In my research paper, first I plan to use some outside sources to define the "literacy story" as I experienced it in school. I was planning on using Chandler's chapter "New Literacies, Story Forms, and Literacy Narratives" and "Using Critical Metaphor Analysis to Extract Parents' Cultural Models of How their Children Learn to Read Critical Inquiry in Language" to define the "story" that was acceptable in school. I plan to go on to show, through relevant examples in my transcript, how I did not fit into this "story" and the ways I fit myself into the story in unconventional ways. One example I was thinking of focusing on is the soap opera I wrote in elementary school, as a way, (in an unconventional way) I was able to write for school despite a lack of success with academic writing in grade school. I might think about my experiences with my son, and trying to get him to "buy into" that accepted story, and creating that environment for accepatance in my home. It's possible I will also look at my role as a teacher, and my encouragment towards my student to be a part of that story, even if they didn't feel it was "their" story.