2. Comple
•
Increasingly
x
"Literacy is like the y value." • " Literacy would appear to be one of
Ashley Ross Important
the few elements of education that
• There has been numerous efforts everyone agrees to be a necessity of
to define literacy and " each of modernity" John Szwed
these efforts has identified • "Historically, literacy has been a potent
important parameters of literacy tool in maintaining the hegemony of
, but none has yet won elites and dominant classes in certain
consensual agreement." Sylvia societies" Scribner
Scribner
Undefine Not measurable
• d
"[Literacy] practices are not • "What is literature? No agreement"
observable units of behavior since John Szwed
they also involve • "Although literacy is a problem of
values, attitudes, feelings and social pressing national concern, we have
relationships" Barton and Hamilton yet to discover or set it's
boundaries." Sylvia Scribner

3. I believe that the ability to
read, write, and understand the
written word can be broken up into
smaller groups. I call these little
subgroups literacies. A literacy is a
group of words or phrases that are
used for a specific field or purpose.
For instance an equine literacy
would include all words and
phrases relating to equine.
Including coat colors such as
palomino and dun, and diseases
such as colic and founder.

5. Literacy is an extremely complex subject. There have been numerous efforts to
define literacy and "each of these efforts has identified important parameters of
literacy, but none has yet won consensual agreement." (Scribner) My belief is that each
person has their own literacy identity. A literacy identity is a grouping of all ones
literacies and a literacy is simple a group of words that are all associated with a similar
subject. In order to have a particular literacy in a literacy identity the person must
understand the words associated with that literacy and know how to use them
intelligently. For my project I will dive into the literacy identities of three sisters from a
small town in Northern Michigan. It will compare the literacy identities of the three sisters
by showing each girl’s literacy identities. Once the literacy Identity is established for each
girl the individual literacies included in their literacy identity will be explained. Also how
the individual may have obtained each literacy will also be included in the project. All of
the required information was obtained through multiply interviews taken with the three
individuals. This project is meant to show that an individual’s environment, friends, and
past experiences have a great effect on their literacy identity.