Jack's Folio

“any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy” 1)Sponsors help the sponsored gain knowledge through different literary moments. While this benefits the sponsored, it also helps progress the sponsor also. For example, whenever i would ask for help with my biology class from my neighbor in my dorm, she would not mind explaining the information because it also helped her and understand it better. In a…

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Brandt annotations On the left side of the margin i asked a question about how skills can be at the demand of the economy. But after further reading i was able to understand how there is a somewhat of a supply and demand with certain skilled workers. This produces an economy that is headed in a certain future with technology making some skilled jobs useless. In this passage Brandt put together that sponsors determine a person’s relationships as they are…

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Researching After looking up my name on the internet there are no longer pictures of me that are directly on the top or the first page. But there is now only pictures of a convicted serial killer with a similar name.  There used to be photos of me wearing my old school store’s clothing. This was because i was asked to be used as a model for the store’s website. Reflecting If someone looked me up they would have assumed…

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Managing my Time During my entire High School career, I did not have to worry when I did assignments because they took less than 20 minutes to do. This overtime caused me to think that waiting until the last second to do my homework was an alright thing to do. When I first got to college I assumed that it would require the same effort level. After I got through the first month of college I realized how this type…

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Signaling Changes Original Revised I made the change to the beginning of this sentence because without the point that it is my idea, the reader would assume it was Gee’s idea. This makes sense because i put my idea right after a quote and did not try to distinguish them both. Original Revised   Right after i explain an idea from Cuddy i follow it up with an idea that i have. Without signalling the reader would just assume that…

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Annotation Explanation I annotated this because this is the example that foreshadows his conclusion about how the girl’s Dominant Secondary Discourse effects her Primary Discourse. This also shows Gee’s point about how she is what we call natural talent, this is what it develops it. This annotation is important because Gee is showing how Discourse cannot be absent from things such as Values, Assumptions, and Beliefs. This makes sense because this is what makes each Discourse unique and why it…

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Gee describes Discourses as a social experience that helps shape who you are as a person. People who also share a Discourse are usually close friends or family. Other experiences can also happen through previous Discourses, this is called a secondary Discourse. Through these levels of Discourse, is how we live our lives and who we talk or interact with. These experiences shape who a person is and how they are brought up. This can be seen when Cuddy watches…

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A Discourse is not valued as one type of action or belief, but one whole combination of them all. This is because a discourse or life event that has shaped someone is not one emotion or one way of viewing or hearing it.  It is a combination of every aspect that shapes an event that changes a person’s view or opinion. My own example of Discourse is during sophomore i played lacrosse and started, i was not respected as a…

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My workplace is where i can focus on one thing while everything is changing around me. We constantly have people that stop by and hang out in our room. This causes work to be done much slower than normal, But when i am at my desk everything else doesn’t matter. I can relate to Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose workplace happens to be at the train station in that picture. While in his thought everything else seems unimportant, this can be…

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When I was reading the comments from my peers, I realized how much I had to improve my essay. After reading through them, I began to rewrite my literacy moment. I took notice to the details that needed to be added to further describe my literary moment. My biggest problem described by my peers, was that I needed to tie in my body paragraphs to my introduction. Without this connection, my essay had a mix match of story and ideas…

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