Literacy Memoir Critical Self Assessment

In writing my literacy memoir, I did not really give any little narratives, but rather a few
vague master narratives. I did not put as much time and effort into reliving my past literary
experiences nor did I go into as much detail as I should have with the ones I did share. he
person who responded to my memoir also noted the same thing. If I would have shared more in!
depth experiences and elaborated more on the ones I did present, it would have given me a much
more genuine tone. o be honest, I did not ta"e this assignment as serious as I wanted to and did
not put forth the necessary time and effort to fully complete every aspect of the assignment. If I
"eep this same wor" ethic and approach for all other assignments in this class, I will not succeed
to the level that I am capable of doing.
#rom what we have read of $ain%s wor", I feel that I am a strategic learner. A strategic
learner is one who learns how to ma"e a good grade in the class but does not truly get all that
much out of a class. I feel that this is present in my literacy memoir because I did what was
as"ed of me but did not put in enough time and effort to really get something out of the
assignment. If I had to give myself a grade on the literacy memoir assignment I would have
given myself a C. he reason for this grade is because I did complete the assignment and
everything that was as"ed but did not share any little narratives and &ust sort of did enough to
complete the assignment but did not 'go the extra mile.( If I could redo the original assignment I
would ta"e a much different approach than I did and actually try to get something out of the
assignment. )ather than only sharing master narratives, I would go into detail with some little
narratives about my past. I wanted to ma"e it clear in my literacy memoir that both *nglish and
writing are not my strong suits and I have always struggled with them in the past. Although I did
state this in my literacy memoir, I did not share why or how I struggle with these things.
I am not solely responsible for my academic success+ rather I have had many people
influencing me in my past. $oth my parents and my grandparents have been a big impact on my
academic success. #or as long as I can remember, my parents and grandparents have always
stressed to me how important a college education is. hey have always pushed me to do the best
of my abilities and always told me to never give anything less than my best effort. In my literacy
memoir, I mentioned a success in my senior year of high school when I received the only A I
have ever gotten in *nglish. his is a grade that I am very proud of because it is probably the
hardest I have ever wor"ed to get a good grade in all of my years of school. hroughout high
school, I had always been an average $ student in my *nglish classes, but after being deferred
from ,C State -niversity, I "new that I needed to ma"e an A in A. *nglish to show that I have
what it ta"es to be a successful student. #rom this success, I learned that I am capable of ma"ing
an A in *nglish if I really and truly wanted to ma"e that A. Although I had to wor" much harder
than I ever had before, I proved to both my family and myself that when I put my mind to
something I can achieve it.
In my literacy memoir I only shared master narratives about my past literary experiences.
Most of these master narratives tal"ed about how I am not this best writer and usually struggle
with it. I am much more of a math and numbers guy than I am *nglish and writing. I have always
been very good at math in the past because there is only one answer to most of the math
problems and it made sense to me. In *nglish, I am good at saying what I want to say or what I
thin" needs to be said, but I am not very good at arguing my case and bac"ing it up with a bunch
of details. his is why I am much more of a math guy, because there is always one definite
answer that cannot be disputed. I also thin" that part of the reason I struggle with both *nglish
and writing is because I do not li"e to read many boo"s. If I do not have to read a boo" for a
class, then I would never thin" to read on my own free time.