Musa Sisoko

White people use literacy as a hegemonic tool against Blacks/African Americans. One example of this is the Louisiana Voter literacy Test in 1964, which caused Black/African Americans to be unable to vote. Another example of how literacy is used as …

One identity I’m most proud of is being African. It is something I am most most proud of because when I was young I was Learning more about my culture in terms of which country in Africa my parents from, …

1. What I learned about the Middle East in the article “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans” was that 2018 was an important year for the Arab and Middle Eastern community because Rashida Tlaib was the first Palestinian American to be

1. In the article “The Subtle Evolution of Native American Education, I’ve learned that the Native Americans did not had a fair shot in the school systems. Also, there was a lot of discrimination towards Native Americans and people would belittle

1. Some examples of new literacies are text messaging, blogging, social networking, podcasting, and videomaking.

2. Some examples of new literacies are text messaging, blogging, social networking, podcasting, and videomaking. 2. An example of new literacy that surprised me is podcasting. …

Some Literacy issues we have in the U.S are basic reading skills, writing, knowing letters, problems with speaking and listening, and pronouncing and sounding out words.

The causes of these problems are students not being proficient by the time they …

1. Szwed states that the 5 elements to literacy are text, context, function, participants, and motivation. Motivation refers to the reason as to why people read, some examples that Szwed provides are nostalgia, ambition, boredom, and fear. Motivation is also affected

When I first heard of literacy I thought that it was the ability to read and write which is not wrong but then I started to realize that it was more to it then just reading and writing.

Based on …