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ACEs – Sept 18th

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  1. ACE stands for adverse childhood experiences which are traumatic events that are often negative which play major effect into the child’s overall well being. Toxic stress refers to stressed caused my traumatic events in life. Both of these can come from events such as child physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, as well as child neglect.
  2. Adversities such as poverty can impact a child’s development by lack of proper nutrition and health care. Violence can play a role in a child’s development by creating mental health issues causing higher chances of more mental issues. Racism can cause behavioral and mental health issues. All adversities can impact a child’s development in many ways including increasing the risk of attempt suicide.
  3. ACE’s can affect literacy due to the mental damage that can be caused which can affect one’s ability to focus and learn. It can also have a major impact on a child’s access to resources such as a library.

What the Eyes Don’t See

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  1. Dr. Mona saw a issue in the community of Flint where she was a supervising physician. While the issue had direct affect on Dr. Mona’s patients whom she has a strong love for as she states most physicians do, it also affected the community as a whole. The issue was the water wasn’t safe for consumption, so Dr. Mona took action to fix the problem.
  2. I went to a predominantly white school. My senior year, me and several of my classmates decided enough was enough when it came to who won homecoming. It was always white females from the same popular group every year. It was never a person of color. So me and my homeroom classmates teamed up to spread the word to vote for my friend Jauria a person of color because she was the most beautiful person in our grade inside and out. Jauria ended up winning homecoming queen, becoming the first African American Queen in our schools homecoming/coming home history. Since then, a person of color has been in every running.
  3. Posting credible things on social media is a good way to educate society as social media spreads the word about issues the quickest. Bringing awareness to issues within society and the world, can make the world safer. Especially when it comes to minorities in the world right now, for example black trans need all the support and awareness they can get brought to  with the hate being tossed around in the world.

Reading Journal- Murray

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Murray, Donald M. “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” [The Writer, 1973.] The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 86-90. Print.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words I never realized how much pre-writing goes into professional writing, so to hear the first draft is really just to get ideas is honestly insane to me. Murray talks about how most writers revise by page rather by draft but every writer truly has their own process. Revision comes natural to most writers so they do it along the way yet multiple revisions occur throughout the piece. Some writers never even have to write because they are able to do all drafts in their head. The fact that things are sent to be published with frustration because a piece of writing is never finished, astonishes me because when things are published, mass majority of people will think it is perfectly written. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Nuance- A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.

 

The concept that a piece of writing is never finished.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

  It sort of connected to an article I read my senior year about careers not always being seen as a tedious job, but as self improvement each time. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.  Can a piece of writing ever be complete?

Reading Journal- Fishman

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Fishman, Andrea R. “Literacy and Cultural Context: A Lesson from the Amish.” Language Arts, 30 Nov. 1986, eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ363335.
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words Fishman’s article really elaborates on the Amish culture’s lifestyle including how their education does not stop them from being any less educated.  In the Amish culture, they typically only go to school through the eight grade. In the Amish culture household chores are priority over school work as that is what their lives will become after the eight grade. Amish people not only learn standard English, but German as well. This means not only do they learn how to speak it, but are taught how to read it as well. As Fishman mentions, many of the books and even the newspaper(s) in the Fisherman household were written in German. Amish children receive a German written song book as young as the age of imitation meaning the age where they begin to copy their elders whether it be an older sibling or parent. This means they begin reading and speaking a second language at a very young age. Singing not only involves being verbally literate, but being able to read and understand the lyrics. The overall idea of this article is that although the Amish are not taught in a standardized way, they learn to be very literate in many different ways that are just as effective as doing reading and writing homework.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
burgeoning
  1. begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish.

 (This isn’t really a new concept, just one that truly amazes me every time I hear it.)

The fact that Amish learn not two but three languages at such young ages, and are practically fluent in all three. (English, German, and Dutch).
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 It relates to the man who talked about the video games and how you can acquire literacy just as much from being surrounded by it as as the Amish are as you can being taught from a standard manual.  
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Is literacy more acquirable by being surrounded by it and verbally practicing it as it is by writing standard assignments in a k-12 class room structure?  

Literacy + Sponsors

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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.

