Pamela Delauz

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.

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• 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

1) What did you learn from the “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans” article? Be specific and provide examples from the reading.

I learned a good amount from this article. To start, there were three different waves of Arabic-speaking immigrants …

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”?

When watching this week’s TEDTalk, I learned firstly that new literacies are directly tied to …

1. According to Szwed, the five elements of literacy are text, context, motivation, function, and participants. Motivation, for me, is an element of literacy I find myself struggle with on a day-to-day basis. Szwed states, “One may be moved to read

Literacy, according to its official definition, is “the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.” Literacy is one of the first things we taught …