The Middling Peoples of Medieval England: Skilled Laborers and Merchants

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ERH 101-03 Project 4

My Journey in Literacy

My eighth grade English teachers said that reading comics, Calvin and Hobbes was one that I like to read, did not count towards our reading requirements for the course. I have also been required to read certain books that did not interest me throughout middle and high school, and especially now in ERH 101. I was not able to find able to find alternate sponsors for the literacy that interested me, because I did not care enough about reading in general to do something about restricted or required reading. I have never been very argumentative about doing what is required of me in order to achieve the goals I have set for myself.

3. I can find only a few examples of Malcolm X’s literacy sponsors: Public school up through 8th grade, whatever company that made the dictionary that Malcolm transcribed, and most importantly Norfolk Prison Colony. The most influential sponsor was Norfolk Prison Colony, and its motive was to make a functional member of society out of a delinquent by providing the means to become educated.

4. Malcolm X did subvert the intentions of his sponsors, by creating a movement that challenged many of the members of his sponsor (Norfolk Prison Colony, and the government itself). They wanted to provide the means for him to become educated so that he might fit in to society better, but instead he became a social revolutionary.

Disciplinary Awareness: Shows an understanding of the subject material, but does not dive as deep into analysis as it should.

Interdisciplinary Awareness: Demonstrates knowledge, and also includes the author’s personal experiences. Still does not dive too deep into analysis

Interdisciplinary Comparison:

Content

• Fish says students should only learn grammar and mechanics in early learning
• Author feels personal experience should be related to writing
• Finds that students who relate their writing to personal experience write better
• Students feel distanced from learning when they aren’t interested
• Finds that the separation of academic and personal life is detrimental to learning
• Student’s other knowledge can contribute to their learning of literacy

Purpose

• Author uses her personal experience to reinforce her opinion that personal writing is the best writing
• Tells stories about alienated writers to appeal to the pathos of her readers
• Uses her own personal experiences to appeal to ethos
• Supports her arguments with counter arguments to the ideas of Fish
• Uses other authors’ works to support her own such as hooks
• Makes a largely emotional argument