Summary
The Malcolm X reading taught us about using your literacy sponsors to help you get motivated to read like Malcolm X did. Its fascinating how much reading he accomplished in the Jail and how literate he became. The Alexie reading talked about how much expectations can weigh on someone and their literacy learning. I know if my expectations were low I wouldn't have any motivation to do better. Lastly the Hooks reading taught how putting memory's to paper can make you reflect on your memories more and how they might change.

Synthesis
The article I thought was most interesting was the Malcolm X article. The reason I saw the inspiring was because Malcolm stood up for what he believed and the way he got their was from the result of jail. He became an educated person in jail, reading books non stop through the night with as little as 3-4 hours of sleep a night. That is dedication to literacy and I don't think I have heard of someone in that situation Malcolm was in and creating benefits from it.

Malcolm X Reading

Discussion and Journaling:

1: Malcolm X's intended audience I think is people who are struggling in life, or having hard times. I think that because Malcolm X had a run in with the law and was struggling and decided reading was his way out of trouble.

3: Malcolm X's main literacy sponsor was Mr. Muhammad, Malcolm read many of his books and learned the history of African Americans from him. I would say Malcolm's main literary sponsor institution wise would be Jail. That's When Malcolm really started reading and becoming well known with books and the dictionary.

6: Getting good grades is my motivation to decide what I want to read or how much to read. We gain so much knowledge from reading and I would say most the things we have to learn are from the books. So, my motivation to read is getting good grades.

Alexie Reading

Applying and Exploring

1: Expectations can have huge impact on children's literacy learning. If my expectations were held to a standard of people not being able to think I could read I would not have any motivation to learn to read. If my expectations were held to a high standard I would have every intention in the world to have high literacy learning. In baseball I was held to high standards, the only thing about that was it made me way better at baseball. It also helped when you try to play up to someone that has even higher standards that way it makes you a better player.

Hooks

As you Read

1: Its crazy to think that we have always had memories that have been fictionalized because everything in my memory I think as being real and not made up. Just goes to show you that our minds are interesting. I wonder if their is still a lot more that doctors or scientist don't know about our minds and the correlation of memory.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling

4: At the beginning of the article I see her kind of being shy about putting words to paper maybe because its one of the first times shes writing an autobiography. Towards the end of the article she starts becoming more confident and it was easier for her to put words down on to paper.

Applying and Exploring

3: When you try to recall a memory and you're putting it to paper I think you reflect on the memory more than just thinking about it, so maybe the memories might change because when you write them out they become more clear than when you just think about them in your mind. Sometime people might even exaggerate their story when they write it down to make it sound more interesting.