RJ 9
Extended Field Notes
As I took part in the intramural soccer team for the Honors College I took it upon myself to examine one of the games starting from before, during, and after the actual game. As took note, I realized that everyone on the team had lots of things to do. One of which was very common within the group, homework. Before the game While time was approaching and everyone was texting each other, many of the replies were, “I will be right over, I have to finish my homework.” Homework is a big part of literacy because without homework your individual thinking does not function to its fullest. While in the game, i paid close attention to both sides of the field listening to every call and word that each team would make. For the other team it was mainly one guy always wanting the ball. For our side on the other hand, we would strategize as we moved the ball forward thinking up every step as we approached the opponents goal in hopes that our chances of scoring would increase. As Honors students, that did not surprise me at all as it seemed we were the more organized team with a good strategy. After the game many people were happy and emotional from a well played game. Some wanted to go eat ice cream, some wanted to go get food, but the most common of all were those who not wanted to but needed to go do homework. By observing the intramural soccer team I was able to tell where their priorities are as every thing they do invloves a form of thinking, therefore their priorities were upon their success in school.
Fieldworking 3
This chapter is full of great ways to be abel to read and intrepret things but it also shows us how to find and use artifacts in an advantageous way. It tends to tell us that when you find an artifact, you should study and analyze it contemplating of what other questions that artifact could lead you to. By doing this your questions will become well drawn out and in turn, your research will be that much more effective. Not only that but it will put in your hands some really valuable information that otherwise you would not have had if you did not take time to analyze any type of artifact. For my final ethnography project I believe analyzing my information well is going to make a big difference in my results.
