Literacy Autobiography
Topic Development
- Make a list of specific details you can recall about the
person/event that you plan to develop into an essay.
- Are there any significant details that you have
forgotten? List any gaps in the story that will need to be filled in.
- Why did this event/person have a significant impact on
your attitude toward literacy? If you were to write your autobiography in
later years would you still look back on this experience as noteworthy?
- How comfortable are you in revealing details of this
experience to the class and the instructor? If you had to leave out any
details that are too personal, are there other aspects of the story that you
could enlarge upon that would arouse the interest of the reader and retain the
significance of the experience? Explain.