Last night I read 12 out of the 24 drafts of Paper #1. Overall, the students have a grasp on how to write a paper like this. Their audience is their peers so I want them to start the process of writing papers for this class as comfortably as possible, that way, they feel more comfortable (hopefully) in progressing toward Paper #2 which is a research based paper.
The largest problem I see with the papers thus far is that many of them are focusing more on a literature history than an identity autobiography as related to literacy. They need to see identity as the big "thing" and literacy as the little "thing" that I'm looking for within their paper. Perhaps a better way to put that is that I am looking for their focus to be their identity and evidence of it through literacy to essentially "back it up."
I can't wait to finish reading the papers, the students show some real effort in exploring their identities and themselves.
Today we'll begin talking about Unit 2: Identity struggles through land and health. Within this Unit we will be focusing heavily on All Our Relations by Winona LaDuke. Hopefully this will give them a real-world idea of what's still going on within Indian Reservations and around them, impacting their abilities to live and ways of life.
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