Multigenre Literacy Autobiography This assignment encourages you to think about the various texts of your life.

Your own history as a reader and writer of various texts has a significant impact on how you read and write today. Thinking about the following questions will help you later in creating a multimodal artifact to help you reflect on your own multigenre literacy of today. To create a multimodal artifact you will use a variety of texts including words, images, sounds, and video. Publish this collection using Sliderocket, Prezi, Glogster, Google Presentation, Google Sites, Padlet or Weebly. You will turn your project in using a google form that you can access through my website. Below are some prompts to help you get started writing your multigenre literacy autobiography. Select 20 to respond to in the B side of your writer's notebook: 1. What are your earliest recollections of reading and writing? 2. What are your earliest recollections of watching television? 3. What are your earliest recollections of going to see a film? 4. What are your earliest recollections of music? 5. What are your earliest recollections of using a computer? 6. Were you read to as a child? 7. Before you were able to read did you pretend to read books? Can you remember the first time you really read a book? 8. What pleasures or problems do you associate with early memories of reading and writing? 9. What kinds of texts have you preferred over your life? 10. Was a newspaper delivered to your home? Do you recall seeing others read the newspaper? Did you read the newspaper? 11. How did pop culture (movies, TV, music, Internet) impact your literacy and vice versa? 12. How did your gender, race, social class, and/or ethnicity impact your reading ability, what you read, and/or your attitude toward reading? 13. Do you subscribe to any magazines? Do your parents or siblings have magazine subscriptions? 14. Do your parents belong to a book club? Do they have a personal library? Do they read for pleasure? 15. Can you recall seeing family members making lists receiving and sending mail? 16. Do you receive and send mail (such as birthday cards, thank-you notes, letters)? 17. Can you remember any other indications that reading and writing were valuable in the environment in which you grew up? 18. Can you detail your first memories of reading and writing instruction? Materials used? Methods of teaching? Content? 19. Can you remember how alternative (non-print) texts were used at school, if at all? 20. How were computers used (or not used) so far in your educational journey? 21. Can you recall reading for pleasure in elementary school? 22. Can you remember writing for pleasure in elementary school? 23. Can you recall the first book you read all the way through in elementary school? 24. Can you recall your first writing assignment in elementary school?

25. Did you have a library card when you were in elementary school? Did you use it then? What predominantly did you check out from the library? In later school years? 26. Can you recall the first book you loved (couldnt put down?) 27. Can you recall the first film or television show you loved and watched over and over again? 28. Do you feel that youve ever read a book that has made a difference in your life? 29. Has a non print text made a difference in your life? 30. Have you ever read a book that you knew had been challenged or censored? How did you feel about reading it? 31. Have you ever encountered a text online that you thought adults would be upset you encountered? How did you feel about encountering that text? 32. Do you currently consider yourself a reader? 33. How have your reading and writing habits changed as you have gone to school over the years? 34. Are there any social, cultural, and/or religious organizations associated with writing or reading that you recall? 35. Can you pleasurably recall sharing books with friends? 36. Can you pleasurably recall talking about nonprint texts with friends? 37. Did you read a certain type of book (such as mysteries or biographies) at a particular age? Why do you think you made such choices? 38. Were you required to read certain novels in school? How did/do you feel about that? 39. What is your all-time favorite childrens book? 40. Have you ever read a book thats been turned into a film? Did you like the book or the film better? 41. Have there been times in your life when you have viewed reading as a pleasurable activity? 42. Have there been times in your life when you have viewed writing in a pleasurable activity? 43. Is there a specific teacher (or several) who stands out in your memory as someone who had an impact on your reading and/or writing? 44. What contributions have your reading and writing abilities made to your life? 45. Do you consider yourself a writer? 46. What are you currently reading (or what is the most recent text you have read? Grading _____/21

A minimum of 7 different texts. Maximum of 10 texts. Your project should reflect your time, thought and effort. The texts you select should include a variety of types of text representing different eras of your life. Presentation: Thoroughly and thoughtfully explains the significance of each artifact and provides insight into its influence on you as a reader and/or writer.

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