BLACKBOARD ASSIGNMENTS
Essay 1 Narration The Literacy Autobiography.
Type a thesis-based essay discussing literacy development, language acquisition
and education in general. You are expected to develop a thesis, provide reasons
and evidence for your thesis. Utilize your personal experience learning to think,
speak, read and write, and the articles, Learning to Read And Write, by
Frederick Douglass and Two Languages in Mind, But Just One in the Heart, by
Louise Erdrich for those purposes.
Use information from relevant handouts, previous activities and discussions; and
your publish to help you construct your essay. Structure your essay to include the
following:
Introduction
Topic; Thesis; Method Statement. Remember that your thesis should be stated
clearly at the beginning and restated several times in the essay.
NOTE: A Background / Reflection about the topic can be included in your
introduction or at the beginning of your body.
Body
This should include the elaboration / discussion of reasons for your thesis;
Evidence for your reasons must be obtained from the readings & your
experience. Your account of your experiences should use narration rhetoric. It
should be sequential it should have a beginning, a middle and an end. And conclusion summary of main points review statement answering the question . What did you do in this essay ? What did you disscuss what did you argue ? How did you support your thesis?. And put the title that reflect the thesis that I gave you