4b

1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?

I choose Cathrynn, for component 3a (world citites), and the city of Los Angeles.


2. What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?

We both talked about how Los Angeles is high in tourism and has a large population that is very diverse with 3.8 million people. Also it has a stereotype of being where all the rich people live, but has gang problems as well.

3. What is something different this classmate said about the choice?

She talked about how Los Angeles has one of the most popular colleges in California, which is UCLA, and also how it could be known for its devastating earthquake. I had never thought of those two aspects when I was writing about Los Angeles.



4. How would you relate this to Freire's ideas regarding dialogue? For example, you went in thinking one idea, your classmate had a different idea. What new idea emerged from this process?

Cathrynn and I had very similar views of Los Angeles, yet just a few things made a difference. I went in thinking more about population, diversity, societal problems, such as gang valance and also stereotypes. Where as Cathrynn covered those things as well, but went even further into critically thinking about the city with schools, such as UCLA, and also earthquakes. It made me realize that I stayed very on the surface of the typical aspects of the city. By reading hers and how she just took it a little step further with UCLA and earthquakes, it made me realize how much further I could have gone. The way we wrote it and how we put our views in different places with in our basic format reminds me of Freire’s view of dialogue.