Coach Gainey, Chris Blake, Jill Sullivan, Richard Sullivan, Jake Sullivan, Kerri Dillon, Tyler Hagan Dear

Coach Gainey, Background: Literacies are formed from previous situations and how we react to these past experiences. The way we choose to respond to future situations is directly in correlation with our learned literacies. We use what we learn from previous experiences in order to make a similar future experience. I am writing you to ask a few questions on how my literacies were transformed from before, during, and after, a specific event in my life. This is the grounds that I want to base my literacy ethnography on, an English paper that studies the literacies of an individual through research beyond the common knowledge. As you know, the most significant and life changing event that has happened to occurred in late April of 2011 when I had my stroke. You know as well, the limits and bounds I had to overcome and make in order to get myself back to where I was before this event happened. From these questions, I would like to know your true perspective on how my literacies were challenged and transformed through this event. (If there is any way I can have either a few or all responses, any length or detail you would like to respond with, by Sunday night, December 8th. Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for me.) Before my stroke: What aspect were your efforts concentrated on concerning teaching me literacies in your position? What literacies/practices did I obtained concerning the area of your expertise before my stroke? (April of 2011)? From your perspective, where would you say my learned literacies came from? What areas did I explore my literacies most in? In other words, what aspect(s) were most of my efforts focused? In your opinion, could my literacies be expanded or broadened? If so, How?

During the period of returning after my literacy event (stroke): Could you tell aspects of my previous learned literacies were effected? If so, explain what aspects and how? As a sponsor of my literacy (teacher of your expertise), were there any aspects of literacies that you felt were going to be lost and unattainable to relearn? If so, why?

After returning from my stroke (after the 2 and half month recovery period): Explain any literacies that were lost or obtained after this specific literacy event.

If there were any new literacies obtained from my experience (stroke) that you observed, what would you explain these learned literacies to be? Was there any changes, major, or minor, that reflected in my character, after the recovery from my event?

Thank you for your time, support, and help. Jarrin Sullivan 910.431.2602 jsulli59@uncc.edu