Just put here for safekeeping ( Read more... )

Here are all the things I have left to do, before the semester is over. Such a short list, but a lot of work ( Read more... )

My program sponsors this event every semester at the community centre, where parents of ESL children can come learn about how they can help their children succeed. They call it a "Family Literacy Night" and they've actually gotten grants to do it. They offer the parents who attend a small gift and a stipend of a sort. Last year, we gave out a book ( Read more... )

To do for today:

Four page paper on Diverse Literacy
Read 50 pages in "Island of English"
Ask Dr. Prater if I can use photos instead of physical copies. She said yes.

To do for tomorrow:
Finish Dyson's "Come Hell or High Water"
Write up report of last session.
Pick up prescription at the pharmacy ( Read more... )

You'll notice the missing gender cues. I'm getting a little too good at reframing my past in an ambiguous way. *sigh* Anyway, don't read if Blatant Examples of Racism bother you. It's just some stuff I'm... remembering?

( Blathering on about racism a little )

This is a tutoring session assessment comment that was turned in to me today, from a college sophomore. It was handwritten, and for words that I couldn't read, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that all the letters were there and correct. All spacing and capitalization remain consistent with the original document ( Read more... )

I meant to write something ensightful and eloquent in here about my course work, which, at the moment, is focused on the lower educational expectations set for children of parents in poverty; however, I'm having a particularly difficult time divorcing myself from some personal issues which make it uncomfortable for me to fully participate in a ( Read more... )

Helms (1990) describes the evolution of a positive White racial identity as involving both the abandonment of racism and the development of a nonracist White identity. In order to do the latter, he or she must accept his or her own Whiteness, the cultural implications of being White, and define a view of Self as a racial being that does not depend ( Read more... )

I went to my local library today for the first time since I've lived here. It was mostly part of an assignment but I also wanted to have a look around.

Anyway, the assignment was to list all the languages there are books written in at my library.
( here's my list )

This is the first quote on the first page of the first chapter of my literacy textbook ( Read more... )