Professor Sue Ellen Henry has put all 25 of her students’ narratives on reserve at the library. Please stop by sometime before next class to borrow the narratives. Read through the narratives and choose the one that, in your opinion, best matches the person in the photograph you selected. Please be sure to maintain the confidentiality of these narratives. There is considerable risk for the EDUC students in sharing this information, even in its redacted form, with you. Please honor this trust.
Your response to the following questions should be approximately 300 words in length total, and should be written with the same academic polish as your Artist Report assignments. You will include your written responses in your Research Binder at the end of the semester, and these assignments will have a significant influence on your binder’s grade.
After selecting a narrative to match your photo, please answer the following questions:
- Please describe what the process of selecting the narrative was like for you.
- How did you decide that the narrative you selected was the best fit for the person in the photo? What were you looking for? Please tell about your thought process.
- As you read the narrative, what aspects of the author’s identity stood out to you the most? Please describe these aspects and tell why they seemed especially significant.
- Now that you have read and reflected on the narrative, please think back on your first encounter with the photograph. At that time, you formed a set of ideas based on the photo itself, but now the narrative has given you a more complex understanding of the person. Do you see the photograph differently now? How? Why?
- As you compare your expectations regarding the person in the photo with the narrative that you settled on, how are the two similar? How are they different?