Another example of this can be seen in Hannah’s narrative, Expect The Unexpected. Hannah had written about the time she wrote about her brother’s death for her college essay writing assignment one year. She explains how “this simple essay was so meaningful to me. I was incredibly proud and had nothing but the utmost confidence in my work” (???). Hannah was so confident and proud of herself and expected her teacher would feel the same way towards her paper, but…
In my essay, my peers think I am adding and affirming to the ideas of Alexander and Brandt. I have evidence that supports the idea of sponsorship and how there are two different types by pulling examples from literacy narratives. I also have evidence supporting Alexanders idea of identity shifts. My narratives reveal that teachers are very direct sponsors to students and that their identities shift towards the end sometimes. One of the strongest parts of my paper that my…
these show me connecting my idea of how teachers affect students The way teachers represent themselves and their attitudes have a greater effect than they realize on their students. Teachers are supposed to be the role model for students and set the tone for their learning and understanding of difficult material. Different examples of this can be found in literacy narratives written by older students like the one Shamus Gorman wrote, The 180. Shamus writes, “There are teachers who will…
I am interested in looking at the effect that teachers have on students. Also, how is corresponds with sponsorship, whether it be withholding or facilitating it. Then I would look at how many of the narratives had a withholding teacher sponsor but then looked back and realized they were helping. Alexandra White Ronnie Mwai Paige Hibbard Ashley McCarthy shamus Gorman Hannah D abbey small
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…
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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…
