According to Alexander, there are various kinds of literacy narratives. Success master narrative is the most common narrative written by the students and some of the other narratives follow. “Outsider narrative” is one of the other narratives. In Alexanders passage, she descries outsiders as a student who construct themselves as a stranger in a foreign land, not interested in furthering their literacy skills. They stuck in a place called limbo, wondering where their place is in the world. Teddy Miller’s narrative in the rising cairn shows this trait of outsider narrative. Throughout the years of high school, he maintained as an average student and disliked the writing assignments. He was not very interested in classes, floating around the grades of B or Cs. He did not fit in at school classes and portrayed himself as an outsider towards writing classes. He displayed negative attitude toward school. This example of his behavior shows the characteristics of outsider narrative.
Alexander describes traits of victim, and rebel narrative in her passage. The author shows the moment when he felt victimized by reading/writing in victim narrative. In rebel narrative, the writer seems to ‘rebel’ against certain school settings. In David’s literacy narrative, he took a literacy exam in high school. The question was asking him to interpret certain meaning of the words in a poem. However his answer was judged wrong and he felt victimized by the standardized interpretation of the literature interpretation. He couldn’t accept the fact and tried to challenge the given answer. After debating with the teachers his answer finally was accepted as an alternative answer. This example shows both of victim and rebel narrative. He went against certain decision made by the teachers in school. This shows the characteristic of rebel narrative.
In Brandt’s passage, he explains the idea of sponsorship. Sponsors support and teach those who are getting sponsored by. In Tuzzo’s passage, he describes how certain sponsor changed his general mindset toward in English, and further his school life. He describes in detail how his sponsor affected him. Through his teaching he could establish growth mindset on English class. This proves the statement in Brand’t passage that sponsors affect a lot on students who are in the path of literacy learning.
