we had thought there was no way to undo the division. The connections and conversations made in those love circles not only created many friendships, it also evolved many students literacy. In elaboration to our love circles, everyday on the way to our desk we were given fellow classmates name to write a short letter to. These letters revealed lots of similarities between the split division. The letters I received taught me that although you may be surrounded by people with different lifestyles with different cultures, we all go through different hardships to achieve our success. Those love circles forced me to evolve my ability to communicate with my peers by letters and verbally.