Chapter One - "Through the Looking Glass"
Raid One: Literacy Failure Analysis
Literacy is primarily something people do; it is an activity, located in the space between thought and text. Literacy does not just reside in people’s heads as a set of skills to be learned, and it does not just reside on paper, captured as texts to be analyzed. Like all human activity, literacy is essentially social, and it is located in the interaction between people.
– Hamilton and Barton, Local Literacies
– Hamilton and Barton, Local Literacies
Chapter Overview
When you disembark on your first journey, you feel the wave of freedom wash over you. You are in an unfamiliar place with a similar, but different set of objectives to complete. You pull out your journal and review your objectives: Find your identity; Learn about rhetoric; Reflect on your literacy; Write about failure.
You find yourself thinking about identity. Who am I? What is my specialization? What are my personal objectives in the Rhetorical Inn? You remark on how identity can be a frustrating and complicated concept to understand, but you will think it through on this adventure. As you walk through your journey, you start to recall what you know about rhetoric and argumentative essays. As you approach the Rhetorical Inn you see a bard making a charcoal drawing? You wonder...
You have three sessions to think about these concepts on your journey. Complete your assigned quests and adventures on your way to your first raid, the Literacy Failure Analysis, and walk away successful.
You find yourself thinking about identity. Who am I? What is my specialization? What are my personal objectives in the Rhetorical Inn? You remark on how identity can be a frustrating and complicated concept to understand, but you will think it through on this adventure. As you walk through your journey, you start to recall what you know about rhetoric and argumentative essays. As you approach the Rhetorical Inn you see a bard making a charcoal drawing? You wonder...
You have three sessions to think about these concepts on your journey. Complete your assigned quests and adventures on your way to your first raid, the Literacy Failure Analysis, and walk away successful.
Raid OverviewWhat is literacy and how does it relate to gaming? The act of gaming is a play between thought and text. Gaming is not just something that is in our heads, it is a process of reading and responding in a trained or creative way. We interact with the “text” of our games, whether it be a physical card, board game, an imaginative interpretation through video games, or metagaming (roleplaying). If literacy is the ability to comprehend, analyze, and (re)produce information, what aspects of games are relevant? We learn best through failure--as displayed in gaming--so what was a real moment of failure that changed the way you approached literacy?
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Think about a moment while gaming in which you failed at the task. Write about how that moment of failure changed you, your literacy habits, or approach to similar events. This is an informal writing assignment that can be told as a narrative.
Raid Instruction
I want you to think of a game, at any point in your life, which has left an impression on you. How do your memories of this game fit into the above definition of literacy? What were you comprehending, analyzing, and (re)producing? Think about the written or implied rules of the game. What skills were needed?
Beyond the skills needed to play this game, what social interactions were present? Literacy can be explained both through events and practices. Hamilton and Barton explain an event is an observable moment of literacy (interaction with a “text”). A practice is the surrounding factors that contributed to the actions of the event, whether it be rules/life lessons/experiences you bring to that event, or how the event is regulated.
Think of your gaming event and what practices surrounded it. What rules/influences did you have to follow? How were these broken or manipulated? How did these affect how you played/thought about your game? Do you associate a person or group of people with this game?
Beyond the skills needed to play this game, what social interactions were present? Literacy can be explained both through events and practices. Hamilton and Barton explain an event is an observable moment of literacy (interaction with a “text”). A practice is the surrounding factors that contributed to the actions of the event, whether it be rules/life lessons/experiences you bring to that event, or how the event is regulated.
Think of your gaming event and what practices surrounded it. What rules/influences did you have to follow? How were these broken or manipulated? How did these affect how you played/thought about your game? Do you associate a person or group of people with this game?
Requirements
- Between 750 and 1000 words.
- MLA format.
- Works Referenced (if needed)
- At least one image in the text (should include image source).
- Use bold, italics, different fonts, and colors for emphasis.
Performance Record
Your raid score will be based on the following:
- Development of Literacy - The player must explore the concepts of comprehending, analyzing, and (re)producing through their event and the surrounding practices.
- Metanoic Reflection - The player explores their failure and analyzes what they learned about that moment.
- Time-Place-Object Specificity - Use details surrounding time, place, and objects in the narrative.
- Development - There is a logical, natural flow and the central idea is well articulated. The writing should keep the attention of the reader without confusion. Strong transitions as to not answer questions.
- Correctness - The writing follows the guidelines of word count, 1 inch margins, MLA formatting, font specifications, proper grammar, an image, and respective class requirements.
Class Requirements
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Formatting Expectations |
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Submitting Raid |
Must be in "Raid One" folder in GoogleDrive.
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Important Deadlines
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Raid Due January 26.
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Stuart Literacy Narrative Example | |
File Size: | 16 kb |
File Type: | docx |