Record J3 · 1919 / 1928
J3: 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
Last year when my sister was only five years old, I would sometimes ask her to wipe the dishes for me. At first she didn’t want to, but afterward I asked her to see how many dishes she could have wiped before I finished washing the pans. Then she would start to wipe the dishes, sometimes finishing before I did.
Three 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 claimTurning dishwashing into a race motivates a reluctant younger child.
Ideas and relationships5 coded units. Request, reluctance, competitive reframing, simultaneous tasks, and occasional winning form a motivational sequence.
AbstractionEmerging
Causal reasoningMultistep
Qualification / counterargumentContrast
Evidence usePersonal Detail
OrganizationProblem Intervention Change
Sentence controlControlled
Lexical precisionFunctional
Articulation limitNo alternative explanation or duration beyond the anecdote is offered.
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.