Please note the different breadth and spread of this schema assignment, versus Exploratory #1: I am making you responsible for a much larger conversation and, therefore, a more multivocal demonstration of the term “literacy”. This means, I'll be interested in how you can unflatten the term, identify its nuances or traces, and bring those traces into deeper relief. As before, I encourage you to think of your schema not as an outline, but as an intellectual map.
Most schemas combine the visual and the textual, and sometimes they look like trees, database structures, venn diagrams, charts, or architectural drawings. You have absolute creative license in terms of how you will compose your schema. In fact, you may make it as layered as you would like—even topographic—if you think a multi-dimensional map would better demonstrate the depth of their work. Your schema will likely need some prose explanation (perhaps even selective quoting), as well as a symbol key or a guide. As such, please include the MLA citation and use in-text (parenthetical) citations where needed.
Finally, feel free to draw on any resource available to you, including our online glossaries and easy reference guides. Texts from other classes or disciplines are absolutely welcome. In sum, though you are not required to draw on other sources, whatever you do find to help you enhance your schema is fair game, as long as they are trustworthy (e.g., robust, creative commons, or peer-reviewed), and as long as you report the sources and share how you came about them.
I'll suggest the following working teams:
- Anna and Tyreek
- Charise and Travis
- Erik and Joe
- Julianna and Netty
- Mackenzie and Mandy
Please upload your completed schema to our shared Google Drive space by the beginning of class time on Thursday, October 30, and bring a hard or digital copy to class for our discussion (just in case).
For your follow-up critical blog post (which you will do individually), please reflect on the schema assignment and how some aspect of the task illumined/complicated/addressed/extended your reading of our texts for this week. This critical blog post is somewhat formal, rather than a simple reflection. It should be a minimum of 2-3 well developed paragraphs in length (a couple of screens), and my great desire is to see you engage expertly with both task and texts, at times speaking through or alongside what we read, and speaking with some insight about what we read (citing where necessary and embedding links where relevant). Be sure to define terms and unpack assumptions for us, using your posts as occasions to teach. Because the blog is somewhat performative, I'll ask you to title your posts creatively (or insightfully). Feel free to compose your post as a response to someone else’s, if you see an interesting conversation starting on the blog.
This is work, but have fun with it!
