1) What is your literacy narrative in a few words? My literacy narrative is about...You‘ll share and post it. 2) Log into thedaln.org and search for a narrative that shares some keywords or connections to yours 3) Read that narrative or listen to that narrative 4) What is the literacy narrative about in a few words? You‘ll share and post it to the Padlet. 5) What shared connections do you see between narratives? Make connections in Padlet. by Caleb

My Literacy Narrative

caleb_gonzalez — 2024-06-27 17:42:33 UTC

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Literacy Narrative from The DALN

caleb_gonzalez — 2024-06-27 17:42:49 UTC

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Anahi

2024-06-27 18:34:11 UTC

My narrative is about how I used to hate reading and I'd only do it when I was able to get a prize for doing so. Then this one day I went to my cousins house and she opened my eyes to a new genre of books and now I love to read.

2024-06-27 18:34:13 UTC

My narrative is about music and storytelling and how it can make you feel

Justin Summary of Literacy Narrative

2024-06-27 18:34:37 UTC

My literacy Narratives is about my blind cousin who plays the piano and how he has impacted the way I view the world around me.

Andy

2024-06-27 18:34:42 UTC

My literary narrative is about the first time I learned how to drive and how my emotions and feelings changed the more I drove.

Aaliyah

2024-06-27 18:34:44 UTC

My literacy narrative is about mine, my sisters, and my moms experience with literacy.

Sophia Rodriguera

2024-06-27 18:34:49 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how the works of my favorite artists (Frank Ocean, Faye Webster, Clairo, and Billie Eilish) impacted my life.

My literacy Narrative- Alan Velazquez

2024-06-27 18:34:52 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how I went from hating reading and writing to later enjoying it so much that I started my own comics series

My Literacy Narrative-Joseph

2024-06-27 18:35:11 UTC

My Literacy Narrative is about my dislike for traditional books and how anime has helped me read more. It has helped me by leaving me curious as to what the next episode or season is about so I would start reading the mangas the anime were based on and from there I started liking reading more.

Catlynn Carrizales

2024-06-27 18:35:36 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how negative literacy sponsors can impact one’s overall outcomes of interest and passion. I later reflect on how beneficial literacy has been in my life personally after overcoming the challenge of negative influences.

Literacy Narrative- Aylin

2024-06-27 18:36:10 UTC

My literacy narrative is about my relationship with being bilingual. I talked about how Spanish was my first language, and how I struggled learning English. I mentioned the ways that I learned English. But then towards the middle I talked about how English basically took over, I felt like my Spanish was disappearing. I also mention some examples about that. After that I talked about how I got back into Spanish, and how I use it in my everyday life. I mention examples and people that helped me get my Spanish back.

Rebecca

2024-06-27 18:38:04 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how I used to hate playing instruments and how over the years my love for them started to grow. Music had impacted me a lot since it was a way of communicating through a different way. It also includes all the struggles I had gone through with learning these new instruments.

Leo

2024-06-27 18:41:18 UTC

My narrative is about how sports/soccer was an escape to get away from things.

2024-06-27 18:55:29 UTC

My mind struggled as I tried to focus on the first word but, I just couldn't the words all began to swirl around on the page as I attempted to understand.

2024-06-27 18:56:11 UTC

"It had a significant impact on my bilingual identity."

2024-06-27 18:57:02 UTC

"When I was younger, I hated reading because I found it so boring. None of the books we read in school were interesting, and reading wasn’t my strongest suit."

2024-06-27 18:57:15 UTC

I felt everyone's eyes burning into my body as they all passed their judgment onto me.

2024-06-27 18:57:33 UTC

As I was scrolling on youtube looking for something to fight my boredom, I stumbled upon a video titled “Billie Eilish: Same Interview, One Year Apart”.

2024-06-27 18:58:54 UTC

"Growing up, English was not my primary language, it wasn’t something I would hear as often as I do now."

