Literacy Autobiography
Invention Questions
The following questions/prompts
will help you focus on your personal experiences.
- You have encountered many definitions of literacy in the
essays you studied in the exam unit. Write a personal definition that
embodies your current attitude toward literacy.
- Describe what factors have changed your previous
attitude toward literacy. List particular facts or arguments you encountered
while reading the literacy essays and through the discussions you had with
your group that made you reconsider your earlier conceptions of literacy.
- Recall a literate experience in your life (either text
bound or a different medium such as music, art, dance, etc) that was
particularly meaningful to you.
- Why was this experience significant in shaping your
understanding of the impact of literacy on your life? How were you able to
“read the world” differently after this experience?