Read Julie Wan's "Chinks in My Armor" in Easy Writer pages xx- xxix or hereLinks to an external site. if you don't have access to the textbook and watch Chimamanda Adichie's Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" (Links to an external site.)
Answer the following questions:
What is appealing about the content and form of these narratives?
What features do they have that make them a successful narrative?
What claims do they make about how their past experiences impact the present?
How do they relate their past to threshold concepts?
What from their work would you like to emulate in your own literacy narrative assignment?