Reading Log

Quote: "Political divisions of territory split the urban world into many enclaves experienced from many different perspectives. Cognitive mapping is a tool for discovering fuller territorial information about contemporary populations." (27) Response: This quote and this kind of thinking helped my group decide on what to do. We chose to go along with the idea of mapping and how people experience things differently, so we wanted to provide different perspectives on what life is like in LA. That is how we landed on the idea to provide video footage of how we each got to school and to let our peers see what their classmates lives' are like. In this way, we decided to expand on the idea that everyone's reality is different and decided to show it to the classroom.

Quote: "Positioning students as informed interpreters of their experiences with school writing and academic literary can open the door to a generative inquiry into the relationship between writing or literacy and it's social-historical and personal context." (164) Response: This is one of the many reasons why I enjoyed writing in high school. While there were more academic essays assigned, there would be the occasional one that would be dedicated to our lives. I liked these, because as this quote explains, it meant that I got to express myself however I want since it was my story I was telling. This can relate to the MVA since we had to talk about our community and we could express it however we wanted it, some wrote stories, poems, and others did videos, while others did music lyrics and images. Just by looking at the different mediums every group used to express their ideas highlights and enforces the idea that when students are in charge of their own format and creat...

Quote: "Writing a multi-voiced argument gives students a chance to experience argument as an inquire, a process that leads to exploring, testing, and discussing, rather than focus on winning a case." (3) Response:This spoke to me personally after reflecting back on our own MVA. The assignment itself was very broad, again, and it begged for imagination to be used. After seeing everyone's presentations, they were all very different and focused on different things. My group, for example, did a video focusing on the walk-though style, while other groups decided to do a powerpoint. Just by examining the manner we decided to present our project is proof of what this quote is trying to explain; students will be more creative and have to push past obstacles to can occur while trying to expand on building an argument that isn't in essay form. I really liked this idea since it gets students to use the skills to rite an essay but making them not so obvious and entertaining tha...