Antares's UWRITE Profolio
Civic Literacies
Malcolm X
"Learning to Read "- Response
Reflection:
-Upon reading this excerpt from Malcolm X, I expected to learn something about his past and his disadvantages as well as advantages of learning how to read. Throughout my course in this U-Write class I focused on my critical reading and how I as the reader can dig into the deeper meaning of the speaker. I believe that Malcom X's experience within the jail benefited his overall outcome of a general reader. The materials he was offered in jail (books from Harvard) allowed him to become one of the most educated African American men in history of civil rights. This assignment allowed me to understand that sponsors and literacy access is very important when it comes to anyone’s general need and desire for education, especially reading. If Malcolm X did not have the books he acquired in jail, then he might not have gained the knowledge he needed to have to serve the general African American Community. For the remainder of the semester I hope to challenge myself and be able to interpret harder readings, finding connections through the author and the piece in question.
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Reflection:
-To the right, I have a blog plost that I had written in response to Fan Shen's "The Classroom and the Wider Culture". Within the article Shen talks about how our identity relates to "self preservation". In other words, how what we do reflects how people percieve us. He relates this by using examples such as his Chinese self using the word "we" instead of "I". I decided to write about how the author reflects on his own tradition and culture into what is now his English self. I learned the classroom goes beyond culture and what you expect it to be. Sometimes there is no limit, that in the end we are all the same; even when it comes to writing.
This was a blog post that I had wrote that was reflective to myself as multiculutral person as well as a college student. I had to dig deep inside my analogical mind to understand that the passion and effort we put forth in our identity can change in any setting. Just like in class we had to anaylze the material and put it to the idea of a narrative of the author or literacy narrative. "How did this author come to be?" "Was it from the books they read, the people thery met, the family they grew up with?" These questions are all very important when thinking about the writer in any context.
Response :
"The Classroom and the Wider Culture"- Fan Shen
