As promised (albeit a little late), I am going to ask you, in your first post on this blog, to think back to listening to your group members' social identity narratives in class on Thursday. Go to your notebook and look back over the jottings you made while people were reading (because those were the instructions, remember?). Think about how, all these days later, your classmates' social identity stories are still impacting you.
In a post that ranges from 300-400 words, please tell us what you took away from hearing others' stories and, especially, from hearing how others defined their social identities.
Some questions you may want to consider before you start writing your post:
- What were the details of peoples' lives that they chose to share with the group?
- What details from your life did you choose to share?
- What did you have in common? What are differences?
- What is a social identity, anyway?
- Why are stories about our lives important to the study of ELA?
- What function do stories (narratives) serve in a classroom?
