Midterm

For our midterm assignment in English 1101 we were assigned to go to Atkins Library and find a mentor text that would assist in writing our literacy narrative.  Once we found the mentor text of our choice we were asked to do a "write beside the text" in our day books.

My group went to the library on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m..  It was an extremely muggy and yucky Tuesday morning.  This weather made me want to crawl right back in my bed but I knew I couldn't do so.  My group was supposed to meet at the front entrance of Atkins Library.  When all of my group members were there, we headed into the large and extremely overwhelming library.  We stood at the front desk at the computer but didn't exactly know what to look for.  We were searching and searching but didn't know where we wanted to go with this project.  Chris then thought of the idea of using The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.  I wrote down the call number and we were on our way.

We got to the 2nd floor and found to CIMC section and began looking.  We were totally confused to why we were looking through text books and other kinds of teaching aids.  We couldn't even find the text book that we were looking for.  The group came to a unanimous decision and decided to go back down the to front desk and find another Tom Sawyer location.  In doing so, we found the real Tom Sawyer book in the juvenile section on the 5th floor and we headed up there.

The 5th floor is much, much smaller than the 2nd floor so it took us no time to fine the isle that our book was on.  I started down the isle and was looking for the appropriate call numbers.  My group members were following behind me to make sure I didn't miss anything.  On the right side, on the middleish shelf, I found the mentor text we were on the mission to find, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  I pulled the book off of the shelf and we flipped through the pages and began our five minute "write beside the text."

As I was writing in my daybook I realized that this is probably the best book that we could have chosen to aid me in writing my literacy narrative.  My group was really happy that we decided on this book because there were so many different elements that we could all use.  I actually really enjoyed this assignment because it gave me the opportunity to really think about my literacy narrative and how I could incorporate many different elements.  My group worked really well together in this process.  We knew what book we wanted and we were on the mission to find it, and we did so.