101 Intro to Literacy Narrative Professor Ramos Blog

101 Intro to Literacy Narrative Intro to Literacy Narrative Quick Write What is literacy? The ability to read and write. Competence or knowledge in a specified area. The second definition is the one we will be focusing on in this class. What is something that you have had to learn recently? How did you begin to learn it? Did someone help you? Intro to Literacy Narrative A Literacy Narrative tells a story about something you have learned. Write a literacy narrative of your own, perhaps recalling how you learned to read or write. The focus of this paper is on the  learning. How did you learn? How did your sponsor help you to learn? How does learning this literacy relate to learning other literacies? Remember that there are many kinds of literacy. The narrative you compose may be about your encounters with paintings, films, music, fashion, architecture, or video games. Or it may explore any intellectual passion you have. From Graphic Design, to Mathematics, to a Foreign Language. Requirements 1,000+ words Tells a story about a literacy or a sponsor of literacy MLA Format 1+ relevant Image(s) Appropriate Structure Rough Draft Revised Draft Final Draft posted on class blog Here is a sample literacy narrative from a previous class  that you can use as a model as well.  The BFG and A Little Me. If you want to read more about literacy narratives, here are two great sources to check out. College Writing Tips: Write a Good Literacy Narrative Writing a Literacy Narrative Literacies Let’s come up with a big list of literacies that we can write about. Take two minutes and write down two or three literacies you have learned. Share with a partner. Read/Write Drive a car ? Literacy Sponsors A literacy sponsor is someone or something that helps you or hurts you when learning a literacy. Who are some possible sponsors? Teachers/Professors Parents ? Four Defining Traits of a Game Goal. The outcome that the players will work to achieve. It focuses attention and gives you a sense of purpose. Rules. Limitations on how to achieve the goal. It will unleash creativity and foster strategic thinking. Feedback System. Tells players how close they are to achieving their goal. Provides motivation to keep playing. Voluntary Participation. Requires that you knowingly accept the goal, rules, and the feedback. You have the freedom to enter and leave the game at will. With these four ideas in mind, how can we apply this to college? 101 Intro to Literacy Narrative Intro to Literacy Narrative Quick Write What is literacy? The ability to read and write. Competence or knowledge in a specified area. The second definition is the one we will be focusing on in this class. What is something that you have had to learn recently? How did you begin to learn it? Did someone help you? Intro to Literacy Narrative A Literacy Narrative tells a story about something you have learned. Write a literacy narrative of your own, perhaps recalling how you learned to read or write. The focus of this paper is on the  learning. How did you learn? How did your sponsor help you to learn? How does learning this literacy relate to learning other literacies? Remember that there are many kinds of literacy. The narrative you compose may be about your encounters with paintings, films, music, fashion, architecture, or video games. Or it may explore any intellectual passion you have. From Graphic Design, to Mathematics, to a Foreign Language. Requirements 1,000+ words Tells a story about a literacy or a sponsor of literacy MLA Format 1+ relevant Image(s) Appropriate Structure Rough Draft Revised Draft Final Draft posted on class blog Here is a sample literacy narrative from a previous class  that you can use as a model as well.  The BFG and A Little Me. If you want to read more about literacy narratives, here are two great sources to check out. College Writing Tips: Write a Good Literacy Narrative Writing a Literacy Narrative Literacies Let’s come up with a big list of literacies that we can write about. Take two minutes and write down two or three literacies you have learned. Share with a partner. Read/Write Drive a car ? Annotate Your Texts How to Annotate To summarize how you will annotate text: 1. Identify the BIG IDEA 2. Underline topic sentences or main ideas 3. Connect ideas with arrows 4. Ask questions 5. Add personal notes 6. Define technical words â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† The writing process is a very important concept that you need to learn. This will move you from writing ok papers to good papers. The first draft is the down draft. The second draft is the up draft. The third draft is the dental draft. Anne Lamott, â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† Take a couple minutes and read the short article. Annotate the text. Four Defining Traits of a Game Goal. The outcome that the players will work to achieve. It focuses attention and gives you a sense of purpose. Rules. Limitations on how to achieve the goal. It will unleash creativity and foster strategic thinking. Feedback System. Tells players how close they are to achieving their goal. Provides motivation to keep playing. Voluntary Participation. Requires that you knowingly accept the goal, rules, and the feedback. You have the freedom to enter and leave the game at will. With these four ideas in mind, how can we apply this to college?

Life Cycle of The Queen Bumblebee

Life Cycle of The Queen Bumblebee There are more than 255 species of bumblebees worldwide. All share similar physical features: they are round and fuzzy insects with short wings which flap back and forth rather than up and down. Unlike honey bees, bumblebees are not aggressive, are unlikely to sting, and produce relatively little honey. Bumblebees are, however, major pollinators. Beating their wings as fast as 130 times per second, their large bodies vibrate very quickly. This movement releases pollen, helping crops to grow.  Ã‚   The health and well-being of a bumblebee colony depend very largely on the queen bee. The queen, alone, is responsible for bumblebee reproduction; the other bees in the colony spend the majority of their time caring for the queen and her offspring. Unlike honey bees, which overwinter as a colony by clustering together, bumblebees (Genus Bombus) live from spring to fall. Only the fertilized bumblebee queen will survive the winter by finding shelter from the freezing temperatures. She spends the long, cold winter hidden away alone.   The Queen Bumblebee Emerges In spring, the queen emerges and searches for a suitable nest site, typically in an abandoned rodent nest or small cavity. In this space, she builds a ball of moss, hair, or grass, with a single entrance. Once the queen has constructed a suitable home, she prepares for her offspring. Preparing for Bumblebee Offspring The spring queen builds a wax honey pot and provisions it with nectar and pollen. Next, she collects pollen and forms it into a mound on the floor of her nest. She then lays eggs in the pollen and coats it with wax secreted from her body. Like a mother bird, the Bombus queen uses the warmth of her body to incubate her eggs. She sits on the pollen mound and raises her body temperature to between 98 ° and 102 ° Fahrenheit. For nourishment, she consumes honey from her wax pot, which is positioned within her reach. In four days, the eggs hatch. The Queen Bee Becomes a Mother The bumblebee queen continues her maternal care, foraging for pollen and feeding her offspring until they pupate. Only when this first brood emerges as bumblebee adults can she quit the daily tasks of foraging and housekeeping. For the remainder of the year, the queen concentrates her efforts on laying eggs. Workers help incubate her eggs, and the colony swells in number. At the end of summer, she begins laying some unfertilized eggs, which become males. The bumblebee queen allows some of her female offspring to become new, fertile queens. The Bumblebee Circle of Life With new queens ready to continue the genetic line, the bumblebee queen dies, her work complete. As winter approaches, the new queens and males mate. The males die soon after mating. The new generations of bumblebee queens seek shelter for the winter and wait until the following spring to begin new colonies. Many species of bumblebees are now endangered. There are many possible reasons for this, ranging from pollution and habitat loss to climate change.