Write an analytical response to the Ghosts in the Schoolyard excerpt. Your response should not summarize the reading, but rather discuss your reaction to and analysis of the text and writing itself.
Be sure to craft a thesis statement that makes an analytical claim about the text that you then support by pointing to specific quotes throughout your response.
Think about not only the text overall, but also the individual elements and ideas that make it up. How does a specific quote, detail, image, or symbol speak to a larger theme or idea?
Feel free to include your personal reactions to specific moments in the text, as well as a comparison between Eve Ewing’s response to learning about the 2013 Chicago school closings and your own response to the event you wrote about in your discussion board post.
*MLA format*
(500 – 750 words)
Assignment #2 Places, Spaces, and Moments in Time Essay PART 1: FIELDNOTES
Select a space that connects to your autoethnography topic and that you feel like you relate to personally and/or culturally. This can be a literal, physical place or a digital space, as long as it is somewhere people interact with each other in some way. Spend at least twenty minutes in this space and take notes on everything you notice, engaging each of your five senses as much as possible. (250 word minimum)
PART 2: REFLECTION
Reflect on your notes and the various thoughts, feelings, associations, and memories that come up for you. With these connections in mind, consider the following questions: How does this space function in relation to your community or topic? How do you relate to it personally and culturally? How do the descriptions in your notes reflect this relationship? How might someone with no personal/cultural connection to this space experience it differently? (250 word minimum)
(500 – 1000 words total)
Assignment #3 Symbols, Rituals, and Remembering Essay Brainstorm a list of symbols (images, objects, etc.) and rituals (recurrent and culturally significant events) related to your autoethnography topic. Select at least one ritual and one symbol from your list and spend a few minutes engaging in deep observation and sense-based description of each. If you can’t directly observe your ritual and symbol, think back on your personal experiences and describe them from your memories. (250 words minimum)
PART 2: REFLECTION
Reflect on your descriptions and the various thoughts, feelings, associations, and memories that come up or you. With these connections in mind, consider the following questions: How does the symbol you’ve observed represent or function in relation to your community or topic? What about the ritual? How do you relate to each both personally and culturally? How do your descriptions reflect these relationships? How might someone with no connection to your autoethnography topic relate to this symbol and ritual differently? (250 words minimum)
(500 – 1000 words total)
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