This is Literacy?

What location should I choose? Somewhere far from where I am now? Or somewhere I can walk to in 2 minutes? I choose the closest one. So I chose the courtyard in the center of Sanford & Moore Hall. (I’m in Sanford(: ) Everyday there is something different happening here. People are constantly outside, talking, passing out flyers, eating, everything.

Some of artisticness for you're own personal enjoyment.

 

La di da da di da da. Music. I find it interesting to see what type of music people like… usually rap around here. While I was working on this project, there happened to be some guys rapping along to one of their songs. Singing, rapping, rhyming, whatever you want to call it, allows people to express their literacy in a different way other than simply speaking or writing. It’s a creative way to talk about feelings and emotions. Music can be an outlet for some people. Like in the video Lacy played for us about Youth Roots. Those kids used their music as their own form of self-expression.

Red flags. 1, 2, 3, 4 red flags. But what are they for? I’ve noticed them before around campus. Ahhhh, they bring awareness for abuse against women. That makes sense. Things like these flags are literacy in the form of awareness. If you read these flags once, the next time you see them you already know what they represent, which then causes you to notice them more and more around campus. Then I told my parents and friends that it’s Violence Against Women Month. This type of literacy is like a chain reaction. It’s a cool way of learning something new!

Frat guys. We all know one. And know they are everywhere. Always promoting something. This time they are promoting their Second Annual Monster Mash party. It costs money to go to the party so I’m not sure if they’re trying to donate money to something or just being a little selfish but in any case their flyers are a form of literacy. Maybe it’s not educational literacy, but hey, literacy’s literacy right?

This actually makes me wonder, what really defines literacy if anything can be considered literacy?