Ethnography Mapping

So today for english, my ethnography group went to the student union to observe. Our topic was sound and noises so we sat in the main lobby area (shown in the bottom picture) and wrote down what we heard. I made a list of literally everything I heard; from keys rattling to high heels clicking on the tile floor. I felt kindof creepy listening in on peoples conversations so I tried to steer away from those kinds of sounds. One really funny one was you could hear someone playingan Adele song on the piano and then some girl walked by and started singing along with the music. All in all I think I was successful in mapping where I heard everything.

Revision?

What does revision actually mean? Lacy gave us a handout that talked about revision the other day. It talked about how revision was a second chance, or maybe and third or fourth or fifth chance. It was a tool to help you start over because not everything’s perfect the first time around. When I did my writing into the day for this, I focused on how revision doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ve messed up or done something wrong, it just means that you have a chance to make it even better.

Midterm Mission

 

 



            The other day my writing group and I went on a mission. Our task was to find a mentor text in Atkins Library. My group started by looking up what a mentor text was on the web. Once we figured that out we were on a hunt to find a book. We started out with three different choices and only one was actually in the library. We wrote down the section of the library it was in and headed up to the fifth floor. It took us forever to try and find this book and we eventually gave up. I had an idea of another book that we could use and thankfully it was in the same section, but a lot easier to find. We chose “Granny Torrelli makes Soup”. The book was about a young boy and his troubles he faced with his best friend who was also blind. The young boys would always go to granny to get advice. Granny would share her wisdom from her past experiences and was really a mentor to the two young boys.

            Documenting this midterm was a lot of fun to do. I go to follow behind everyone and take pictures every step of the way. We decided to just piece all of the pictures together and make a video.   

The Charles Sequence

                The other day in class, Lacy gave us a story called “The Charles Sequence”. It was set up like a newspaper article about a 6-year-old boy driving a car. It talked about the man that was driving in the car behind him and how he noticed something was a little off. Roy Dyer was the man driving behind him and he thought he was following a drunk, but he never saw the driver until the young boy pulled over and got out the car, Dyer was so confused.

                Lacy had us rewrite the story from one of the characters points of view. I chose Roy Dyer. After completing this assignment, I realized that this was the way I was going to write my Literacy Narrative project. It made it easier to write and since I was telling a story it made it more personal.