Assignment Prompt

For this assignment, you will compose two separate yet interconnected language and literacy narratives: one delivered in writing, and one delivered in speech. You’re asked in this assignment to zoom into a particular moment from your life.

1. What moments stand out to you when it comes to how you use language and literacy?
2. Can you recall any family, cultural, or social events related to reading or writing that you found enlightening, encouraging, awkward, challenging, or unjust?
3. A key language or literacy moment when positive or negative emotions soared, where you struggled or triumphed?
4. An object or artifact that serves as a memory of a place, activity, or person connected to your language and literacy development?

Assignment Details

Your written narrative must be 750 – 850 words and contain:

1. A carefully crafted and revised story of a specific moment, event, or experience.
2. Vivid details that draw your readers into the scene.
3. Three (or more) materials and media to support your narrative, such as pictures of artifacts, images, links, video clips, quotes, sound bites, etc. (As all of your major assignments will be placed on a WordPress site you develop, so creating multimodal texts is important.)
4. Your interpretations of the larger social significance of the event chosen. (After all, our individual narratives reflect larger trends in society, history, where you grew up, and identities like gender, race, culture, linguistic background, and ability. (Your interpretations may be explicitly included in your narrative or implied. But if left implied, be sure to be explicit about these connections in your Cover Letter.)

Grading Checklist:

• First draft turned in on time
• Final draft turned in on time (clearly revised from first and second draft)
• Fulfills the minimum 750 word requirement
• Utilizes proper formatting (including heading, title, page numbers)
• WLLN includes at least three multimodal elements
• Zooms in on one specific moment
• Includes vivid details and description in written narrative
• Explicitly comments on a larger social significance
• SLLN presented on time and used at least one multimodal element