Debarati Dutta ENGL 1101 Week 3.

2: September 5, 2013 Activity Plan for 9/5/2013 with Homework for 9/10/2013 Activity 1: Read and Discuss Shirley Brice Heaths Protean Shapes in Literacy Events (about 30 minutes) Journaling: Put todays date and Response to Brice Heath. For the past 2 weeks or so, we have focused on understanding what literacy is and how our literacies develop as the result of a complex interaction between the individual and society. For this journal, think about how Brice Heaths definitions of literacy environment and literacy events. What did these two terms make you think about? How do these concepts add on to your growing understanding of literacy and literacy development? Group Discussion: Work in groups of 3-4 members; select a team manager, a note-taker (someone with a laptop would be great), and 1 or 2 reporters. Share your annotated reading, todays journal entry, and your homework (5 literacy events). As you discuss your work, tease out what you have in common; also identify uncommon literacy events and environments. Cover the following 3 areas: 1. Discuss Heath: Identify what you want to talk about and share your questions and insights. 2. Discuss your response to Heath (todays journal). As your peers talk, listen carefully and ask questions when you find yourself struggling as a reader/listener. 3. Share any 2-3 literacy events from your homework from 9/3/2013. As your peers talk, listen carefully and ask questions when you find yourself struggling as a reader/listener. Class Discussion Activity 2: Domain Analysis (Writing-about 20 minutes) If you are working digitally, simply draw a table with 2 rows and 2 columns. Otherwise, take a sheet of paper and divide it into four equal quadrants. Label each category in the following manner: Home, Institution, Community, and Work. These quadrants correspond to the primary domains in which you develop and practice your literacies. For each literacy domain, make a list of actions and/or literacy events that help you practice and further develop your literacies. Activity 3: Read and Discuss Amit Chaudhuris Beyond Translation (if time permits-otherwise read for class on Tuesday) Homework for September 10 Reading: For next week, you will read an excerpt from Paule Marshalls Poets in the Kitchen. Afterwards, you will choose any two from the following three narratives: (1) Vincent Cremonas My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Susan Maderas One Voice, and Julia Alvarezs My English. As you have done before, please annotate and highlight (a) what is new and may need further clarification and (b) what you found exciting and would like to share with class.

We will discuss Paule Marshall on Tuesday; the other three readings will be discussed on Thursday. Save your annotated reading and bring them to class for further discussion. Writing: Re-visit your domain analysis. Think about other literacy events that you may want to add to the domain map. Revise. Research/Inquiry: (1) Study your domain analysis map and see what evidence you can locate to support what you have written about in that map. To do this, examine your everyday literacy environment and begin to collect evidence that will help your readers understand your environment and the various literacy events you participate in. Bring this evidence to class on Tuesday. If you cannot bring the evidence to class, consider bringing some representation of it. (2) Deborah Brandts essay has made us more mindful of the local and global forces that shape our literacies in powerful ways. While it is easy to identify our parents, family, peer support groups, and teachers as our literacy sponsors, it is also important to understand that these local and immediate sponsors function within complex systems of sponsorship. As critical thinkers, it is important that we dig deeper to understand the larger forces that shape our literacies. For your homework, begin to locate at least 2-3 larger, perhaps less visible, sponsors of your literacy. You may, for example, want to find out more about education policies that impacted your school-based literacies: These education policies may be connected with the language curricula in school (for example, an English-only mandate in a bilingual/multilingual setting, the abolition of a foreign language curriculum because of budgetary constraints), teacher education. You may also want to look at various local, regional, national, or international policies (for example, even trade agreements between two countries and have an impact on schooling and the curriculum) that may have had an impact on what you learned. Bring your research to class on Tuesday for sharing.

Activity 2: Domain Analysis (Writing-about 20 minutes) If you are working digitally, simply draw a table with 2 rows and 2 columns. Otherwise, take a sheet of paper and divide it into four equal quadrants. Label each category in the following manner: Home, Institution, Community, and Work. These quadrants correspond to the primary domains in which you develop and practice your literacies. For each literacy domain, make a list of actions and/or events that help you practice and develop your literacies.

For each of these literacy domains, make a detailed list of the various acts of reading and writing that you perform in each of these domains. As you make your list, consider the various literacy events and the literacy environment within each domain.
Home Institution

Community

Work