Ethnography Interviews

For our (me, Brian, Gabi) ethnography project we decided to include an interview into our audio recording. So over the weekend we all picked one person to interview and we asked them three questions about sound. I interviewed my friend who was from New York because I figured she would be used to a lot different things. I asked her, Where did you grow up and describe how growing up there was in terms of sound?, How does the sound you are used to growing up in New York differ from what you hear now in Charlotte?, and for the last question we all thought of different ones. Mine was, Do you agree that sound differs in different cultures?. My friend told how she was used to the busy sounds of New York and then when she came down here she noticed things were much calmer and people didnt talk as fast or loud.

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

In class, Lacy read us the story "Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge". Afterwards she asked us to list five things. Those things were: something warm, something from long ago, something that makes you cry, something that makes you laugh, and something as precious as gold. For something warm I listed my dog Niko when he used to sleep next to me every night. For something form long ago I said a teddy bear that I got the day I was born named "Brownie Bear". Something that makes me cry is any song that has to do with the father daughter relationship and growing up. Something that makes me laugh is a picture from last thanksgiving of my mom and my grandma making silly faces at the camera. And something as precious as gold are lyrics, written on a sheet of notebook paper, of a song my dad had wrote a while ago and I remember telling him he was going to be the next James Taylor.

This page in my journal is one of my favorites so far because it let me relive some very good memories. Although at first I thought it was a little weird that Lacy was reading a childrens book to a group of college kids, I now understand the underying message.

Annotated Bibliography

Student Union at UNCC, Charlotte, NC. 30 Oct. 2012. Josie Young. IMG_2576

This is a picture of the student union at UNCC. I chose to take this picture to show where I was sitting when I did my observations. The topic I did was sound so I sat in the union and wrote everything I heard.

Ethnography Mapping in Daybook, Charlotte, NC. 30 Oct. 2012. Josie Young. IMG_2578

This is a picture of my notes I took in my daybook. I took my daybook with me to me to the student union. When I was there at the student union I took noted on everything I heard since my topic was sound.

Ethnography Mapping, Class notes. English 1100. Lacy Manship. 30 Oct. 2012

This is my citation of my actual written notes in my daybook. The notes in my daybook were on my topic, sound, for my ethnography project.

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.