Well, I'll start by saying I enjoyed this week's readings. It was very refreshing to read narrative style rather than the usual academic texts. They all helped me to get a clearer picture of how one's life experiences can shape their literacies and their writing and their communication. It still makes me uncomfortable to think of literacies as more than reading and writing, but rather as bodies of knowledge and expertise in different areas. So I got thinking about what I would cover in my own literacy narrative, and hit somewhat of a roadblock.
I don't think I'm alone in this... but I started thinking that music has been a pretty huge influence in my life. I sang in the church choir since I was very little and began formal music lessons in middle school. Band was a huge part of my social life in high school (you can scream "band geek" now if you'd like, but whatever, doesn't phase me :) ) and music in general is just one of the most important things to me in life. I am just having a really difficult time seeing how that translates to literacy. I know that reading music is a different kind of literacy than reading words, but I don't see how being able to read music has influenced my reading and writing. I kind of feel like there is some part of this concept that just isn't clicking.
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