XKit: Adobe CC Express - Digital Literacy Narrative

From the authors, Karla Murphy & Chelsie Schlesinger:

"We’ve been asking students to tell a story that focuses on their personal experience with literacy for some time. And while we’ve been able to augment the assignment and inspire students with sample essays, the black and white nature of words on a page just never fully inspired the types of stories we were after or that students seemed willing but unable to tell. Spark pages changed that. In and of itself, storytelling teaches us about personal experience. Storytelling in Spark illuminates and illustrates that experience in ways students -- especially those in first-year writing classes -- don’t always have the words for . . . yet."

For this assignment, you will write a literacy narrative that addresses literacy and its significance in your life. The goal is to tell a story about literacy that transforms your personal experience to an event with broader appeal, interest, and importance. The audience for this assignment includes your classmates, instructor, and whoever else you want to share the work with. Your role in this work will be as a storyteller and creative project maker.

Completing this assignment will enable students to:

• Use flexible, culturally relevant, audience-specific language for different purposes, for example, with different voice, tone, level of formality
• Compose in different genres and media for diverse audiences and purposes
• Apply critical languaging (thinking, reading, and composing) to deepen learning and understanding about a given topic
• Develop a writing project through connected assignments and drafts
• Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, proofreading, and editing
• Use composing processes and strategies as a means to invent, discover, and reconsider ideas