Some Categories in Sample Narratives
Hannah: In this narrative, there is an example of shifting identities and forming one for a teacher. Williams states, “it is also intriguing to consider the identities students construct for teachers in such narratives”(344). She goes on to explain how they can be positive, negative or anything in between. Hannah begins by portraying her teacher as mean because she didn’t think her paper was as great as Hannah thought it was. But then in the next paragraph she says, “Teachers…
annotations literacy narrative
identifying the aspects if he sponsorship identifying aspects of sponsorship using Brandt’s ideas trying to determine the type of narrative identifying the type of narrative Defining the sponsorship determining the sponsorship trying to identify the type identity/sponsorship
cheat sheet
annotations oct 25
understanding questioning/confusionunderstandingdrawing relationshipunderstand understandunderstandingrelationship relationship
oct 25 hw
In Alexanders article, he discusses the different forms of literacy narratives students write about. Two “little” narratives that interest me are the victim and child prodigy types. Alexander describes the victim narrative by saying “students wrote about negative school-based literacy experiences” (617). This can vary between a bad teacher, being forced to write something, getting heavily critiqued or even just a moment where someone lost their passion for writing. This is common to write about because almost everyone has…
learning outcomes
Introduction- In my introduction, I deleted the part about primary and secondary Discourses because it wasn’t relevant to the topic. I introduced Gee, Hass, Nair and Nair and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet as well to make my thesis more clear. Evidence and Explanations: I expanded on my idea of connections and added more evidence to that paragraph. I also added more explanation to all my paragraphs on how Gee relates to the three additional sources. Reorganization- I moved around almost all of my…
subordination/coordination
In this paper, these building tasks will be focused on Scientific Discourse specifically and how each task fits to help identify this Discourse using textual evidence from Christina Hass, Nair and Nair, and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet. This is a compound sentence because the idea of scientific discourse and the building tasks or equally important. From this example, it shows a few different identities, there is the author, the reader, the reader who decides to read it further and…
oct 18 hw
Making connections is also an essential building task that Gee describes in establishing Discourse. It relates one thing to another and as Gee states, “we use language to render certain things connected or relevant (or not) to other things, that is, to build connections or relevance” (35). Put something in here about explaining this quote……………………………….For example, Hass writes about how Eliza grew by her senior year, she states, ““By her senior year, she often viewed texts as multiply connected –…
Oct 18th hw
Where are you already working pretty well with Gee’s concepts? How, specifically, will you apply that more solid engagement to a specific paragraph that is not yet working so effectively with Gee (or Haas, or another text in play)? I am working well with Gee in basically every one of my paragraphs. I have taken what I think the most important building tasks are in a Discourse and relating them to examples in the articles to give examples. My introduction…
