The Multigenre Autobiography project has me truly missing the 90's. I was the kid sitting in front of the television early every Saturday morning with a huge bowl of cereal watching cartoons and my favorite t.v. shows. Cartoons and shows like Barney, Gullah Gullah Island, Reading Rainbow, Power Rangers, Rugrats, Fish Bone, Arthur, etc. These are all the shows I grew to love and taught me everything from my alphabet to lesson of what was morally right and wrong. Watching these shows I learned, taught me so much about myself as a child. I always wanted to be a powerful girl, that is why I was always the pink power ranger:-) Reading Rainbow birthed my love for books. Every kid has childhood dreams and at the tender age of 6 all I wanted to do was sing. I knew music from gospel to r&b and music became my therapy. It was my pick me up, it became my get away and it was my reality. Music speaks to me in ways like no other. My favorite artists from the 90's are Monica, Aaliyah, SWV, and Boyz II Men.
This is the first time I have been introduced to a Multigenre Autobiography. I love the creative aspect of the project and honestly I have never contemplated the impact literacture has had on my life. The experience of creating my own autobiography is an enlightening one. For the first time, I am sitting down and thinking of all the texts, movies, music, sitcoms, toys, etc. that have had a profound impact on my life as a whole. I am also learning that there are multiple genres that I have grown to love and that teach me different things in different ways. This is definitely an assignment I would use with my future students. It gets them thinking about what is/was important to them, while also showing them their different modalities.
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