Record J2 · 1919 / 1928
J2: Imitative Personal Narrative
Actual writing year is not stated; published in 1928. Seventh/eighth-grade textbook context; exact grade and age unknown; below a modern high-school boundary.
Original student excerpt
I tried to explain, but he would not listen. Finally I said, “Don’t spank me! I’ll show you how I did it.” My bed was right beside the window. I stood on my bed and opened the top of the window.
Four consecutive sentences from the typeset story; original spelling and punctuation preserved.
Prompt and conditions
Description Only prompt. A classroom story modeled on ingenious work-avoidance in Tom Sawyer; exact original wording is not printed.
- Source conditions
- Source Free; Tom Sawyer-inspired classroom context; exact access unknown.
- Time
- Exact duration unknown. unknown
- Production / archive
- unknown; typeset reproduction.
- Drafting
- draft/final status and editing unknown.
- Population and selection
- Seventh/eighth-grade pupils represented in a 1928 textbook; exact writer grade, age, school, and geography unknown. Textbook-selected group explicitly described as just average; no population frame.
Scorer and feedback role
Editor Or Unknown Marker. Not an authenticated classroom-teacher feedback pair.
- Original source classification
- No original score survives — about Fair plus or Good. Approximate group label reported by textbook authors; individual score, grader identity, and rubric unknown.
- Form
- Aggregate Rating; not response-specific.
- Revision after feedback
- None survives.
“These which follow are just average— graded about Fair plus or Good.”
Read the evidence coding
Conceptual claimDemonstrating the method may overcome an adult’s refusal to hear an explanation.
Ideas and relationships5 coded units. Refused explanation, punishment threat, demonstration proposal, and bed/window steps form practical proof.
AbstractionConcrete
Causal reasoningSimple
Qualification / counterargumentContrast
Evidence usePersonal Detail
OrganizationConflict Proposal Demonstration
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionFunctional
Articulation limitThe excerpt stops before showing whether the proof succeeds.
These are descriptive codes, not scores. No composite or rank is calculated. Included because the four-piece group is explicitly labeled Fair+/Good and just average; textbook selection and lower grade make it supplemental only.