Learning Log 2

Learning logs: Unit 2
Day 1- February 18, Personal literacy and academic learning-

Marlena Stafford
1. Once we become aware of the various personal literacies we practice

in our lives, we can begin to see their connections to the academic
literate practices we must develop to meet our academic goals.
2. In other words, we make meaning of school content by connecting
our personal lives to our school lives.
3. My reading timeline:
1. When my mother would read my books each night before bed.
2. When I started to learn how to actually read picture books myself.
3. I started reading labels, signs, menus, everything I could understand .
4. I was then able to start reading small chapter books by myself
5. I then would volunteer in class to read aloud and my confidence in
my reading skills grew.
6. For my birthday my aunt gave me my first novel and I was so excited
to read it.
7. I started begging my mother for more books and would read them as
fast as I could.
8. I started babysitting my neighbors and cousins and I would read to
them and help them read by sharing my skills.
9. I started saving money and buying my own books with hard
comprehension so I could get even better at reading.
10. I am very confident in my reading skills and enjoy reading very
much.
Day 2- February 23, You Will Never Believe what happened.- Ron
Christiansen
1. “For humor. For clarifying our view of the world. For asserting our
identity.”
2. “we shape the events in our life so they have a plot, characters,
conflict, and some sort of resolution.”
3. Explain this quote: “If telling stories makes us human, reading stories
seems to put us in touch with our humanity.” That quote is basically
saying that we need stories to relate to life. Reading other peoples
stories makes us human and allows us to focus on life and its
purpose. It is just like a form of communication and it is essential to
human life.
Day 3- February 25, Is That a True Story- Ron Christiansen
1. I had no memory of this, yet I had already written up the story.

2. the minute we start to retell a story from our past we are constructing
it from our point of view, so there’s no need to get too worried about
getting every detail correct. It’s impossible.
3. Truth is complicated because often it comes with shame. Truth can
also be hard to remember, there are complications with the truth and
sometimes those troubles get covered up by the mind so that they
can be forgotten. It can also be difficult to explain truths and what
they entail. The truth is complicated because it can be hard to
understand and even explain.
Day 4- March 2, Adding the Storytellers Toolbox - Clint Johnson
1. 3 ideas: clarity in writing to explain a bigger point, sensory details,

setting the scene up for the reader to understand.
2. The power of scene:starting your profile with an intense, illustrative
vignette showing
The power of experience:S tories can provide new experiences by
which people can make sense of the claims they encounter.
The power of sensory detail: Stories can provide new experiences by
which people can make sense of the claims they encounter.
The power of voice: find quotes that work similarly, allowing you to
draw a reader’s focus to your opponents’ statements, their voices,
without using your own voice
The power of conflict: when different individuals or groups have
competing interests and take action trying to achieve their personal
goals
Day 5- March 4, Memorability: 6 Keys for Success” -- Nikki Mantyla
1. The acronym success can make me a better writer because by using

them I intrigue my reader in many fields and have more effective writing. By
using the acronym I can lead the audience in and not lose their attention,
therefore being successful in writing.
2. Simple: Keep it concise and get to the point instead of going off track
and losing the audience's attention.
Unexpected: An element of surprise gives the audience laughs and
hooks them to the story.
Concrete: Using descriptive words to describe a feeling without just
saying how you feel. It makes the audience more included and does not
give it away.
Credible: Take advantage of sources and get as much credibility as you
can for proof and for background information.
Emotional: People remember how they feel and you want to give them
emotions that will last and what the people will remember about your story.
Story-based: Have a plot to follow so there is change in emotion and
thoughts to keep the audience interested.
Day 6- March 10, “Story as Rhetorical: We Can’t Escape the Story No Matter
How Hard We Try” - Ron Christiansen
1. “I have much anecdotal evidence that students choose to write
stories when given a chance.” This is ironic because it shows that
students will write good stories when they have a choice, instead of
being forced.
2. “Rhetoric is a code word for rigorous.” This is ironic because rhetoric
is used for many things and this is saying it is just another way to say
strict.
3. “story is the method by which we understand the world and our place
in it.” This is ironic because it explains that when telling a story we
can truly use it to establish a place in the world for oneself and know
where you belong.
4. A story is an argument because it is establishing one's beliefs and
views of the world. This is arguing because someone else can have a
completely different point of view of the world or a specific scenario
and the story will tell it the way that another person sees things.
Day 7- March 15, “The Narrative Effect: Story As the Forward Frame” Lisa
Bickmore
1. How is a story underlying all understanding:
-writers create new worlds
-stories create an argument of what reality is
-the narrative effect in writing
-gives empathy and different types of feelings
-rhetorical appeal to make the reader question
2. “stories also help readers understand why and under what conditions
the story matters. This, by the way, is true of most kinds of writing
that matter to readers” This formultes my memoir/profile to remind
me to make the story matter and be important so the reader can
understand what i am saying and what difference i am bringing to the
surface.
Day 8 - March 17, “Punctuation, memes, and choice” - Nikki Mantyla

1. “Mastering punctuation’s power expands our repertoire for
conveying meaning.”
“The better our skills, the more our personal style and voice can
shine.”
2. “the longer you take to get to the period, the more emphasis gets lost
along the way.”
“Therefore, the shorter the paragraph, the more it will stand out.”
3. “Semicolons emphasize a connection between the statements.”
“you make a statement suggesting more info to follow, place a colon
where you could end with a period, and then deliver on the
expectations by providing extra details: like this.”
4. “You place parentheses around unimportant parts of the sentence
that could be completely removed without changing the overall
meaning.”
“One reason for adding spaces — formatted like this on both sides
of each em dash — is that they lengthen the marks”
5. “A quotation comma can take the place of a formal intro with a
colon.”
“A series comma replaces or precedes the word and in a list in order
to separate the items.”
Day 9- March 22, “peer review” - Jim Beatty
1. Response to quote: The least helpful thing to do when peer reviewing
is grammar and typos because that does not influence the paper
enough to be peer reviewed when the base of the story needs to be
reviewed. The outcome of the paper is going to be how strong the
writing is and if it flows well, not so much the typos.
2. The best writing does come from communal effort because if we can
all work together and make edits, it makes the writing stronger and
more influential with more ideas and focus from more than one mind.
When other people give you ideas and input, it can open your eyes a
little and make the change in your writing that needs to be done.
Isolation makes the brain tired and not as fresh to new ideas and well
balanced writing.

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Learning logs: Unit 2

Day 1- February 18, Personal literacy and academic learning-

1. Once we become aware of the various personal literacies we practice

Day 3- February 25, Is That a True Story- Ron Christiansen

1. I had no memory of this, yet I had already written up the story.

Day 4- March 2, Adding the Storytellers Toolbox - Clint Johnson

1. 3 ideas: clarity in writing to explain a bigger point, sensory details,

1. The acronym success can make me a better writer because by using

Day 8 - March 17, “Punctuation, memes, and choice” - Nikki Mantyla

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