Week 2 Goals & Activities: What’s a Literacy Narrative?

Goals

For the next three weeks, we will be working on our first essay: a literacy narrative. By the end of this week, you will be able to

• Identify the main purpose and features of a literacy narrative
• Examine two example essays
• Propose a possible topic for your essay

Watch

• What’s a literacy narrative?
• Prewriting
• Generating Ideas for a Literacy Narrative

Read

• Little Seagull Handbook W-11-11b on Personal Narratives; W-4-4a on Generating Ideas
• Example Literacy Narratives: “Mother Goose in Monterrey” by Sofia Gomez & “Proficiency” by Shannon Nichols
• Handouts: Choosing a Topic and Essay Description

Explore & Do

• Discussion: Sample Narratives
• Assignment: Prewriting