INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL LITERACY CLASS

On Wednesday, 13 JANUARY 2010 is the first day in the critical literacy class. The lecturer for this subject is Miss Nor Shazwani Hanafi and she also my beloved mentee @ my second mother. During the first session, Miss Wani had told us the introduction of critical literacy. We had discussed about the outline. What is critical literacy? Critical Literacy means describes a particular approach to reading and writing. In this subject we need to be more creative in thinking, and we also need the skills to identify how texts work, how they convey messages, the assumptions they make, the stances they take and other information which can assist us to see any piece of writing as socially constructed, something with which we can argue and if necessary challenge or even refute. I found this subject was quite interesting but need a big effort i think. But, this class was very interesting because Miss Wani is a quite happy go lucky person. She knows how to make our class in a cheer mood.

Then, after that we moved to the ice breaking session. In this session, we need to pick one of our classmates and tell to the class about the person. Miss Wani also had drew 4 symbols that we need to choose to describe the person that we pick. The 4 symbols are TRIANGLE, SQUARE, ROUND and WAVE.This activity was also an interesting activity. I feel enjoyed. In this activity, i had chose Nurul Nadiah binti Rosli. Her nickname is Yaya. I described Yaya is a round person. This is because, she is quite shy when she meet someone that she doesn't know but she is very talkative when she in her group.

At the last session, Miss Wani had told us what is exactly the meaning of the 4 symbols.
First is TRIANGLE. It is the symbol for the CHINESE. They are really an ambitious person. But they also selfish and even can break any rules if they want to succeed. Second is SQUARE which is related to the INDIAN people. They are really fare and square people. They also the devoted people especially towards their religion. They will follow the rules 'by hook or by crook'. The third one is ROUND. It is the symbolism of MALAY people. Malay people is cannot out from the box. They fell really safe in the safe zone. And the last one is WAVE which is not related to any people but the meaning is no stand at all. That's what i learn in the first class..

Thank you Miss Wani for this information. I really enjoyed it.