Alyxandria VanDeWalle

Has the Black community truly been afforded equal access to literacy necessary to be successful in contemporary America? Reference Richard Wright’s “The Library Card” and any other sources, including your own experience, if you wish.

With contemporary America being considered …

• Describe one identity that you have that you are most proud of and explain why. Describe also one identity that you either are not proud of, or struggle with. Explain why you are not proud of this identity or why

Right off the bat the article, “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans”, broke down the vast  ancestry that is included in the category “Arab Americans”. Arabs only make up .5 percent of what the category includes. Immigrants from the Middle …

1)Select 1-2 paragraphs from The Subtle Evolution of Native American Education. Summarize them and respond to them.

Towards the end of the article, I learned a lot about Native American youth and how their own outlooks on their culture …

1. What did you learn about new literacies from this week’s video “The essential elements of digital literacies” and from the reading “Dawn of new literacies”?

Doug Belshaw highlighted a lot of great points about the broadness of digital literacies in …

According to Szwed, what are the 5 elements of literacy? Select one of them and describe it in more detail.

Szwed’s five elements of literacy are text, context, function, participants, and motivation. Participants are who is reading, we can break …

Literacy to me was always simply put, it is reading and writing. While researching this word, I’ve found it is much broader than that. It is more then simply reading and writing, it is also an acknowledgement of understanding. To …