Multiple Literacies

Literacy is a part of our everyday lives and is in everything we do. I guess the most obvious literacy is my classes here at USM, and the interactions with my instructors and classmates. I have learned a great deal from them all. For example, I have learned the kind of teacher I want to be and the kind of teacher I don’t want to be by observing my instructors and their ability or inability as teachers.
Another example of literacy is television, what I watch on TV can be a general conversation piece for me to talk about and express my opinions with my family and friends. Music is another part of my literacy as it represents an abundance of feelings and expressionisms, and I have songs that I like and songs that I don’t like as well as the musicians who sing them. As my opinion is a part of me therefore, it is a part of my literacy.
Is there literacy in cooking or the preparation of meals? Yes, I believe so. I prepare and cook meals on a daily basis, and I enjoy baking cookies and other deserts at times. Recipes and directions are definitely a part of literacy and a big part of my life. However, literacy doesn’t stop with these few examples. As previously mentioned, literacy is a part of our everyday lives and is in everything we do. In a nutshell, it’s who we are.