Enoch Pratt Information Literacy Initiatives Analysis

leaning toward sending out a request for stuff that might impact the community; stuff that people would truly enjoy reading and knowing

Choose a form of popular media that you are passionate about. The media may be music, a book, or a movie.

My topic is a marvelous example of this year’s theme. Jimmy Carter led us through the Iranian Hostage Crisis, an insurmountable problem. While Carter ultimately failed to return the hostages within his presidency, the situation was dealt with well and could have been considerably worse. It is also a quality example of how leaders can cope with difficult decisions and how they select options. Jimmy Carter is a stout Christian and an activist, I am sure that this influenced the decisions he made. The legacy of

Lastly, was the topic I found most compelling, community colleges. Did you know 55 out of 100 graduating students at a university actually went to a community college? That's an amazing statistic because it gives a second chance for those of us who didn't meet university requirements. Not to mention, some of the faculty told us they graduated from Goldenwest as well. This information made me feel more secure that I was on the right track to my academic success.

[The essential literacy strategy that I am using in the learning segment is identifying problem(s) and solution(s) of a story. This is evident through the Common Core State Standard RL. 2.3, which states “Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.”This standard is evident in my lesson plans when learners are identifying problem(s) and solution(s) in leveled text and their own individual books. They will be filling in a graphic organizer or creating an anchor chart with their findings this literacy is provided in my learning objective, when it states, “Learners will be able to identify a problem or problems by doing a picture walk of their short stories and flagging them with sticky notes.” Another learning objective

Alliterate is when someone can read, but choose not to. Illiteracy is when someone cannot read. People in America are alliterate and some are illiterate. This problem can be caused by a few different things such as laziness, environment, money, and drive. In the article The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep it states that in 1991more than half of the American society used to read and least a half hour a day and by 1999 the number had dropped to 45 percent of the population. It also says the in 1999 Gallup Poll found out that only seven percent of people in America were voracious readers and 59 percent of people in America had not read more than 10 books in the past year. In 2013 things were not looking much better on average 32 million adult

My topic was a very unique one, for it has an important meaning to history. I chose this particular one, first, because it falls under the NHD theme, and second was the amount of empathy I felt with my topic. I had already knew who Thurgood Marshall was, but I didn’t know a lot about him. My curiosity to research more on him, pushed me to do this topic. This subject was important to select, for he was a civil rights activist, Supreme Court Justice, and he changed U.S. laws that discriminated against colored people.

The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” has been regarded by many as one of the most influential slave narratives in American history. This colorful autobiography has and will forever situate Douglass at the forefront of the American abolitionist movement. Many scholars involved in the study of African American history, including James Matlack, a writer for the Atlanta Review of Race and Culture assert that the effectiveness of Douglass’s narrative rests upon his superior technique in sharing his experience and elating them to the general American population (Matlack 15). In this short narrative Douglass wonderfully exploits several themes that soon

Mark Edmondson’s article “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” really inspired me. This article brought out a concept that most people ignore, the fact that schools must teach the required curriculum lessons, rather than teaching what the students want to learn, and what the teachers want to teach. The problem that students are more interesting in earning enough credits to receive their degree, more than they are about learning about a particular subject. How students would rather get a job with a high pay, than doing something they love. To say the less, he brings out the problems in society and how structured it is. Mark Edmondson’s article tells you to step outside the box and be more self-reliant, I couldn’t agree more.

Changing harmful behaviors getting screening that related to these behaviors to minimize or prevent disease progression. This is also a great need in the Hispanic community. Primary and secondary prevention goes hand and hand in the Hispanic community. To accomplish this community health is a great way to reach their community together. Education on obesity, smoking, diabetes, liver disease, end stage renal failure, and HIV would be great topics for education.

I chose the topic are college athletes given preferential treatment over non-athletes while in college because it is something very controversial in college athletics. Besides being controversial, I also find the topic very interesting. It is interesting to me to find out why college athletes get special treatment to play a sport when in reality the special treatment is probably a disservice to the athletes. Another reason I enjoy this topic is that I love sports in general and college athletics are some of my favorites to watch.

(3) A challenge that seems to be prevalent in elder abuse is that it flies under the radar. A lack of awareness and preparation appears to be the culprit, so the abuse may be missed by people who are able to help because they did not know what to look for, or how to intervene. Therefore, I thought it was a good idea to give law enforcement agencies a seminar on abuse against older adults and the implementation of the app for officers who are not able to take a class since they are usually the first responders in an abuse case. Also, the idea

My social justice topic is about the homeless veterans wandering in the streets of America. All around America there is numerous homeless veterans who seek for a better way of life. They crave for jobs, food, and shelter. All they want in life is to live the American Dream, a dream full of opportunity and wealth. In 2013, Veteran Affairs had an estimation of 610,042 homeless people recorded in the United States, and over 394,698 of those homeless people were living in shelter homes. This means that 215,344 homeless people were living in the streets of the United States. Due to the huge amount of homeless people in the streets it reflects how people see homeless people. Whenever a person sees a homeless people, automatically, they believe that, that person should and does belong on the streets. Only a few people have the guts and courage to walk up to a homeless person and ask if he/she needs help, or even listens about his/her story. I believe that once you hear about a homeless person’s story then you will understand him/her, and then that person who listened to that homeless person would care more about his/her situation, especially if it’s a veteran.

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations-something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” - Katherine Patterson. Literacy is a right. It is implicit in the right to education. It is recognized as a right, explicitly for both children and adults, in certain international conventions. Literacy is the ability to read and write, and also refers to having enough reading and writing ability to function in society. People who cannot read and write are called illiterate. People are called functionally illiterate if they cannot read or write well enough to do activities that are common in social settings they encounter. Such activities may include employment, schoolwork, voting, or worship. The power of literacy is something that can change the world. How far has literacy come since the beginning and what is its history; what are the causes of a lower literacy rate; what effects can lower literacy rates have; what about higher rates; what are some ways to improve the literacy rates and; what are some of the benefits to a higher literacy rate?