1.) The rhetorical appeal that I chose for this assignment was pathos. When you are using this approach you are trying to appeal to your audience’s emotions. You are trying to get them to identify with you, and the story you are telling by provoking some feeling.

2.) The advertisment that I picked is a Coca- Cola ad as you can see below. I chose this ad becuase it is trying to make the consumer think that buying Coke will make them happy. They are using pathos to appeal to the consumers emotions and how they feel when they drink Coke.

3.) The piece I chose to analyze was “Somebody’s Daughter.” I think that the author is using pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions when she talks about the culture shock that the nomadic people have experienced. She even says that “One of the worst effects of this has been the fracturing of families” and “Now many young people are cultural orphans.”  I think that this is an effective use of the appeal because these statements help the reader connect to the nomadic people and feel some of the pain of what they are going through.

A literacy narrative should tell your audience something about you. It can be a story that you write about a particular memory that you have. A good literacy narrative leaves your audience with a message at the end about why you wrote it. There should be some apparent significance to why you chose to write the narrative that you did. It should be clearly written with a logical sequence of ideas.

I think what the article was getting at is that no story is truly unique because we are using elements from our culture and other people’s stories to tell out own. I thought it was interesting that the article brought up the fact that the way we create our own identity is by looking at the people around us. I’ve never thought of my own literacy development in this way before. I guess it shows me that although the words that I’m using in my writing have been spoken and used before I have to find a way to make the words my own, and make them tell my own personal story.

1.      Hooked-On-Phonics really did work for me!

·         My mom was very afraid that I would never learn how to read and that I would flunk the 1^st grade. Even though I hated practicing to read, my mom still holds to the belief that the only reason I can read today is because of Hooked-On-Phonics.

·         My ideal reader for this topic would be anyone who has struggled learning how to read. They bring to the experience understanding because they have been in the same situation that I was in. I would use ethos, because I am crediting that this program really did work for me and also pathos because most people can remember struggling to learn how to read.

2.      How I ended up working in a library.

·         It’s kind of weird for a young person to enjoy working in a library with people that are a lot older than them, but I love my job. It all started when I was a little kid and used to go to the library to get books. Miss Judy always checked out my books and since those days I have always wanted to work in a library.

·         My ideal reader for this topic might be people my age who think that working in a library could never be fun or enjoyable. So, they might be a resisting reader and I might have to use logos to appeal to their reason and convince them otherwise.

3.      Sweet Valley Kids, my first chapter book.

·         This memory is really important to me because I can actually remember going to the library and picking out my first chapter book. What an honor it was to graduate to the “big kids” section.

·         My ideal reader would be real addressed readers, people who I expect to be sympathetic to my story. I would use pathos to appeal to the emotions of people who remember the first book they read.

4.      Mrs. Bur who bribed me to read with ice cream.

·         Mrs. Bur, my second grade teacher, made a deal with my class that the people who had read so many pages by the end of the year would get to go to Friendly’s with her for free ice cream sundaes. Beings that I can’t pass up ice cream I read the ridiculous amount of pages that she had proposed.

·         My ideal audience would be real addressed readers. Some of these people might think that bribing a child to read wouldn’t work or be beneficial, but it worked for me.

5.      Being part of the red robin reading group in first grade.

·         In first grade my teacher put us in reading groups. Although she said there was no rhyme or reason to our placement in these groups, we weren’t stupid. She put us in groups according to our reading level. I was placed in the “smart” group and that really motivated me to work hard at my reading and improve it even more.

·         Again, my audience would be a real addressed reader. A lot of people can remember being placed in different level reading groups in school so I could use pathos to appeal to their emotions.

A narrative in my point of view is a retelling of a personal story. This could be of an event that happened in the writer’s life, or a memory they have. I think what sets a narrative apart from a story is that a narrative is retelling of a specific course of events. You might leave out aspects of the event that are unimportant and don’t matter. Also rather than retelling a story out loud, a narrative is written down. I haven’t had a lot of experience in writing my own narratives. I have read other people’s narratives and enjoy reading them because they have a personal aspect to them.

We met in our peer writing groups today and discussed our visual narrative projects. I ran my idea past my group members and they seemed to really like it. They think it is a good idea that I have a theme for my collage. It makes it more organized this way and keeps the audience’s attention. I decided that along with clip art I am going to be using pictures of myself when I was younger taking part in literacy activities. Some examples are pictures of me reading books, a picture of me in front of my bookcase, a picture of me reading a book in my pool, etc. I also found out during my peer writing session that I am going to have to make a works cited page for all the images I’m going to be using in my collage. It was said that you don’t have to cite any images that you get from places like Microsoft clipart. But because of the fact that I got most of my images for my collage from either magazines or clip art sites on the internet, it looks like I am going to have an extremly long works cited list. I was worried about not having a lot of words or captions to go with my collage, but my writing group members didn’t seem to think that this was going to be a big deal. They thought that a collage could have captions but that it wasn’t abosoulty necessary. I think that my peer workshop day really helped me get all of my ideas together.

The theme for my visual narrative is going to be “Literacy Through the Years.” I plan on making a collage of images I print off of the computer and pictures of myself. I plan on incorporating elements of literacy from my childhood all the way up until my adult life now. I think by incorporating literacies from my past as well as the present will show the viewer that literacy has played a big role in my life. I plan on using two half pieces of poster board to put my collage on. I don’t plan on using any words except for a title and my name.

We looked at a lot of movie examples in class. I noticed that the length doesn’t have to be extremely long to be a good visual narrative. These narratives are basically about expressing yourself and how you have progressed on your journey toliteracy. Some of the bad examples had a lot of grammatical errors. We really have to be sure to polish the final drafts of our narratives because if you have spelling or grammar errors in your piece, it really gives people a bad impression. I think that it is really easy for people to produce a good visual narrative if they just use examples from their life.

When I was reading “What is CC,” I noticed that it gave an option for people who wanted to opt out of the copyright all together. My question is why would someone not want to copyright their own work?

Visuals are a very important part of communication. For me, I am a visual learner so visuals are a very important part of helping me understand material. Visuals help connect what a writer is trying to communicate in words in a visual way, such as using pictures and charts. Visuals are very important because they are the first thing that the reader sees when they look at your work. The more captivating your visuals are the more it makes the reader want to dig further into your piece of work. Visuals help up recognize important things, like  seeing street signs or  using maps. Like I said before, visuals are important in education because it can assist in learning. Visuals can also supplement the readings. We see visuals a lot in our everyday lives. If we see a yellow arch most people  can recognize and connect the image with McDonald’s even if they can’t read. As a future English teacher I will use visuals a lot in my classroom to captivate my students interest and to make the topics I’m teaching more interesting.