7/06/11: literacy narrative handout

This handout was all about literacy narratives. We have an assignment coming up that requires us to write a formal paper about a significant event in our educational history. The handout is a great tool because it gives us an example and lots of instructions and tips on how to write a good narrative. In the story called Proficiency the author talks about her road block in the street of writing. Her failure of a test multiple times discouraged her from writing and even made her dislike what she once loved and enjoyed doing so much. As I read through the handout, I began forming potential topics for my formal paper. The handout also talks about the importance of dialogue in a narrative, which is something that I am not very familiar with. I'm excited to get started on the paper and get feedback from the professor and from my peers. I will start with a list of topics and ask a few people which they would like to hear about and which one they would not want to hear. This way, before I even get started, I will have valuable input on the decision for which topic I end up writing about.