Summary: Personal Narrative High School Basketball Team

Throughout my years playing on a competitive high school basketball team, my disposition transformed due to powerful encouragement and helping hands. As years went on I grasped the knowledge of playing basketball, but many hours of focus and practice took place during those five progressive years. My head coach was the strongest guidance for me, by acknowledging his specific ideology about basketball from previous years. He is literacy sponsor that reconstructed my identity by giving me access to authority and fitting my character to a new discourse. In my movie I talk about my position as an in-bounder for the team. An in-bounder is someone that takes the ball out on the baseline, understands everyone’s position on the court, memorizes all …show more content…
This position became a new addition to my discourses. James Paul Gee defines a discourse as “a sort of "identity kit" which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize” (Gee 278). Later I took on a higher position as the captain of the team for my last two years, implementing the dedication and strong work ethic I had replicated in each game from my literacy sponsor. i had the authority to makes changes in practices and guide other players to different inputs on what I thought would be beneficial for the team as a whole. "Authority is an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements as accepted by those in that institution's communities practice, but which must be maintained through

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