Great Help

Reading the examples that Ms.Williams gave us, made my head more clear on how I will project my literacy narrative. I chose to write about my experience on learning how to read a topographic map and the example that I definitely connected alot with the 3rd example; "Advanced Reading".
Like me, I hated reading topographic maps and had someone else always interpret for me, it was too difficult, I hated the wierd lines and numbers on it and I just did not understand it.
Like this example the writer states that he didnt like to read when he was young. But that his hard work payed off at the end of his High school career. I can relate because my hard work payed off at the end by climing the mountain.

The visual narrative was very interesting and helpful too. Altough all examples were not long , they were precise and gave the reader the exact information it wanted to portray. The pictures were great and what impressed me was how he mentioned the changes of the color in between the pictures. The pictures at the beginning were black and white and gave out a message of "gloominess" and that is what exaclty he wanted to do! Make this time of his life, very dark because he jsut did not like to read. That, I think was a good idea.

A Little about my narrative

My narrative is just more than based on me.It is more on the experince and the exact moment of the day I climbed the first mountain in my life, but most importantly the day I finally knew how to read a topographic map. I want to take the reader into my story and share the same feeling I had on that hot summer morning. I will enhance the reader with good details, so that my reader is placed in my shoes and will have the opportunity to also "climb the mountain" when reading my piece. The story consists of how long it took me to climb the 10,360 Ft mountain in Oregon and how the map showed me the way..DO NOT CONFUSE ME WITH DORA! ;)
It was both physically and mentally challenging. My climax I think is when my body decided to pass out for 14 minutes, and by the time it took for an ambulance or a helicopter to get to me, it would be about a day or so. I was away from my family and friends and TECHNOLOGY!! this was the last step of my 22 day journey and it took me 8 hours to complete it!