Based off of the readings, a literacy narrative should tell a story based on a given timeline, as well as educate us about a certain topic, situation or story.  A good literacy narrative tell us this story from that person’s point of view. Usually a good narrative tells things word for word, to give us an idea of what was really going on, or what really happened. A good literacy narrative makes you feel how the person/people in the narrative feel. For example, in the Douglass article, he says “these words sank deep into my heart.” This tells us that these words were very important to him and we feel the same importance as an audience.

I think this quote is very important and is telling us that in order to understand literacies ourselves, we must be able to understand other people and how others understand literacy. When the quote says “…is half someone elses” I think that we are developing literacy as someone else had already created it. This relates to me personally because I learned how to read, write and perform other literacies based off of what other people had already knew and taught me.

For my 1st topic choice, I think my ideal reader would be someone who had some kind or situaiton similar to mine, as far as different groups or companies coming to their schools and encouraging them to read. The reader could also be someone who started to have an interest in reading when they were a child. I feel as though the reader is someone who has similar views and attitudes about this approach.

For my 2nd topic choice, I think my ideal reader would be anyone who had a class or was in middle or high school, and was forced to read books that they didn’t want to read.  I think my reader will be someone who used to love to read and then did not have the same passion for books as they did before.

For my 3rd topic, my ideal reader would be anyone who uses e-mail on a daily basis, and someone in which e-mails are very important in their everyday lives. This could be someone that is good with computers and is familiar with using e-mail and had to learn to use it.

For my 4th topic choice, my ideal reader would probably be someone who works in a restaurant as a server, or someone who has a job or career in which different literacies are very important. Something that the reader can bring to this is the fact that different jobs require different literacies, and everyone does  not possess the same ones.

For my 5th topic choice my audience is anyone who learned how to use computers in order to type and loves to do so. This person may be someone in which typing is very important for something that they do. I think the ideal reader will have an attitude in which they agree how helpful and easy typing is.

In no particular preference order:

1. How reading became a major part of my life due to sponsors such as the scholastic book fairs in elementary school, reading programs at the library and my mom.

2. How reading became something I did not like to do because of the requirement of reading boring books for school, in which this case, the sponsors include the teachers who assigned the boring books, as well as the books themselves.

3. The significance of email once I came to college, with teachers, my freshman year roomate, fellow students, and the university being my sponsors.

4. The reading and writing literacies that I perform at work, whose sponsors include managers, co-workers, and customers. 

5. Learning how to type, which has helped alot with school papers, and other important things in my life. The sponsors for this are computer teachers in middle school as well as my mom.

In my opinion, a narrative is a story. A narrative re-tells something that already happened, and includes important people, dates, events, or ideas. Nrratives are eduacational, informational, and interesting. I had alot of experience with narratives in my theater and film class in which we watched several different narratives, and then we had to perform a narrative based on interviews that we memorized.

After meeting with my writing group, I’m still not sure which option I am going to use for my visual narrative. I shared with my group the ideas that I had, and everyone agreed that the idea of literacies in the workplace for past, present and future was a different and good idea. My group also said that doing a narrative of the literacies of my everyday life would be a good idea as well. One group member said that they really liked the idea of using a ticket from my job at Bob Evans in my narrative because they know how hard it is, and that it’s a literacy that not everyone has. For my idea of doing literacies in my everyday life, i was thinking of including writing checks as a literacy but i was not sure as to whether or not that would be a good idea for a literacy. One group member said that it was a good idea because that is something that we have to learn how to do, and not everyone knows how to do, and not everyone uses. Because of that i think I will go with the idea of literacies that i do in my everyday life that some might not look at as literacies. Although another group member is doing a similar idea of everyday literacies, we compared ideas and we will not have the same exact type of visual narratives.

For my visual narrative i will more than likely be doing a powerpoint presentaiton or using windows movie maker. I am still deciding between doing my narative on literacies at the workplace, or the literacies that i experience throughout my normal week. If I do literacies throughout my normal week, I will include pictures of texting, writing emails, doing homework, maybe writing out checks for bills, and writing papers. I will also still include the literacies i use at work at Bob Evans, which include reading and writing out orders for customers. if i choose to do my narrative on workplace literacies, I will focus mainly on my current job, and talk about literacies in past jobs, and literacies i will use and need in the future.

How do publishers and writers determine what documents should be copyrighted as no rights reserve, all rights reserve or some rights reserve?

Based off the examples, I think what makes a good visual narrative is a narrative that gives us a clear idea of what message the presenter is trying to give us. The narrative shows us what types of literacies the presenter possesses and how they go about it. A good visual narrative has the proper visual that helps add to their narrative in order to make it better

I think a bad visual narrative is one in which you dont really understand what the literacy is that is being explained. I also think a bad visual narrative does not have alot of information about the literacy act. Lastly I think what makes a bad visual narrative is a narrative that lacks a proper visual that helps us understand, and show us what their literacy is (are).

I think i perform many literacy acts in a week. The obvious would probably be reading and writing as homeork assignments for classes. I also think that when I am checking and sending emails i am also performing literacy acts. Outside of the usual reading and writing, i also think that i am perfoming literacy acts when I am at work at Bob Evans when i am writing down orders that my ccustomers give me, as well as reading co-workers tickets to help take out their food as well. Another literacay act that comes to mind that i am sure many people dont really realize is text messaging, whether it be receiving a text or sending one. I am sure there are many more, but those are the main examples that come to mind