Task 1-No posting on Blog
Task Two:
1. We are going to be going around the city of Southfield. We plan on visiting the Library, Civic Center, Music Store, Restaurants, Grocery Stores and homes/apartments. We chose these places because they are all big parts of a city and are places that our students and their families frequent often.
2. We expect to see many different diverse people, families and people working and shopping in these areas. We expect to see students and people using the library and civic center as well. We expect to hear conversation and learning taking place. We expect to learn everything that we can about the school, the students and their families and the community.
3. Our visits confirm our expectations through learning about new places and ideas and seeing our students and their families in their “natural community” doing what they normally do, being people. Our visits, in my opinion do not disconfirm my expectations. I feel that there were not any expectations that I placed on this inquiry because I wanted to go into it with an opened mind. So for this question I say N/A.
4. Each of the three questions above relate to literacy in many ways. In all locations that we are going to view and have viewed there is literacy everywhere. On signs, people talking, asking questions if you are not sure about something. Reading menus or books in the library. Listening to music and comprehending what you are hearing. Seeing, hearing and learning about all the different aspects of our community involve literacy in every way possible. Like stated earlier in order to understand what you are seeing, hearing and learning you need to be literate and able to comprehend the world that is going on around you. Students develop this as they grow but in order to develop this, they need to learn how to read, write and speak.
-The types of interactions that we are likely to see while we are investigating are people communicating and having conversations, people writing down information for example if a waitress is writing down an order in a restaurant, people talking and giving directions orally, different types of languages being spoken as the city is very diverse, etc.
Sample Questions:
1. We expect to see lots of new literacies within the community including- churches, shops and restaurants owned by those of a different culture than American.
2. We expect to see traditional literacies in neighborhood communities and within churches. Possible a Jewish Church or an Arabic Church with different language written.
3. Oral texts that are shared in the community include all signs on the streets and within stores and shops and restaurants, churches, civic centers, the library and schools.
4. There will be writing all over the community and we are expected to see many different writing of different languages (in some areas of high volume of a certain culture.)
5. Expectations, surprises and questions are all different from each person within the group and we each took something different away from the activity. There are many things in the community that allowed us to look at our students in a deeper light and learn about their culture and community from which they come.
6. A question that we have is this, there are so many stores, shops, restaurants, etc. for people to work at and live but our school has the highest poverty rate in all of Southfield, how do these things correlate?
Task Three:
Questions from task two above:
1. We noticed many things from the ‘investigation’ and found out lots of new information. We didn’t want to put expectations on ourselves because if we wanted to have no bias or opinions at all, just facts. We were surprised by the sense of community shared by many. By the beautiful library and civic center to keep students and families busy during summer and even the school weeks to help keep students out of trouble. We were surprised by all the different homes and how they looked so similar. We were surprised by in certain areas the lack of different languages written on common signs for such a high volume of diversity.
2. Again, we did not want to have expectations because we wanted to have a free and clear mind on our assignment and not pressure ourselves if we did not find what we wanted to. We felt that this experience was helpful in us learning about our students and their cultures and their homes- in sense we saw them as more than students but as people and part of a community.
Task Four- Blog for 9/28
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