We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Just Females
Just Girls brought back old middle school memories and the literacy practices that my friends and I used to engage in. Before cell phones became popular, my friends and I would write each other notes, pass notes to each other or keep a journal that we would pass back and forth. This was our form of “texting”. Children nowadays don’t know the fear of getting caught passing a note and the teacher reading it. Most times the note contained inappropriate things and the consequences varied among teachers. I remember one time I was caught by my teacher and received a student contract and was sent to the vice principals office. We discussed the issue of the note and I received consequences, which was detention and my parents having to sign my contract. Boy, did I get in trouble with my parents.
Literacy studies isn’t just reading and writing for school. Literacy as a whole is something that we practice in our day-to-day lives. Although texting and being on social media is frowned upon by older generations, this is a form of literacy and children are able to express their feelings. I like to think of this as a digital diary. Now, I think it’s uncommon for children to have diaries. Their social media is often times used as a “diary” and they may restrict how much information they express in their post. I find it so intriguing how I was able to experience the transformation between hand written notes to texting.
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One Reply to “Just Females”
I didn’t get to read this book, but like you I remember in middle school passing love letters around to girls and that was the norm when I was growing up. I really wanted to read this book it seemed really interesting. I like your example of that social media is like the new diary. I haven’t thought about social media like that, but it makes a lot of sense because in the digital age our everyday lives are posted to some form of social media and takes over the function of a diary.