2024-06-27 18:59:00 UTC

The room went silent, I glanced at the teacher with an urgent look for support, he glanced back at the page with disapproval and said “Seriously, thanks for delaying class, we will talk after class,”

2024-06-27 18:59:20 UTC

I was never interested in reading books. They were too boring and hard to focus on due to the use of only words and long paragraphs

2024-06-27 18:59:49 UTC

"Writing has allowed me to write down everything I'm feeling, especially when I'm too scared to talk to someone in person about it."

2024-06-27 19:00:05 UTC

When I was selected to read the Bible it was alway with time to study and practice and almost every night my mom

2024-06-27 19:00:11 UTC

I encourage people to trust their own work instead of comparing it to others since everyone is different

2024-06-27 19:00:31 UTC

I walked home that day with complete embarrassment how could I not read and understand things that many were able to.

2024-06-27 19:00:33 UTC

Coming from a very musical family, growing up felt like being surrounded by a bubble of music at all times

2024-06-27 19:00:54 UTC

"I remember feeling scared and anxious."

2024-06-27 19:00:55 UTC

There was nothing to keep me entertained and my eyes always looked for something “more” that a traditional book could never have, drawings.

literacy narrative

2024-06-27 19:01:02 UTC

My Narrative is about how sports/soccer was an escape.

2024-06-27 19:01:06 UTC

"I really wanted a prize and that's why I read the books. Of course I chose books that seemed interesting which were hard to find but I never thought about reading books just for fun."

2024-06-27 19:01:39 UTC

Ms. Owen who was always encouraging me to continue writing my stories

2024-06-27 19:01:49 UTC

"When I got home, that's all I was thinking about, I started getting excited about learning literacy and I thought “finally doing something right”.

2024-06-27 19:01:50 UTC

My mom would boast about how she wouldn’t even have to attend conferences because, “I already know what they’re going to say.”

2024-06-27 19:02:02 UTC

The 5 story long pages confuse me and the words flying off the page don’t help either.

2024-06-27 19:02:32 UTC

During that time I created my own original story and original characters in the world of Pokemon

2024-06-27 19:02:32 UTC

"When I was first introduced to music I had found no passion and interest to learn about it"

2024-06-27 19:02:36 UTC

I was a great listener, just not a phenomenal reader.

2024-06-27 19:03:07 UTC

"I remember her saying, 'Oh, and then there’s this book I’m reading.' 'Ew, books? That’s gross!,' was my automatic response."

2024-06-27 19:03:09 UTC

Respect their personal feelings and things they don’t like.

2024-06-27 19:03:28 UTC

"God gave you what you could handle"

2024-06-27 19:03:40 UTC

I was captivated by the art style and the fantasy theme it brought along with it

2024-06-27 19:03:45 UTC

I felt like a bear spying for food in the middle of the night with me looking out for cars or anything in general that could change the way I'm driving, especially since it was my first time.

2024-06-27 19:03:50 UTC

"After that day in class, I started to love English and writing stories."

2024-06-27 19:04:07 UTC

"I began to notice more and more people were like me and in addition to that, it became less celebrated and more expected."

2024-06-27 19:04:28 UTC

But, these episodes would sometimes leave on cliff hangers or the season would end, which left me full of curiosity and a need to find answers to what happens next.

2024-06-27 19:04:34 UTC

"I would hate to learn about all the note scales that the teacher was teaching because of the fact that it would get repetitive."

2024-06-27 19:04:35 UTC

" English has now taken over my life."

2024-06-27 19:04:39 UTC

I had no idea where to place my hands or even how to move the steering wheel.

2024-06-27 19:04:43 UTC

If you lose a sense, your other senses are heightened.

2024-06-27 19:04:52 UTC

The problem wasn't about popularity, it was about how every time I opened my mouth nothing came out. “She doesn’t talk that much.”

2024-06-27 19:05:18 UTC

When I was growing up as a kid, at the age of 3 I was sick in the hospital with a sickness called RSV or the full title Respiratory, Syncytial, Virus.

2024-06-27 19:05:26 UTC

This happened more and more often that I would read any manga that looked interesting. I even read manga with no anime adaptations or in different genres, ranging from romance, school life, horror, etc

2024-06-27 19:05:47 UTC

Open minded when talking with other people of other ethnicities and not being stereotypical of others.

