DRAFT #1

The connections between literacy narratives and how this can be used as an insight to that students prior success, failures and other experiences with literacy in general. This also provides an explanation on their decisions in reading and writing as well. In “ Successes, Victims and Prodigies: “Master” and “little” cultural narratives in the literacy narrative genre.” By Kara Poe Alexander she argues that teachers and professors can learn from their students literacy narratives from an cultural aspect and their pass experiences with literacy. She also brings up the theory of master narratives and little narratives. She explains that master narratives are the success stories of the child prodigy. With “little narratives” she believes they are many inside a master narrative and they give small details that help bring the story together essentially. Alexander touches on the point that she doesn’t prefer master narratives to be closed ended due to the otherside can influence the whole story. This information is critical to my belief of the connections between Alexander’s ideas and the ones of my own. I say this because in order to gain a better understanding of a student is the ability to connect to them on a one on one basis.With assigning literacy narratives they are able to gain this further understanding this also allows them to have the student produce better quality work because they could start to understand where you the teacher is coming from. Not only will this be able to let teachers connect to their students it can reflect on that students decisions they make in the classroom. From sitting in the front or back, not talking a lot in class and work production and quality. The other reading I believe has connections to my theory and the reading from Alexander is “Literacy, Discourse and Linguistics:Introduction” By James Paul Gee. In this reading Gee informs you about what a Discourse is what types of Discourses there is and how one acquires a Discourse. He also touches upon secondary discourses like jobs, relationships. I believe there is strong connections between Gee and Alexander. One connection I see is between Gee’s secondary discourse idea and Alexander’s little narrative belief. In Gee’s secondary discourse he informs about how this can be how you get a job and or a career. To get a career you first need to find a master of that subject. After this you need to have some type of apprenticeship with that master to understand the little things needed to be done to be part of that discourse. This can be the little things from clothing, hand gestures and how you present yourself to that discourse.