Reading Journal- Gee

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page What is Literacy? Author: James Paul Gee, Pages 18-23
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words I didn’t understand the article written by James Paul Gee even after watching the YouTube video until I got to the section where he states the difference of acquisition and learning. Gee states in his YouTube video that he had bought a video game in which he had read the manual but every section of the manual referenced another section in the manual. He played the game and although he was terrible at it, he got better with practice. Later in the video he talks about how schools in this generation basically teach by a manual. In the article he emphasizes on how acquiring helps better what we learn. This article made me realize how much stuff I was taught in high school that my student body as a whole would have succeeded much better at with acquisition instead of textbooks.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. Ideological – Based on or relating to a system of ideas and ideals, especially concerning economic or political theory and policy.

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

 

 I read an article in my advanced sewing class that although reading is a great way of learning, some things are better taught when acquired. Sewing is definitely a class where you need the hands on action in order to truly learn the objectives of it. I couldn’t have acquired the ability to sew by reading instructions and the machines manual.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. If schools focused more on literacy rather than common core standards, would students be more engaged when it comes to literacy and general writing?

24 Hour Writing Log

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Sept 1st 12pm-Sept 2nd 12pm

12pm- EDHE assignment- 5 words.

1pm- text message- 53 words.

1:20pm- instagram comment- 3 words.

1:32pm- text message- 26 words.

1:45pm- text message- 3 words.

2:45pm- facebook comment- 12 words.

2:48pm- facebook comment- 26 words.

3:05pm- text message- 11 words.

6pm- scheduling- 16 words.

7pm- text message- 1 word.

8pm- instagram comment(s)- total about 65 words

10:30pm- text message- 2 words.

11:57pm- text message- 127 words…

1am- facebook comment- 31 words.

9:30am- text message- 26 words.

11am- text message- 5 words.

11:37am- text message- 1 word.

11:43am- text message- 9 words.

Brandt- Reading Journal

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page. 

Sponsors of Literacy By: Deborah Brandt
College Composition and Communication
Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 165-172 (7 pages)
Published By: National Council of Teachers of English
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words

Brandt’s article was about literacy and how it has changed since the 1900’s. In the early 1900’s being able to read and write was only for the upper class. If you were literate, you were known to be from money as education alone was available to the public. Overtime it slowly changed and education was more accessible. Literacy opened more opportunities so many parents made sacrifices to open that door whether it was for them or for their children. Brandt then goes on in the last few pages of the article to explain the dynamics of literacy and the opportunities it had opened for the individuals mentioned.        I think the parents sacrificing things in order to create a better life for their children is something a good amount of students as well as myself have experienced growing up. I wasn’t shocked at the sacrifices simply because that still happens today in the 20th century.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

Pg 168.  Compradrazgo- Close friendship.
Pg 171. Subsidized- Supported financially.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 This reading sort of connects to Elbows article on literacy and how the different cultures/economies can affect ones literacy.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.

Although literacy is standard in the 20th century, is there still a superior education to those with more income given the fact that lower income schools don’t have as many resources?

Peer Group Resume

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  1. My name is Sara Birdwell, I’m from a small town north of Nashville TN.    I don’t really see myself as a writer simply because I have never been taught how to properly structure a paper which is the main thing I want to improve at. I am good at making sure things flow in a way that the reader can follow along easily without confusion.
  2. The main feedback I will prefer is by email or GroupMe. I’m comfortable with communicating as often as needed. I really want constructive criticism so I realize what I’m do wrong as well as what I’m doing well at.
  3.   I am a Gyffindor.
  4.  My email is   sjbirdwe@go.olemiss.edu
  5. YES

Reflection of my Identity. #1000BlackGirlBooks

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Growing up a female in a school filled with lots of sexist males, I always used my writing as a way to voice my thoughts and opinions from a female perspective. Many times in school, I was told I was dumb just for the simple fact I was a female and “females belong in the kitchen because that is the only place they know anything at.” I took that to heart many times and never stood up for me and my fellow female classmates especially in middle school. Now I use any opportunity I can to show that even as a female, we can be strong and make a difference which was one of Marley Dias main motives. Dias wanted to show her fellow black and brown females that they can be strong, brave, and help their community. Showing other females that it is okay to be brave and speak up for themselves is making a difference which is something I strongly try to present on my social media by sharing stories and writing short paragraphs on relatable topics.