2024-06-27 19:05:50 UTC

"My relationship with reading and writing thus far has been pretty positive. When I read, I read with enjoyment and when I write, I write with a purpose."

2024-06-27 19:06:26 UTC

" The books interested my younger mind way more than learning my times tables or completing my assignments and my teachers couldn’t really scold me for that so it made it an even better escape from my work."

2024-06-27 19:06:30 UTC

Everybody yelled and panicked but it ended up being okay.

2024-06-27 19:06:47 UTC

"She said, 'This book is called ‘Stuck With You’ and it has the guy and girl perspective.'"

2024-06-27 19:07:10 UTC

Those many cliffhangers invoked a sense of curiosity and emptiness that led me to finding the manga it was based on and to now.

2024-06-27 19:07:18 UTC

" i would get in trouble at school for a whole hour so now i have no interest in writing."

2024-06-27 19:07:32 UTC

“I ----” I tried to speak up and defend myself however each time I opened my mouth nothing came out.

2024-06-27 19:07:33 UTC

My next turn was horrible, matter of fact we almost got off the road.

2024-06-27 19:07:59 UTC

"While I had been encouraged and praised, literacy was used as a punishment and not for enjoyment."

2024-06-27 19:08:18 UTC

"So. maybe next year things will go just just as I planned"

Luis

2024-06-27 19:08:32 UTC

my narrative was about music and telling stories through music

2024-06-27 19:08:50 UTC

" I started to find it fun to play specific notes while the other kids sang or danced to the music we were learning to play."

2024-06-27 19:09:19 UTC

Continued to play because he liked classical music and it brought him together with his friends even when he was blind.

2024-06-27 19:09:48 UTC

"My cousins ended up sending me the link and on the hour ride back home I kept reading, and I couldn’t sleep once we got home because I wanted to finish the book. I was intrigued by this book."

2024-06-27 19:09:53 UTC

I never really felt the connection to music I had seen so prevalently within my family

2024-06-27 19:10:13 UTC

being perfectly normal health

2024-06-27 19:10:29 UTC

Taking risks are important, they can lead to what you want to do in life.

2024-06-27 19:10:31 UTC

the vibes felt alone and sad that night

2024-06-27 19:10:49 UTC

"That same year I made a challenge of reading 5 books a month for the whole year, and I even kept a notebook to keep track of how many books I read each month."

2024-06-27 19:11:20 UTC

"The first time I played an instrument it felt as if it was something that I would never be able to do."

2024-06-27 19:11:50 UTC

"Harbor myself away from eveyone else"

2024-06-27 19:12:02 UTC

I respect all the effort they put into each song.

2024-06-27 19:12:45 UTC

" Not only did this help me grow as a reader and improve my vocabulary and how fast I could read, but it made me discover a whole new hobby and allowed me to have something else in common with a lot of people that I now know."

2024-06-27 19:13:37 UTC

the urge to tell a story

2024-06-27 19:14:20 UTC

" However as I got used to all the ways to hold the instrument I had begun to face a different type of challenge"

2024-06-27 19:16:41 UTC

"When I had first played the viola it had felt more natural for me, more comfortable than the first time I had played"

2024-06-27 19:17:31 UTC

i expressed my feelings through music

2024-06-27 19:18:44 UTC

"This time I hadn’t faced a challenge and I was able to play and learn the new notes fairly quickly without having to struggle."

2024-06-27 19:19:25 UTC

stories inspired me

2024-06-27 19:20:49 UTC

I could just be nerdy with in my own stories without those who I didn’t want to read it judge me for it.

2024-06-27 19:20:50 UTC

music helped me get better

2024-06-27 19:21:34 UTC

Now in high school is where I had the chance to actually meet more people who are creating fictional stories of their own just like I was

2024-06-27 19:22:29 UTC

the music helped me listen and get better at it

2024-06-27 19:22:46 UTC

We talked and I explained the powers, backstory, personality, and whatnot

2024-06-27 19:24:17 UTC

My relationship with literacy really started on the ground, there was no joy for me when I was forced to read/write for a grade

2024-06-27 19:25:35 UTC

I felt my palms get sweaty, my hands, back, and everything that could sweat.

