Read: Alexander, 622-29 and They Say, I Say, Chap 2 (pp. 30-42). Journal # 9: Write a journal that summarizes Alexander’s project in a way she would recognize.
In the study conducted by Alexander she reviewed narratives and read them with cultural lenses instead of academic ones. This allows her to understand the narratives with a more personal connection instead of grading them for the criteria. In her study she read and reviewed 60 students papers after each paper she put each one into a category that fit into the cultural difference. The categories she put the narratives into where “Success, Hero, Outsider, Child Prodigy, Victim, Rebel and Other.”. After her study she was able to find that around ⅓ of the narratives she reviewed were a “success narrative” and that just about every student had some sort of success part in each of there narratives.
