While reading “Lives on the Boundary” by Rose, he mentioned his story of getting so interested in chemistry so much so that he got the chemistry set and began to learn. This sparked my interest as well as my question of “How has curiosity affected your literacy?” Before we address this question, we have to begin at not everyone can afford to be curious. There are cultures and situations, in particular, financial, in which one’s ability to be curious may be limited. For example, in my family and the environment I was raised in, I was blessed to be in a financially stable situation, but my culture did not allow for curiosity in terms of social events. I was not allowed to go to hang out with friends over night, I wasn’t allowed to go to “parties”, I was also not allowed to consider things that fostered creativity. I was pushed to do more academic pursuits. Considering all of this, “How has curiosity affected your literacy?” I believe being pushed toward the academic side of learning has benefited me in many ways. I took a lot of online classes growing up in math and science and that really fostered that curiosity. I began to enjoy those academic pursuits. In doing so, I think it left me a little socially delinquent. Learning those social cues and “social literacy”, if you will, was a hard transitional period in the first semester of college. What about you? How has your upbringing and moreso your curiosity affected your literacy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While reading “Lives on the Boundary” by Rose, he mentioned his story of getting so interested in chemistry so much so that he got the chemistry set and began to learn. This sparked my interest as well as my question of “How has curiosity affected your literacy?” Before we address this question, we have to … Continue reading “Question: How has curiosity affected your literacy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}