Ethnography Project

For our Ethnography we choose to do Public Writing. This extended from posters to bulletin boards to graffiti  to white boards. My portion of the project was to observe white boards across the dorm. I am having trouble uploading a picture of my daybook observations, but here is the breakdown.
Public Writing

• 5 Boards
• 3 Blank
• 1 with a :D
• 1 with a blue ink smudge
• 5 were girls dorms
• 1 had a picture of everybody that lived there

Analysis 

 Most people must clean their boards off or people had simply not written on their boards. Also that only girls had white boards on their door. I do not know the significance of that, but there has to be some connection. There is correlation but there is no causation behind it. 

Link to Our Groups Google Map

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en

Mapping Mini Assignment

This shows where the start of the trail is

This is the next sign after it 

1/4 mile marker and bench 

Found this kind of amusing 

there is no 1/2 marker so here's the 3/4 marker

1 mile marker

1 1/4 mile marker and garbage can 

1 mile and 1/2 marker 

trail that leads back to the campus

This is a map of where I did my mapping. It is the greenway. I took pictures of different points of the trail that had literacy involved with it. Those were the pictures from my run that had to do with literacy. I did not draw a map in my daybook because it is hard to bring my daybook on a run. So I used pictures instead and a map from google maps to show where it was. Also the pictures are all in order of where they are on the map going from right to left, except for the last one. The last one is right after the first picture. These signs have are significant literacy signage because they let runners, walkers, and bikers know where they are on the trail. They let them know how far they have ran and also how much longer they have(if they have been on the trail). 

The Charles Sequence Reflective Blog

A couple weeks ago we read a story about a little boy that wanted to see his dad at work. The little boy then took his mom's car and started driving it to try and see his dad. The car rolled off the side of the road right before the interstate. There was a driver behind him and a cop, so we could choose one of the perspectives of somebody in the story. After we choose somebodies perspective we then had to right about the events solely from their eyes. I decided to write from the perspective of the man driving the car behind him. When we were done with the first try Lacy then asked us to read some of ours. We all did it the same way, we all did it in a past tense looking back at it. So she challenged us to try and write it in the moment of all the events. This was different and interesting, now thinking back on it I don't think that I have really tried writing in the moment. It was a different kind of challenge, and you can tell by my writing that it was choppy and not flowing like it could have been. It is good that we challenge ourselves in our writing in order to grow as writers. Although everybody dreads challenges in the end a challenge is what helps you grow and become a stronger writer. I really like these different exercises that Lacy has us do that make us write in a different manner than what we are accustomed to. Thank you Lacy, for helping me grow as a writer.

Midterm Blog

For our midterm for English we had two parts the first part was to comment on others blogs and then the second part was with your group and to find a mentor text. We had to find a mentor text and write beside at the library. Here is the documentation of our adventure. 

These are the screenshots of recording how we found the mentor texts we choose. Everywhere we looked for mentor texts, they always came up as children's books. I think this is because in a children's book you can experiment more with how you write and also how you present the writing more than if it was a novel of some sorts published for an older reading crowd. 

We ended up in choosing I Stink to write beside. 

Here is the video of us actually looking for the books that we did find online. I am sorry I had to edit out the part of us writing because it just shows my knee and the table the whole time. Sorry:/. 

Youtube Midterm Library Walkthrough . It did not take us long to find the mentor texts in the library because we had already looked up what we were going to get and where that would be. I thought overall the whole process was interesting and fun. I imagined finding a different mentor texts, but I think the one we did find and write beside was as effective if not more than any other we could have chosen from. It used a different way of writing and that was cool and interesting.