Voices of Literacy Connects: August/ September 2019
The Movies in Our Minds When we read and think at the same time, we make a movie in our minds. It helps us remember the story. If the movie stops in our brains, we may have forgotten something in the story, or possibly there’s missing information because the story isn’t finished yet. If the […]
Voices of Literacy Connects – June 2019
Students visit Habitat for Humanity complex Students in the picture are from the Literacy Connects Writing Workshop. They are asking questions about the nine houses that are being built by Habitat for Humanity on Yavapai Road next to Literacy Connects. They visited on May 28. They went there to learn about the houses that have […]
Voices of Literacy Connects Jan/Feb 2019
For adult literacy week, Literacy Connects students submitted their writing to practice their new skills and share a part of themselves with the community. Three prizes were awarded to Adan Pichardo, Rihana Ibrahim, and Ana Lopez Rojas Adan Pichardo, Beginning English Language student at Martha Cooper “I like to come to English class because […]
Voices of Literacy Connects, Nov / Dec 2018
Once upon a time, there were three students, Francisca, Rania, Gloria, who went to the Tucson Museum of Art. They met three docents, leader teachers at the museum. Two of them worked at the University of Arizona. They showed us many pictures and explained them to us. We saw pink flamingos made out of pipe […]
Voices of Literacy Connects, May / June 2018
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Field Trip On May 10, the Literacy Connects Writing Workshop took a field trip to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. We took a van and a private vehicle from Literacy Connects through the hills of Gates Pass to the museum. Students gazed at the saguaros, buildings, and lots of […]
Recipes from Our Countries
April 2018 Our Writing Workshop class cookbook started as an assignment. Everyone’s ideas went into the cookbook. We students are from many different places in the world; different countries, different islands, different backgrounds. We wrote recipes from our countries. Some are everyday dishes; some are holiday dishes. Some comfort us when we are sick and […]
Voices of Literacy Connects, March 2018
In January and February of 2018, members of the Writing Workshop conducted a series of interviews with members of the Literacy Connects staff. These are the group-written stories from those interviews. In the Reading and Understanding class, many of these students drew sketches and wrote short texts based on a reading of The Rabbits. They […]
Voices of Literacy Connects, December 2017
Exploring the Fantastic, Interesting, Wonderful, Beautiful, Huge Universe Where We Live Writing Workshop Students have been looking at, and writing about, their world, and the universe around them. Student Omar Cunningham explains: I wonder if there is another place that is nice in the World like Earth. I would like to visit to see how […]
