Tell a story about a literacy experience you’ve had that is important to you. Describe scenes, people, places, and actions.

Assignment Question

Assignment This assignment asks that you learn about the genre of narrative as you reflect on and tell the story about a literacy event in your life.

Task Description In this class, we’re defining literacy broadly (beyond reading and writing) and Project 1 is your opportunity to tell a story about a literacy experience you’ve had that is important to you. We’ll use this as an opportunity to learn the genre of narrative, together. A narrative is a story, and an effective story does more than entertain: it reveals an insight, belief, or value that you— or a community you belong to— holds.

For Project #1, your story will focus on an experience of literacy. The word “literacy” is complex, so continue to think about what it means to you.

This assignment is narrative-based and uses techniques that both “show” and “tell.” Specifically, you will describe scenes, people, places, and actions. Use of sensory detail, concrete specifics, figurative language, dialogue, and other storytelling strategies will strengthen your portrayal of your experience, serving as evidence so that your readers get to see what happens. In addition to a vivid portrait of the situation, you will reflect, comment, question, and speculate about what your literacy event means to you. You will examine how this experience reveals some insight that serves as the central focusing statement or idea about composing texts, engaging with texts, or how language works and does what it does.

Format Requirements Your project should be formatted in 12-pt. font with 1-inch margins. Your project should follow MLA format and have all MLA headers in the top left and page numbers/last name in the top right. Word count should run between 700-1,000 words.