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This week we were supposed to get personal narratives from two of the students. I chose Leiyana and Caleb who are both average students. Leiyana is African American and she recently moved to Mount Union from Philadelphia. Ms. Ashenfelder said she would be a good one to interview because she speaks African American English. Leiyana’s bee sting narrative was a classic narrative and her other two were one-event narratives. The bee sting narrative is classic because it gives all the necessary information and tells a coherent story. It is chronological, makes logical sense, has a high point (bee stug her), and a resolution (stung her for no reason). The narrative also contains more than two events. Classic narratives are common among North American

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