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Reading Alexander 2

Reading Alexander 2

Despite what you may think, a Success story does not emphasize the success of the individual or improving their reading and writing skills. Really, it emphasizes the success of literacy; viewing it in a useful way with economic, cultural, social, and political success. Success stories are used as a way to understand the author’s own understanding of their literacy experiences. They generalize literacy and how it can lead to future success. These types of narratives occurred in 30% of the…

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Reading Alexander

Reading Alexander

 Kara Poe Alexander writes about a popular literacy narrative which she calls the “literacy success story”. This type of narrative typically shows the author facing literacy and, in turn, quite obviously, succeeding. Success seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Many students equate literacy with success, so it seems like the right topic to write about when assigned to write a literacy narrative. Within “Successes, Victims, and Prodigies: ‘Master’ and ‘Little’ Cultural Narratives in the Literacy…

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How I Plan to Analyze Literacy Narratives

How I Plan to Analyze Literacy Narratives

In order for me to analyze the literacy narratives in order for me to turn them into data, I would have to see what kind of narrative each one is. What is the message behind the narrative? I would have to read each literacy narrative and look for the details inside of it to decide their values. What is the narrative about? Is it a little or master narrative? I will have to dive deeper into the topic to decide…

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Reading Rising Cairn

Reading Rising Cairn

Within Rising Cairn, I had read multiple literacy narratives. These included “Expect the Unexpected” by Hannah D, “Blank Screen” by Meghan Mazzochi, “Live or Die” by Paige Hibbard, “‘Is it an Option to Drop Out of Middle School?’” by Hannah Merrill, “Learning the Italian Language” by Joe Kucky, “A Mother Knows Best” by Sarah Robinson, “My Mom Prepared Me for the World” by Alexis Ouellette, and “The Year I Started to Hate Writing” by Hannah Clark. A literacy narrative is a…

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Alexander, Brandt, and Literacy Narratives

Alexander, Brandt, and Literacy Narratives

Throughout Alexander’s Success, Victims, and Prodigies, he writes about the many different cultural narratives and why certain ones are used the most. Though “success” was the most used one, I feel as though my literacy narrative falls under “hero”. At first I did not even look at the hero narrative, my narrative was not anything heroic, why would it fall under that category? At first glance of the topics, I thought that my narrative would be under “success”. But after finishing…

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Working in Medium

Working in Medium

A Not So Dim Tunnel Moving into college is one of those experiences that happens in a blink of an eye, but sticks with you for years. Something else that may stick with someone for years is failing a class in one of their best subjects. This happened to me my sophomore year of high school. My English class was the first class I had ever failed; I had never even come close to a failing grade either. Though that was…

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