Kayla
- Name the concept: Kayla is a victim (according to Alexander)
- Quote a relevant passage “The two most common little narratives in student essays were Victim and Hero” (Alexander 614).
- Quote a relevant passage “Then I got to high school and an every bit of confidence I had about writing was stripped. Freshman year of high school my English teacher, Mr. Stritch, was the person who ruined writing for me.
- Explain Kayla is very clearly a victim because she very clearly casts the blame for her hatred of writing on Mr. Stritch. He ruined her love for writing and felt he was a bad teacher overall.
Sam
- Name the concept Sponsors
- Quote a relevant passage “sponsors seemed fitting for term for the figures that turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors, military officers…” (Brant 557).
- Quote a relevant passage “There was something about her patience and encouragement that made me feel that with her help, I could get the hang of this”
- Explain Sam looked up to her teacher Miss Foster because she made her feel encouraged to work. Miss. Foster was a good sponsor for Sam because she guided her love for reading and writing. She also made her feel confident and she showed this new confidence in her work.
Hannah
- Name the concept Sponsor
- Quote a relevant passage: “sponsors seemed fitting for term for the figures that turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning: older relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors, military officers…” (Brant 557).
- Quote a relevant passage “This was nerve racking at first… I wanted to go above and beyond for this paper. This paper meant the world to me” (Hannah D 2)
- Explain Hannah is talking about her brother in the quote above. In a sense his memory was her sponsor. Before writing this essay she did not love writing but the essay and the meaning of it made her write better than she ever had. She took lessons away from the experience too because she learned she needed to be proud of her writing.
Blake
- Name the concept Memories sticking with you
- Quote a relevant passage “One young women could trace her love of reading back to childhood memories of sitting and reading with her father… Another once drew pictures on a story she had written only to see it thrown in the trash can” (Williams 342).
- Quote a relevant passage “She underlined the sentence where the problem was and didn’t tell me what it [missing in the story] was. So I stomped off back to the classroom; annoyed because I was wasting my entire recess because she wouldn’t tell me what was wrong” (Beverage 2).
- Explain Memories, positive or negative, and no matter how small (one missing period in a story) stick with people for a very very long time. Beverage was missing a period in his story and missed recess and he can still remember stomping off and being angry watching all his friends play outside while he didn’t He even remembers his teacher smiling before telling him his essay was missing something. Similar to in Williams writing where a women remembered reading with her dad and a girl who remembered her picture being thrown away. The memories may seem irrelevant at the time but it can make a big impact on ones love for reading and writing. I still remember my teacher Mr. Miloro throwing all my papers on the floor because he did not like my work. I was so angry picking them up off the floor.
