Your Name:Christine Sorensen Course #:1100-028 Date:8-28-12

Project #1: Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative Part 2: Cultural Domain Analysis

Instructions (Part 1 Domain Analysis Chart): When introducing the Multi-Modal Literacy Narrative project, we established that your mind is influenced by different cultural/social systems that work both separately and together to shape your ideas, beliefs, and practices as a reader and writer. To analyze these systems, your first task is to complete the domain analysis chart in which you must reflect on each of the four domains listed below and identify as many practices, ideas/values/beliefs, objects, or significant details from each cultural/social system that you think has influenced your literacy and composition skills.

Home

Work

Immediate Family: Father, Mother, 2 Tween years: babysitter I would read Brothers stories to the kids I babysat Extended: Sister-in-law and 2 nephews Also I learned a lot household skills like Fathers mother has a library named for cleaning and cooking her Learned different ways people lived culMother is from a religious Italian/Irish tures or any other kind of traditions family Father is from a strict German family Father has his bachelors High school years: Lifeguard Mother did not go to college learned pool chemistry Moved from pennsylvania to charlotte to learned how to interact with people california to charlotte while trying to be polite My father read to me a lot as a child learned lingo for the pool Mother does not read a lot Became very observant and realized Father reads all the time how when you are at work you become inNot a very emotional family visible Very independent Started to read a lot of books out of Mother is tough to be but not to my boredom younger brother My family is well off but I am definitely not spoiled I had to pay for my car open minded let me do what I want and get things done the way I wanted

School

Neighborhood / Community / Peers

Went to elementary school in California In California I loved to play outside Had to stay in during recess so they My brother got made fun of so I became could teach me things I didnt understand sensitive towards him I learned how to be a very creative writUsed to play a lot of team games er in California A lot of different cultures I was very good in math in elementary Everyone in California thinks the world school I was always off the charts revolves around them I moved to North Carolina and I excelled In North Carolina I met a lot of people in Math and Science but I found English to that had more of a backwards way of be more difficult thinking Also history was so easy because the I became open minded to both people book we had in 9th grade at my high who were open minded and people who school was the book we had in 7th grade were closed in California I saw that even though it can be frusAlways in low reading groups because I trating that you have to except the fact was terrible at diagnostic tests that people are closed minded Still bad at diagnostic tests (LOL)

Instructions (Part 2 Domain Analysis Narrative): Now that you have completed the chart and generated some ideas about the cultural/social systems you engage with, it is time to flesh out those ideas, and analyze/explain how you think each domain has influenced your literacy and composition. For each of the systems listed below, write between 75 and 100 words to explain the major details of each cultural/social system and how the qualities of each system have influenced your literacy and composition (this means you will compose four short analyses total). You may complete your essays below. Simply type your essay next to each of the headers.

1. Home: Home influenced my literacy because it disabled me from succeeding in tak-

ing full advantage of my education by not pushing me to do my work. I did appreciate the freedom but sometimes I wish my mom would have made me read. I think though that made me the independent person I am today and without that quality I

dont think I would be doing as well in school. I might have got a better score on the English part of my SAT but I wouldnt be as good at time management.

2. Work: Work has influenced my literacy because I started to read a lot because of

how bored I was lifeguarding. I also saw the importance of reading while babysitting and seeing how other families made it so important to their daily lives. Both jobs demonstrated to me how invisible you can be to a customer of an sort and how people dont know you are watching what they are doing when you actually are not even trying to be creepy but just because that is your job.

3. School: School influenced my literacy by forcing me to read and take advantage of

my education. At home no one really pushed me to do things I just did what I liked. I really like math and science and history so I would do those subjects. However English I hated to do on my free time so I would just do that in school and thats some of the only exposure I got to English for a time.

4. Neighborhood / Community / Peers: My neighborhood influenced me in my liter-

acy by picking up lingo that my neighbors in California would use compared to what people in Charlotte use. Also people are more open minded in California but close minded to people who are closed minded. When I moved to Charlotte I saw this as a problem and saw that I need to be open minded to both and respect all views because that is that persons view and you cant take that away from them. People need to just experience different cultures though to realize that.