RES 5535: Race, Class, and Gender in Literacy Research (summer 2009)

Hello,
Better late than never. I have entered this class as a late add on and am trying to get caught up with the course overload I'm taking this summer.Here is some information about myself . I am a mother of two daughters. One is in Greenland in the USAF or better yet she is on top of the world. My other daughter is married with two boys, Trey and Clyde. They call me Nanny but I don't get paid. I am a teacher at Dudley Shoals Elementary in kindergarten where I have taught the past eight years. I am at the end of the MA reading leaving only the seminar and product left to complete after this summer session. I am currenly separated from my second husband and I have had my youngest daughter and two grandsons living with me since her husband is stationed in Korea at this time. She had been living there for the past two years where both Clyde and Trey had a career in modeling. Those who know me also know that these grandchidren are my world. I'm happy they are back in the Unitied States due to the missle crisis from North Korea. She was advised by the US Army to relocate back to the states because of red zone areas due to North Korea and their missle happy leader. In any case I don't have much else happening in my life at this time.I have always been interested in literacy due to my parents lacking a high school education. My parents are active readers with newspapers and Our State magazines. I grew up with my mother reading me fairy tells and telling me stories about The Three Little Pigs and such. I love to read romance novels and Barnes and Noble is a weekly shopping thing for me due to free readings of books and I love Starbucks coffee.I love children's literature and I have a library consisiting of over 1000 books in my storage building. I journal write daily after reflecting form the days events. I love to write and it keeps me on schedule and it's always nice to be able to look back upon incidences that have happened in the past. I just went to my thirty year high school reunion so now everyone can figure that I am the oldest one in this cohort. In any case, I'm very energetic and some people call me crazy because I am forever starting new projects that most people run away from. I look forward to blogging with everyone this semester and this class sounds really exciting. Thank you Dr. Jackson for allowing me to enter at this late date.
Robin Hand