When writing literacy narratives, students either out themselves out there to feel vulnerable or they don’t. In most hero literacy narratives, they show the hardships behind an experience they’ve been through so they are the most moving and personal types of literacy narratives. It is not always easy to write about a time in your where either you felt vulnerable or victimized. It is not easy to feel vulnerable, nobody likes that but when you can learn and grow from…
Paragraph 1 Original: I found from reading and studying Kara Alexanders’ scholarly article about literacy narratives that she examined the “master” and “little” cultural narratives students perform in literacy narratives. She studied which types of literacy narratives were most popular among students. She found that the top 3 cultural narratives were about success, victim, and hero. Alexander found that “these findings make obvious that students see their literacy path as a journey to success.”(616). Almost all the kinds of literacy…
1. Our projects should be “engaging the conversation” about literacy acquisition, so they should be speaking to Alexander/Brandt/Williams in at least one of these three ways: affirm, add, challenge. And you probably want to be doing at least two of these things. What do your peers think you might do here, based on the evidence you’ve provided in the draft? Is there other evidence in the narratives that you’ve left out of the draft so far? Be specific about what your…
Hero literacy narratives emphasize the individual rather than literacy acquisition. Often, literacy success is thought of just as understanding the material and how well literacy performance is when really there is a deeper meaning being literacy acquisition. Superiors have a large impact on younger peoples lives and these interactions have a lasting impact on their lives forever, whether it be a good or bad interaction. Figures have a large impact on students lives, especially when they are younger. They shape…
I think I want to focus on Hero narratives because I love hearing about success, liberation, and progression stories. I feel that everyone has an option of becoming something great and in order to get to that point there is often lessons learned in order to get to that point. I find it interesting how people get to a certain point in their lives whether it be good or bad because those moments shape who is a person is for…
