The official narrative, students say, amounts to a kind of denial of history.
After hours of non-narrative student cinema, it was a welcome relief.
Narrative nonfiction also provides a bridge between the personal narratives students typically write in elementary school and the essays on external subjects that are more appropriate assignments in high school and beyond.
It said the move continues "to perpetuate a narrative that students cause damage to the community by virtue of simply being students.
Works by Shirley Jackson, master of "perfectly skewed narratives" and student of witchcraft, have been published in a new Library of America collection.
"I think this narrative that students across the country are weak and not able to deal with real debate is deeply insulting and just as unsophisticated as they say students are".
It next proffers two narratives of student experiences as a springboard for exploring the impact of the examination system on students, teachers, parents, coaching enterprises and wider society, and draws on other participants' accounts to illustrate issues.
The statements were given in first person narrative and students responded by ticking on a four-point scale labelled 'Never Me', 'Rarely Me', 'Sometimes Me' and 'Very Much Me'.
Regardless of the academic distinction between theory of evolution and concept of evolution (above), or the arguable content of this narrative, the students (and professors) think of evolution as described in the statement (see Observation 2, below, for more on this topic).
"It's a school that has seriously focused on changing the narrative for students," the superintendent said.
As you'll see -- if you care to watch it -- the segment was dominated by two other teachers who support the narrative that students are bad.
