5c

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

I choose Jessica from group number 3. She wrote about the My California authors, Firoozeh Dumas, Devorah Major, Michael Chabon and Kathi Kamen Goldmark.


2. What is something this classmate said about the choice that relates to any of the assignments in projects 2-3?

In projects 2 and 3 we talked about people, and places in California. How people are viewed and what the cities offer. When Jessica talks about Berkley, Oakland and San Francisco in Chabon’s story it made me think of how we chose a cities and compared them. I said some very similar things when I researched the cities for the previous projects. How different the people are, their attitudes, and especially how America is viewed by others in this way where everything is the same, such as when people classify L.A. as being the whole state. The author is saying that California is composed of the same stores and houses. We learned about our state in those types of ways in projects 2 and 3.


3. What is something different this classmate said about their choice that you did not realize before when you completed projects 2-3?

When she talks about the story “Cotton Candy Mirrors” by Devorah Major, she picks the quote when Major says she uses other people’s eyes to see different views. I thought that was interesting because that’s what we have been doing in projects 2 and 3, but I never really thought about it as deeply as I did after reading that quote and explanation.


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?

By reading the parts of the story’s that Jessica wrote about and how she herself learned and remembered things through out her life made me think how little things like a fair, or a bigger house can mean so much to some people. Everything in life is a reminder to someone of memory’s or important events.

5. How has project 2-3 helped you with the readings of the textbook?

It prepared me not only by researching and learning more of a background of California, but it helped me to read other peoples blogs in class and see how they view things. Just to see if we viewed things in the same way or differently. By seeing that others viewed things differently it allows you to grow as a person and take that new information in to learn from.