The excerpt featured in the image above (on the far right) isn’t part of a literacy narrative; it’s a page from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. That page from Chapter One serves as a useful model for three narrative elements, at least two of which will figure in your literacy narrative. We will examine the page today in class, and I will address the page in more detail in Wednesday’s class.
After we examine the page from To Kill a Mockingbird, you and two or three of your classmates will collaboratively assess the two student literacy narratives that you read for today’s class.
First, you will discuss your annotations on “Creativity is Key,” and you will collaboratively compose a brief assessment, a minimum of one complete sentence. After that, you will use the grade criteria on your literacy narrative assignment sheet to assign a grade for the essay.
Next, you will complete the steps above with the second literacy narrative, “Giving a Speech: Worst Nightmare to Best Feeling.”
Next Up
In class on Wednesday, you will compose a short essay that reflects on the processes of planning, drafting and composing your literacy narrative. If you do not post your essay to Blackboard and WordPress before class (you have until Friday morning to do so), you should refer to your work as ongoing.
Remember that Wednesday is the first day that you are required to bring your copy of Writing Analytically to class. In the reflection that you write in class, you will quote one relevant line from the textbook. Reviewing tomorrow’s blog post, which will include notes on quoting Writing Analytically, will ensure that you are able to effectively integrate a quotation into your essay in the allottted time.
Jane Lucas 