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Literacy allows me to express my lived experiences with others and to relate to others' experiences

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My literacy shapes my writing in creative fiction. I use research and lessons from past classes to write stories, mainly in fantasy fiction. I use my own education experiences as well as what I've learned throughout college to shape the way I author lesson plans and ideas. To author my own story, literacy shapes the words and thoughts that flow from what I've read before to what I'm reading now. The literacy I pull from is books, songs, art, etc. Experiences are pulled to figure out how to shape my own story in a new way.

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Literacy allows me to connect with others, explain myself via words, emotions or just how I'm acting with everyone around me.

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Literacy has always given me an avenue to find another universe. I've always enthralled myself with literature, it's always been an escape for me.

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Literacy allows me to understand myself and the world around me better. It lets me drive my story in the direction I want it by being able to understand what direction that would even be.

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As someone who grew up in a dual-lingual home, literacy allows me to express my beliefs and passions, while also incorporating my heritage into my expressions

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Name: Patrick Reinking

Pronouns: He/Him

Prompt: Literacy allows me to put thoughts into clear statements; as well as read and take in others’ thoughts or thinking.

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Literacy allows me to think and dream. By both reading and writing, singing and acting, I am able to tap into the creativity that my soul craves. Reading especially allows me to let go of the real world for a while and just be in someone else's narrative. Literacy has given me so much in my life and when I most need it, an escape from reality through literature.

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Literacy gives me the power to make and remake myself. It allows me to explore the world around me, the worlds in books, and the worlds contained in me.

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Michelle  - She/her - Literacy allows me to author my own story because it allows me so many avenues to communicate... reading: in direct downloads from other authors (even one's who have been dead for hundreds of years!) is such exciting communication! In writing screen plays and lessons for my students. I am an artist so my artistry is a HUGE literacy that brings me great JOY! I want to share with my students! and of course verbal literacy!!! Communication with everyone! Connection! 

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Michelle  - She/her - Literacy allows me to author my own story because it allows me so many avenues to communicate... reading: in direct downloads from other authors (even one's who have been dead for hundreds of years!) is such exciting communication! In writing screen plays and lessons for my students. I am an artist so my artistry is a HUGE literacy that brings me great JOY! I want to share with my students! and of course verbal literacy!!! Communication with everyone! Connection! 

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My name I Lorenzo Rivera
Pronouns he/him
Subject Math
Parent of four children: two boys and two girls
Immigrant from Mexico
Literacy allows me to learn and help more people

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Literacy allows me the chance to use words to explain who I am and to explore the world.

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Literacy allows me to have the freedom of expression. It allows me to tell the stories inside of me and allows me to have an outlet to express the things I hold in.

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Literacy allows me to navigate and interact with the world through different lenses and allows me to connect with ideas and people.

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Literacy allows me to express myself in my own way. It has built me up to who I am today through conversations, books, music, moving, and much more. I hope it does the same for my students.

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Ryder Brennan
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Literacy has allowed me to create my on story literally. I'm currently working on a novel, which I hope to someday publish. Literacy gives me the opportunity to tell my story, any story, in any manner I choose.

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Literacy helps me to tell my story, listen and learn from those around me.

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Literacy allows me to process my thoughts and emotions and share them with others.

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Art Literacy allows me to express myself through art and encourage my students to do the same!

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Literacy gives me the words to tell my story, and to better understand the world through the stories that others tell. Seeing myself in texts is relatively easy, but literacy gives me the tools to find others there, too.

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Literacy allows me to author my own stories, to travel time and space, to escape and to remain in my body, to heal and to transform, to provide a voice and my narrative beyond me, literacy allows me legacy

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Alex
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This question makes me think of the zines, queer writing groups, open mic nights, dance performances, art shows, punk rock music videos, and Instagram posts I've used to share who I am throughout the years. I can create counter-narratives to what mainstream society says I should be/behave/act/believe.

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Prompt: Literacy allows one to find the words to properly tell their own stories.  It lets someone express how they are feeling, but they need the right words to be able to convey it to everyone else

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Jamison Schoonover
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Literacy allows me to interact with the world and other people on a higher level. It lets me gather knowledge and think and express my own ideas in the same manner.

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Literacy allows me to control my own narrative; to define myself for myself; to heal; to write and read the stories my soul needs