We had two very big projects in my composition theory class. One was writing about our literacy history and the other was an ethnography. Both were new ideas to me. The literacy History project just like this class made me reevaluate what I thought I knew. It was all about defamiliarizing myself with things I thought I knew so I could accurately observe it without any biases. Writing my literacy history made me think about things I hadn't really thought about. Like the value my parents placed on my education and how my surroundings affected my literacy. The ethnography was interesting. I chose to observe the print of two different areas and draw conclusions of those areas based on the print I found there. Ethnography is defined as the study of human races and cultures.
After revising my Literacy Narrative I realized that the Ghanaian community I live in has greatly affected my learning. As I explained in my narrative, I live in an apartment complex with a lot of other Ghanaians. I never realized the flow of information in the community and it's effect on me until I started working on my literacy narrative. My father and I were coming back from doing errands, we got into the elevator with a man my dad knew. They engaged in polite small talk, I caught bits and pieces of the man bragging about how well his son was doing in school one day. My father asked the man from 32, back then I knew people by what floor they lived on, if his son could tutor me some time. That's how I got my first tutor. What amazes me about theory is it's ability to look into something so common, like two men setting up an agreement and break it down into networks and culture. The ethnography was supposed to connect to a theory or an idea we found interesting. I chose to connect my project to the political aspect of literacy. Looking at the print in a wealthy neighborhood in Ithaca and the print in a poorer section sounded like fun.
After revising my Literacy Narrative I realized that the Ghanaian community I live in has greatly affected my learning. As I explained in my narrative, I live in an apartment complex with a lot of other Ghanaians. I never realized the flow of information in the community and it's effect on me until I started working on my literacy narrative. My father and I were coming back from doing errands, we got into the elevator with a man my dad knew. They engaged in polite small talk, I caught bits and pieces of the man bragging about how well his son was doing in school one day. My father asked the man from 32, back then I knew people by what floor they lived on, if his son could tutor me some time. That's how I got my first tutor. What amazes me about theory is it's ability to look into something so common, like two men setting up an agreement and break it down into networks and culture. The ethnography was supposed to connect to a theory or an idea we found interesting. I chose to connect my project to the political aspect of literacy. Looking at the print in a wealthy neighborhood in Ithaca and the print in a poorer section sounded like fun.
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