Consider two distinct places that have impacted your identity development. Create a narrative reflection ?(300 words or more) ?comparing and contrasting

Place-based Literacy Reflection (written in comparison-and-contrast mode)

Directions: Consider two distinct places that have impacted your identity development. Create a narrative reflection  (300 words or more)  comparing and contrasting the culture, customs, rituals, expectations, or the language or dialect of these places, and how they influenced your literacy journey. Feel free to use other theoretical sources that support your narrative restorying of the places that impact your identity growth and development.  Draw on stories, memories, reflections, notes, images, conversations, and diaries as artifacts to construct your writing, seeking to expand on the process of your own identity formation and its spatial relationship to the places you’ve chosen to analyze.  Other Major Requirements:  

• Word count: 300 or more
• (if you have to cite a source) MLA formatting: MLA General FormatLinks to an external site. 
• Title of reflection required 
• Write in compare-and-contrast mode
• Provide images or other multimodal expression of the places you're comparing
• Under all included media, provide a caption; create a table of figures for all media to be more accessible and let the reader know what the image's context is  
• Avoid second person “you/r” unless in quoted material  
• Rubric: derived from: CommonFeedbackChart.docxLinks to an external site. 

You’ll be evaluated on:

• Your creation of this discourse surrounding the places and personal reality through attention to history, personal and communal rituals, customs, traditions, languages, rhetorical arguments, and/or respective realities. 
• The depth of your critical comparison and contrast in describing the places AND in describing how this place has shaped you, incorporating key class themes, terms, and perspectives that relate to your own experience, or relate to how you have re-experienced this discourse community. 
• Your willingness to be honest and vulnerable with the reader, however you define those terms. In other words, your attempt to be personal, divulging, and expressive with your inner thoughts, feelings, and realizations. And trustworthy for your reader to believe.  
• Your formal and academic writing style. Connect with your voice, but with professionalism, taking class readings as samples of such intellectual styles. 
• Your careful organization of writing and media (with captions for accessibility) through development of points, ideas, emotions, experiences, and the like, so that your paper is a thoughtful and well-structured account of this discourse community and its effect on you, thus flowing from one idea to the next in a sequence which effectively guides the reader through your thought processes and evolution. 

Suggested (not required) content for your comparison and contrast: 

• Places around your chosen place/space– how is an ecology of place formed? 
• Multiple places and their connections/perspectives/themes 
• A change of purpose for the space/reinterpretation of design 
• Connecting buildings; abstract art- artifacts suggest certain activities 
• One place everyone goes to—social place (locale); elements of time and culture 
• Multiple activities; community-building  
• Othered or outside spaces of socialization; using spaces for other purposes 
• Historical changes; clashing cultural ideas about a place with (often unwanted) contemporary changes to the place. 
• How the place could be better accessible through designs solved by technology