One concept that I believe applies to my Literacy Narrative is Alexander’s concept of success. She says that 30% of all the narratives she looked at were written based on success in the writers’ literacy experiences. This relates to my narrative completely because my whole Literacy Narrative is based on a success story; going into freshman year I hated reading, but after that year I began reading on my own time. This ultimately made me a better reader.
Brandt’s concept of sponsors also connects to my Literacy Narrative because the main focus of my narrative was how Ms. Petersen, my ninth grade English teacher, helped me become a better reader. She introduced me to a new kind of story that I never was able to read in school before. Ms. Petersen allowed my classmates and me to read just about any book we were interested in reading. Brandt also talks about how the sponsors in these narratives lend their resources to help the writer have a successful experience with literacy. After reading The Maze Runner I asked Ms. Petersen for the next two books in the series but she didn’t have them. The thing is, she was so happy that I enjoyed that book so much that she ordered the next two books so that I could read them.
