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Reflective Essay: Branch's Literacy

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Branch’s literacy was built from the influences his parents had and different devices that developed for him as a young child. My institute of knowledge had a similar foundation to Branch’s. Each of my sponsors are from programs, schools, and people that had a different goal. Sometimes, I would share these goals with the programs. Each of my developments are utilized daily in different aspects. Each expansion on these developments have a different story on how they were formed and what I drew from them. My different literacies consist of oral communication, visual arts, programming and gaming, and mathematics.
Mathematical literacy is a basic foundation for almost all of the institutions I have acquired over the years. Through mathematics …show more content…

I started art at a very young age like others do. I had illustrations on walls of stick figures and sometimes on paper. As time passed I wanted professional techniques that could enhance my ability. It started out small with my mother, who had mastered the art of visualization. She had an abstract style of art that I inherited from studying her helping us coloring books and her more serious art piece. As I moved on to high school, my teacher Mr. Hutchins understood more of my style than any other person in the class. Mr. Hutchins understood my abstract drawings and helped me to develop techniques to make me at stick out more. I remember when working on an abstract painting of the fall time in West Virginia, Mr. Hutchins noticed I had a pattern in my piece and helped me to tear apart the pattern. He added more random strokes to take apart the patterns and then I tried to do the same. He helped to make my work pop out more with his ideas. Others in my class believed that my art had to have a purpose. The true purpose for me was to see the way others saw my paintings.
Together all of these literacies characterized my ability to produce results in my future occupation. Branch was able to lead a successful life as a software developer by his technological bases he created. Applying these abilities to not only on a daily basis, but on a future basis. I aspire to use my skills in mathematics,

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