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Make sure to carefully read and follow the instructions while completing the tasks. Once you have finished this activity, proceed to section 2.6 Evaluation: Antiracism and Inclusivity. This section provides rubric tools for self-evaluation and evaluating the work of your classmates. After completing the evaluation, move on to section 2.7 Spotlight on … Variations of English, where you will encounter new challenges to showcase your content. Finally, go to section 2.8 Portfolio: Decolonizing Self to find useful tools, recommendations, and reflections for creating your portfolio. Afterward, move on to the next Module. 

Now, let's get started! Using the following template, share your tasks, taking into account the order of the different sections detailed chronologically.

Task 1: 

Summary of Assignment: Cultural Artifact Part A

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Summary of Assignment: Cultural Artifact Part B

Another Lens 1: Choose a space that is important to a cultural community to which you belong. While visiting this space, conduct an hour-long observation. Respond in writing to these items: Describe the space in detail. What do you see permanently affixed in the space? What activity is going on? How is the space currently used? What is the atmosphere? How do you feel while conducting your observation? Then, do some brief research on the space (using the Internet, the library, or campus archives), and answer these questions: What is the history of the space? When was it established, and under what circumstances? How has this space been used in the past? What is your response or reaction to this history? Then, write a passage in which you highlight a unique feature of the space and your cultural relationship to it.

ANSWER PART B 

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Summary of Assignment: Cultural Artifact Part C

IMPORTANT 

Make sure to carefully read and follow the instructions while completing the tasks. Once you have finished activities 3.5 and 3.6, proceed to section 3.7 Evaluation: Self-Evaluating. This section provides rubric tools for self-evaluation and evaluating the work of your classmates. After completing the evaluation, move on to section 3.8 Spotlight on … The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), where you will encounter new challenges to showcase your content. Finally, go to section 3.9 Portfolio: A Literacy Artifact to find useful tools, recommendations, and reflections for creating your portfolio. Afterward, move on to the next Module. 

Now, let's get started! Using the following template, share your tasks, taking into account the order of the different sections detailed chronologically.

Drafting: Writing from Personal Experience and Observation

Now that you have planned your literacy narrative, you are ready to begin drafting. If you have been thoughtful in preparing to write, drafting usually proceeds quickly and smoothly. Use your notes to guide you in composing the first draft. As you write about specific events and scenes, create a rich picture for your readers by using concrete, sensory details, and specific, rather than general, noun, as shown in Table 3.2. You can use Frederick Douglass’s Text as a Drafting Model. To create a draft that draws on multiple elements of storytelling, as this selection from Douglass does, you may need to generate ideas for additional scenes, or you may need to revisit a particular place so that you can provide concrete and sensory details for your readers.

Editing for More Effective Sentences

This paragraph from a student's first draft of a narrative contains sentences that need editing. Revise the sentences to eliminate “There are . . .,” “It is . . . ,” unclear you and this, and wordiness. For better flow, combine sentences that are repetitive or choppy.

It is now hours later. I think it is almost midnight, in fact. I have finally managed to get my paper started and studied for my exam. My eyes are very tired. I get up and leave my comfortable chair. Next, I walk out of the library. You have to walk through a glass door. I retrace the path that goes back to my apartment, where I came from earlier.

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Since it is midnight, it is dark, and I nervously listen to footsteps. They are coming up behind me. Then, they get too close for comfort. This is really making me very, very nervous. I am really very scared, but I step over to the sidewalk’s edge. I am trying to be calm, and I let a man walk briskly past. Phew!