In gee a particularly potent example is when he talks about what a discourse actually is and how it actually works. A discourse is a sort of identity kit in which people claim there identity with the what where how. In William’s piece he talks about how people claim certain identities when writing a narrative so both of these things I can make connections with. Even tho gee says you…
Journal #10
Gee, Alexander, and Williams all answer the so what question to us rarely easily. Even if we don’t want to be intellectually devoted to the papers they are relevant in our english class so in turn they are important to us. The so what question is answered when they talk about literacy narratives. They are a large chunk of what english 122-123 is about and the different variations we have…
Journal #9
In the pages we read Alexander talks about her experiments in the english field and the different polls that were taken during literacy narrative writing. Alexander talks about how some students use mastery narratives when they write about a child prodigy which is something that comes from a strong belief as a child she uses kids who rebel against other classes and strictly read. These are the kids who grow…
Journal #7
Kara Poe Alexander defines Master Narrative as “an overarching story people tell themselves about their experiences in relation to the culture, literature, or history of a society” if i had to paraphrase what alexander was saying I would say it is problematic because multiple people write stories like our literacy narratives that I basically had myself convinced that I was actually such a hero in my story but really I was…
journal #6
How different is this new narrative than your project from last term? The new literacy narrative is completely from the mentor figure in my old stories perspective. I told the story as if i was the teacher who is witnessing what happened and tried to be as blunt and real as possible. Revisit it in order to think in reflective terms. I revisited my old narrative and it seemed like…
Journal #5
In the two different articles heroes rebels and victims: student identities in Literacy narrative, literacy, discourse and linguistics: introduction. They are talking about identities. Bronwyn T. Williams the author of heroes talks about how students identify themselves differently in papers to make them look like a victim or a hero. When in reality they are the rebel who wouldn’t do much work when asked. This relates to Gee simply with…
Journal #4
Gee’s important topics include discourse secondary discourse gatekeepers. 3 thearoms These are broad topics but these are the big topics of gee a discourse is your identity and this has to do with your entire life. Also the gatekeepers in life who will not let you into the discourse.
Journal #3
1)The article basically talks about the perspectives students have of themselves. The way they tell the story whether they start out as a hero or a victim or a rebel and how they finish the story. Another part of the article that I thought was interesting is that professors assign the narratives to students so they can get a better understanding of how the student writes and what is there…
Journal #2 part A and B
Journal #2 Part A: The ultimate question in this radio segment was all about could someone not have a selfish instinct. They dissected a book talking first about this guys life and how brilliant of a scientist he was and how he became obsessed with finding out just that. Can humans resist being selfish. Survival of the fittest is basically hardwired into every humans mind. This basically means that you…