Sara Flores

10/27/2106
ENG-111-60
Professor Julia Intawiwat
Scavenger Hunt

1. Definition of literacy To be able to understand a certain literacy (not just written word)
efficiently. Different kind of people have different kinds of literacies. Most people that
are illiterate in the term of not being able to read or write, are people who did not get
or have a formal education. I typically hear the term being used to talk about a person that
cant read or write. I have had friends who suffer from dyslexia who describe themselves
as illiterate, even though that is not always the case.
2. Dumbing down exam
Grammar
1) a. Capitalize the first word of a sentence.
b. Capitalize proper nouns-and adjectives derived from proper nouns.
c. Capitalize name of companies
d. Capitalize days of the week and months of the years
e. Capitalize Government matters
Congress (but congressional), the U.S. Constitution (but constitutional), the
Electoral College, Department of Agriculture.
f. Capitalize Historical episodes and eras
the Inquisition, the American Revolutionary War, the Great Depression
g. Capitalize Holidays
h. Capitalize name of Institutions
Oxford College, the Julliard School of Music
I. Capitalize names of Organizations
American Center for Law and Justice, Norwegian of the Environment
2) Commonly listed in English parts of speech are: noun, verb,
adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and
interjection.
Part of the speech that have no modification: Articles,
interjections, conjunctions and prepositions.

3) Verse is a part of a song; stanza is part of a poem and a paragraph is part of a

passage.
4) The principal parts of a verb are the building blocks 1- present tense, 2-past
tense, 3-past participle.
5) Case is a grammatical relationship of nouns and pronouns to other words in a
sentence.
Subjective (or nominate) Ann went to the shop.
She went to the shop
Possessive (or genitive)
This is Annes bag
This is her bag
Objective (or accusative)
I visited Ann
I visited her
6) Punctuation is a set of symbols used in writing to help indicate something about
the structure of sentences, or to assist readers in knowing when to change the
rhythm or the stress of their speaking. Depending on the style of writing and the
language used, punctuation may tend towards one of these purposes more than
other.
1. Use a period (full stop) to end declarative sentences and statement.
2. Use question mark to end questions.
3. Use and exclamation point to end exclamatory sentences.
4. Use a comma to indicate a break or pause within a sentence. To separate items
in a list (noun and adjective). And to separate two or more adjectives
describing a noun.
5. Use a semicolon to separate two related but independent clauses.
6. Use colon to introduce a list.
7. Use a hyphen when adding a prefix to some words.
8. Use a dash when making a brief interruption within a statement.
9. Use apostrophe together with the letter s to indicate possession.
7) Education has definitely changed over the years. There are a lot more rules and
words to literacy. Education has changed and so income has changed, the more
educated you are formally the more possible income you could make. In some
ways literacy, has evolved being more words and definitions to certain things; in
others ways literacy, has devolved (especially in the form of written word). People
communicate in a much more abbreviated terminology. If this were a test given
now, there categories would be very similar. I believe that the requirements for
literature need to be improved. We need to work more in literature and become
less dependent on the tech, which has helps enough, but we are getting slow to
learn. As a result, we already do not retain information because everything we
find it in the computers.

3.

I dont think that anyone could pass this test purely because of the wording. It is clear
that is wording is used like this to make the test taker fail. Just by reading the first
question one can tell that this test was made in order for the taker to fail it. There are
thirty questions and if you get just one wrong it is an automatic failure. The questions are
so wacky thatd it would be a miracle if someone got ONE correct. Since these tests were
given to African-Americans in the 1960s that were trying to vote, you can infer that the
real purpose of the test was to use a loophole to keep African-Americans from voting
since it was technically legal for blacks to vote at this point.

4. Ellen was being more culturally literate in the fact that she knew they did not fit in or
belong in that neighborhood in St. Louis because of how different their cultural up
bringing was. She knew that they stuck out in the streets with the car they were driving
and their skin color. Clark seemed to be oblivious that everyone in the neighborhood was
checking them out and watching their every move. Clark was talking to the guy about
directions with a stereotypical view using knowledge about the ghetto culture from what
he only has seen on TV or movies. He was gullible about the whole situation thinking
that nothing bad would happen and thinking that everyone is nice as long as he was nice
to them.
You would not see a scene like this in a movie these days because it is not politically
correct and is a sensitive subject in our society today. The subject is taken lightly and
exaggerates the cultural differences using humor. The movie caters to a certain culture
(white) and gives a false interpretation of what different cultures differences interactions
would be in that specific circumstance.
2. Take a look at this image: http://classic.dryang.org/flash/75bands.htm what is being
represented here? (It may help to describe out loud what you are seeing in a very literal
manner). What would you need knowledge of in order to read and understand this
picture? What kind of literacy is it testing?
This seem like a set of movies from Hollywood. For example I see king Kong, cowboys,
fairys so Im assuming that its peter pan, queen and prince. For someone to understand
this picture they must have seen a lot of movies. This would deal with the movie literacy
generation because some of these people on the picture I dont even recognize them.
3A. the older generation have a harder time at dealing with technology. It showed the
struggles of the daughter trying to teach the mom how to send an email while they were
in therap. It showed that even professional at their job also have a hard time with new
technology thats always coming out.

3B. Sometime dealing with technology it came make some feel very slow. The video showed
the actors acting like monkey trying to deal with the computer. Sometime technology will
make us feel very behind in time.

4B. the grandma seems like she doesnt want to deal with the newer technology so she just
printed the pictures out and posted it on her wall. Some of the older generation doesnt
want to be bother with the newer technology so she stayed old school.

5.

Yes, there are other types of literacies:

Prose literacy, the knowledge and skills needed to perform prose tasks (to search,
comprehend, and use continues texts) Examples include editorials, news stories,
brochures, and instructional materials/
Document literacy, the knowledge and skills needed to perform document tasks (to
search, comprehend, and use non continuous texts in various formats) examples include
job application, payroll forms, transportation schedules, maps, tables, and drugs or food
labels.
Quantitative literacy, the knowledge and skills required to perform quantities tasks. (To
identify and perform computations, either alone or sequentially, using numbers embedded
in printed materials). Examples include balancing a checkbook, figuring out a tip and
completing an order form or determining the amount.