1. WA4, introduction and example
Interviewing Tips
Explore Storycorp
WA4 in sound? Try it!
WA4 video?
2. Groundwork Activity on page 299 (FW)
3. The Cultural Translator: body language and culture, words and culture, ethnopoetics (?), insider language, verbal performances (+ groundwork activity on page 351)
4. East Caney (again)–watch and listen
“Not Doing It Right,” a literacy narrative by Dr. Robin Anne Reid, Professor of English, Department of Literature and Languages, Texas A&M-Commerce
“Not Doing it Right” illustrates a young child’s desire to read in spite of the rules established by the educators where she lived. Through this literacy narrative, Reid discusses her ability to teach herself the rules for academia as they applied to her and her road to becoming an English teacher. “Not Doing it Right” contributes to the National Conversation on Writing by describing the reading and writing that often occurs in spite of literacy education that might appear to work against such learning. onnections that occur between reading and writing.
See “Standardized: Part I”
Video by Shannon Carter (Texas A&M-Commerce) about her brother Eric Carter (b. 1973), whose experiences with traditional literacy education and associated technologies (pen/paper) were altogether unsatisfying. Video essay also describes his movement towards technological literacies. The video then progresses into a discussion of literacies in our daily lives, including video games, music, and writing in/for digital environments. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by sharing one man’s literacy narrative. Video is incomplete and in process.
English 102-Honors 