Write a literacy narrative that re-tells one important scene, incident, experience, or character in your development as a reader, writer, or thinkerin other words, in your development as a student.

Write a literacy narrative that re-tells one important scene, incident, experience, or character
in your development as a reader, writer, or thinkerin other words, in your development as a student. To help
guide your writing, you might consider answering one of the following questions:
What is your earliest memory of writing?
Who was a significant person who helped shape or determine a turning point in your writing/reading?
When, where, how, and why did you learn to use language? Who or what helped you?
In what ways has your culture affected the way you read and write?

A well-rounded narrative will more than likely make some reference to what happened, who was involved,
when and where it happened, how it happened, and why it happened.

The Criteria: The literacy narrative is autobiographical, so you are not writing an essay in the traditional,
academic sense. You should tell a story that unfolds chronologically, rather than writing in the thesis-driven
format you may be familiar with in other writing situations.
Remember that an effective story always shows, rather than tells. Remember too that you are working to capture
a particular experience, interaction or moment; therefore, you CANNOT possibly account for ALL of your
experiences in education. Instead include brief illustrative narrative or anecdotes (Cooley 116).

Your narrative should include the following:
first-person narration (I)
appropriate verb tenses
a central point or focus and consistent point of view
chronological order and purposeful organization with appropriate transitions
plot and sensory details (smell, sight, taste, touch, sound)

Formatting Requirements:
1. 3 pages, typed and double-spaced
2. MLA format, including an original title.
Helpful Readings and Resources (from Cooleys Back to the Lake)
Chapter 7, Narration (pp. 114)
Roxane Gays Hunger (pp. 141) Kurt Streeters Have a Caltastic Day! (pp. 146)
Marjane Satrapis Kim Wilde (pp. 156)
Annie Dillards An American Childhood (pp. 169

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