2024-06-27 19:25:45 UTC

1. Learned to be patient and 2. Eventually did learn how to read and write in Spanish.

2024-06-27 19:26:51 UTC

Once again we kept on going straight but this time my little sister was throwing a fit which made it harder for me to focus and it kinda got my focus outta the road but I tried my best to keep on focusing or else things could go really bad.

Mario Duron-Orozco

2024-06-27 20:04:29 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how being bilingual impacted my identity in many ways.

Jewel

2024-06-27 20:04:48 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how I gained my love for writing after many years of turning writing down.

Miguel Carrillo

2024-06-27 20:05:19 UTC

My literacy narrative is about being a bilingual student and how that has affected me in the past and now in the current day.

Elianna Morales

2024-06-27 20:05:26 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how baking with my grandma has influenced me as a person. How it taught me a new sense of vocabulary, life lessons, and how to make something delicious.

America

2024-06-27 20:05:36 UTC

My literacy narrative is about how music has impacted me as a bilingual speaker, and how it has helped me learn more about the writing process.

Betzabe

2024-06-27 20:05:58 UTC

My literacy narrative is how anime impacted my life. The three examples I used were how One Piece has taught me about the world, Haikyuu has taught me how to play volleyball, and Dr. Stone has taught me about science.

Erick Gonzales

2024-06-27 20:06:17 UTC

My literacy narrative is about my love-hate relationship with reading. I’ve never liked reading books by makes but I loved the stories that they told. I fell out of love with reading because of how slow I was reading books. All my classmates read books way faster than me and they got so far ahead smile I was still on chapter one. I eventually found a book that I enjoyed and began to read books again.

Salma

2024-06-27 20:06:37 UTC

My Literacy Narrative is about the struggles of having to take ESL classes as a Spanish speaker only.

2024-06-27 20:21:30 UTC

Me learning English.

2024-06-27 20:22:28 UTC

"We made what I now know is called Skillet Apple Crisp"

2024-06-27 20:23:39 UTC

"I fell out of love with reading. I didn’t want to read another page of a fiction title, especially one by Jerry Spinelli."

2024-06-27 20:24:19 UTC

"Other people can learn that writing is a safe environment to express yourself and the unknown."

2024-06-27 20:24:32 UTC

"I learned new vocabulary such as kneading, folding, dotting, using the double boiler method, the difference between stiff and soft peaks, etc. This was my baking literacy."

2024-06-27 20:25:03 UTC

At a very young age, I couldn’t even speak.

2024-06-27 20:25:21 UTC

"I felt like I didn’t fit in with everyone else because they could all talk to each other as if it was a secret language."

2024-06-27 20:25:51 UTC

"it's all thanks to the one I call “Grandma”."

2024-06-27 20:26:22 UTC

" such as having exuberant Quincenearas "

2024-06-27 20:26:32 UTC

"Memories with her make me want to write"

2024-06-27 20:27:10 UTC

"I started off with two groups which were BTS and Stray Kids, those two groups made me realize that even if you don’t speak or understand that language you can still like it."

2024-06-27 20:27:13 UTC

"I always saw my friends staying in the classroom while I went to another, I would always get so mad and frustrated because I felt like I was missing out in class."

2024-06-27 20:27:33 UTC

"It never ceased to amaze me that you could put a liquid into the oven and it would come out as a fluffy cake."

2024-06-27 20:27:41 UTC

"One Piece discusses many issues that the world has experienced or is experiencing."

2024-06-27 20:27:50 UTC

"The unknown is in my recent journal that I write in today."

2024-06-27 20:28:12 UTC

Echale ganas

2024-06-27 20:28:27 UTC

"Still reluctant to enjoy reading, I watched the video and was astonished by the words and imagery that I had been looking for. The color of the words and the taste of the rhythm."

