In your Literacy Narrative you will be telling us, an audience of your classmates and me, a story about you and part of your "literacy life." You will use your skills of description and narration to pull your readers into your story. Be sure you convey the significance of your story; this will make your readers care about what you are saying.
You are writing this essay for several reasons. Of course you want to entertain your audience with a good story, but you also will be investigating and learning something about yourself as well. We learn unexpected and wonderful things when we write, and sometimes we write things we don't know that we know! You will also be exercising those writing muscles you already have: the muscles called narration, description, focus, organization, development, and so on. You will be using these muscles/skills in the writing you will be doing all semester.
Length: Whatever it takes, yes, but it should be at least 3 pages long.
Format: MLA style for the essay (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, standard font, 11- or 12-point). Make sure you are also using the proper heading for your essay (your name, English 106-08-02, the name of the assignment and draft number, and the date of the draft as you are revising it).
Hand in your project in this order (WITH a springy clip):
Your Reflection on the Project is to be written as a "Dear Reader" letter, and it should be about a page and a half to two pages long. In your Reflection, you will address the questions I have provided for you. In addition, you'll need to explain the significance of your narrative. [Note: this is a very important part of your Reflection. Don't omit it.]
Due:
Friday, January 18th--rough draft emailed to me
Wednesday, January 23rd--Revised draft (print hard copy to class)
Friday, January 25th--Further revised draft (bring electronic version to class)
Monday, January 28th--Final Literacy Narrative** project. Bring project (as listed above) to class, ready to hand in at the beginning of the hour.
Wednesday, January 30th--Reflection of Literacy Narrative** due: Bring hard copy to class to hand in at the beginning of the hour.
**As soon as you complete your Reflection, email me your final draft of both your Literacy Narrative and your Reflection. Remember that they must be .doc files.
The Literacy Narrative assignment is worth 50/1000 points.
The Reflection of the Literacy Narrative assignment is worth 10 points.