2024-06-27 20:28:58 UTC

"As my life started to get more serious with many responsibilities I had to find a way to find comfort in the world while many experiences such as getting a job, experiencing relationships, and taking care of myself, etc were shaping my life at the same time to make me who I am today."

2024-06-27 20:29:06 UTC

"Who knew that something so simple could taste so delicious."

2024-06-27 20:29:20 UTC

Como se dice

2024-06-27 20:29:59 UTC

"Afterwards, I never experienced that flavor of lyrical love again from a book."

2024-06-27 20:30:24 UTC

"she was behind the scenes measuring and whisking the ingredients making sure there were no clumps in sight.'

2024-06-27 20:30:39 UTC

"I realized writing is a very emotional way of connecting and expressing myself through words that are unknown to others."

2024-06-27 20:30:46 UTC

"English eventually became an easy language to me and I started to get very into English music and American artists like Ariana Grande, Melanie Martinez, Billie eilish etc."

2024-06-27 20:30:49 UTC

" I recall that she would hug me tightly, and ask me one simple question. . ."

2024-06-27 20:31:05 UTC

"I find that surprising considering how I now struggle with the worst testing anxiety."

2024-06-27 20:31:43 UTC

" thanks to Haikyuu I learned how to play volleyball."

2024-06-27 20:32:46 UTC

" being Mexican is my entire identity "

2024-06-27 20:32:49 UTC

"My deep desire to write and express myself was complicated."

2024-06-27 20:33:54 UTC

"I was embarrassed that I was getting left behind, and at one point I was even embarrassed that I knew Spanish."

2024-06-27 20:34:12 UTC

"Learning to love the unknown isn't always easy and can come with many ups and downs to even have the courage to write, speak, or even read about our own identity"

2024-06-27 20:34:12 UTC

"I had tried my hardest to keep up with the pace in the class and read at the same pace as others but, I ultimately failed and never got to read the end of the book as I had moved school later that year."

2024-06-27 20:34:45 UTC

"Throughout the time we tried new recipes I learned to experiment and not be afraid of failure."

2024-06-27 20:34:52 UTC

" [language allows for] our emotions to be connected and for our identities to grow and be dynamic "

2024-06-27 20:36:07 UTC

" reading picture books in English, over and over and over again "

2024-06-27 20:36:36 UTC

"I loved to listen to stories from everyone: the vivid transporting details and the imagery of the characters."

2024-06-27 20:36:47 UTC

"English was never necessarily something I wanted to learn it was more like I had to learn it in order to make friends and actually be good in school"

2024-06-27 20:36:54 UTC

"I hated being the only one to not know English"

2024-06-27 20:37:01 UTC

" ashamed "

2024-06-27 20:38:14 UTC

"About a week later, we all gathered in the ESL room for our last meeting of the year."

2024-06-27 20:38:19 UTC

" In the anime, Senku teaches us about science through chemistry, physics, geology, engineering, and more."

2024-06-27 20:39:12 UTC

" I didn’t get back into reading until the end of my 7th grade year when I got back into poetry."

2024-06-27 20:39:19 UTC

I tried and tried but it just wouldn’t stick

2024-06-27 20:39:32 UTC

"I recall filling in each bubble on the test one by one, filled with patience and serenity"

2024-06-27 20:40:01 UTC

"I found out that to be like the people in those books, I had to go beyond books and open up more, just like I would with each page."

2024-06-27 20:40:30 UTC

"Music has helped me be more in touch with my culture and also be close to my mom since we like a lot of the same Latino/Latina artists like Mon Laferte, Jenni rivera, Karol G"

2024-06-27 20:42:09 UTC

"Music is something that most people don’t realize has a big impact on their lives and even in their music literacy"

2024-06-27 20:44:32 UTC

"I appreciate how music has changed and helped me learn more about languages and even how to express myself through the creative process of writing and how it has helped me feel more comfortable with my first language and with my own culture"

2024-06-27 20:44:42 UTC

"I like One Piece because every character has a traumatic background story."

2024-06-27 20:46:23 UTC

"I went into kindergarten not knowing a single word in English"