Monroe 1

Christian Monroe Mr. Borrero ENGL 1101 31 August 2011 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 Immediate Family: Mother, Father, and one sister Middle class family: Father operated with hospital instruments, and Mother was a tech operator of Mallinckrodt (aka Covidien) Mother spoke baby talk to me. Meanwhile, my Father used moderate vocabulary. Mother and Fathers highest level of education was from high school, but had a strong belief that education and literacy was the key to success throughout life Father would give some articles from newspapers to read and tell him what I read about. Father would show me some of his essays he wrote high school. Although my mother and father was not into that much reading and writing, Father would tell real life lessons from his learning experiences as to why literacy was important to him. Completed crossword puzzles. Sister, Father, and I played board games from the instructions. Mother and Father used some forms of Southern accents. (yall, fixen, oyl) Childhood home consisted of lots of art, from

Work I really did not do any work, except for volunteering. Elementary School (4th grade): Tutor for Under Leveled Students Read aloud book to children. Used math for demonstrations to children to solve problems Engaged in informal conversation with children. High School: Volunteer at Raleigh Wakemed Hospital Followed procedures with working with hospital patients. Counted number of pulses for checking vital signs with a patient. Directed people to specific areas and rooms around the hospital. Respected each walk-in guest, by using professional tone and appropriate language when talking to people. Informed from hospital people how to do procedures with patients using materials. Followed the whereabouts signs throughout the hospital for guidance. Informed guests/patients about using technology for assistance.

Monroe 2

my sister, music, and movies, but little to no novels. Listening to music on the computer. Watching the news on television with Mother, Father, and Sister during dinner time. Wrote my life stories and experiences each day inside my diary in my room. Voicing opinions was always welcome, except for hurtful conversations which were immediately handled by Mother and Father. Mother would read her recipes to me when making food. Regulations set up by Mother and Father was to always to obey. Demonstrations from Mother and Father on how to operate machines in the house. Drew pictures for the ideals I appreciated. Talked on the phone to friends and family. Prayed to God. Taught some sign language from my aunt to communicate with my uncle. School

Read outdoor warnings and name templates before entering a room. Categorize misplaced files into their rightful section. Served food to patients according to their needs. Often engaged in formal conversations with hospital patients from different backgrounds, speaking various languages about their life stories.

Neighborhood / Community / Peers Childhood Adolescence: Lived in Youngsville, North Carolina Not that many kids in my neighborhood to socialize about literacy. Raised up in a mostly black neighborhood until the construction of houses appeared in 2009. Heard a lot of distracting noises throughout my neighborhood (music blasting from cars, barking, and lots of cars). Graffiti on the roads. Lots of posted yard sales from power line poles around the neighborhood. If there were kids around they did not talk about school, therefore, was not concern about literacy. Pick up lots of littered garbage disposal on the sides of roads. Adulthood: Charlotte, N.C. The college people were very literate about their values, opinions, and beliefs. The university had a higher standard to literacy all over the campus for an opportunity to

Preschool: N/A Pronounced different sounds of numbers, and letters of the alphabet. Read aloud to many children books. Engaged in seeing patterns in numbers and letters. Spoke words that rhyme. Identified different colors of the rainbow. Learn numbers from 1 through 10. Surrounded around lots of colors, and pictures. Elementary School: Youngsville Elementary School Involved in some variety of texts. Learned the alphabet and all numbers. Learned how to read different words from reading, how to write all letters form the alphabet, and to tie my shoes. Pronounced different words using basic pronunciation of letters.

Monroe 3

Writing I did ranged from writing narratives to essays using five paragraphs. Taught how to spell words based hearing the pronunciation of words spoken to me on a spelling test. Taught different concepts to understand our reading (ex. Main idea, tone, inferences, etc.) Representation of variations of graphs, numerical texts, and arithmetic symbols. Writing words to the pictures I see in a book. Rewritten numbers and letter for memorization. Spelled words aloud in spelling bee contests. Speech Class (Grades 1-5) in Elementary Listening to auditory sounds, or people telling a story from an audio cassette. Communicating to what I learned from the story to the instructor. Filling in the blank sentences with the appropriate word. Naming pictures from a machine. Middle School: Cedar Creek Middle School Engaged in a moderate variety of texts. Learned how to write structurally sentences. Involved in some creative writing; wrote personalize journal entries from my daily life. Learned basic format to writing a paper (ex. Introduction, body, etc.) Reading aloud different texts while reading chapters in class. Engaged in working and speaking in a group on reading assignments. Learning definitions through the visualization of art. Writing answers on the board. Taught how to type. Taught different mechanics and conventions to writing a paper. (Ex. Commas, periods, colons, etc.) Presented peoples good, bad, and ugly essay writings in the class.

education. College roommates do not seem that concern on literacy but more on parties, and having fun. Sometimes, they motivated me to have some fun. College roommates may have thought I was an outsider, always pertaining to my studies, therefore, would not talk that much to me. BEST (Building Education Strengths and Talents) was very dedicated to having literacy, and pushing our strengths over the limit. People in college were very caring to literacy; therefore, made me even more encouraged in learning. Many people are spiritual in the literacy that they present events to express their opinions to other people.

High School: Franklinton High School

Monroe 4

Engaged with a wider range of texts (literature, mathematics, science, computer technology etc.) Learned more in depth forms of writings, including specific formats to writing research documents (ex. MLA format) Writing tests focused more on the writers perspectives to prompts in essay form, not too much on narratives. In English, my writings were focused on more specific ideas, to using correct punctuations, spelling, and sentence structure. Presenting our ideas or thoughts from reading to the class. Learned note-taking skills. Drawing pictures to represent our ideas. Participating in mock interviews. North Carolina State University TRIO Upward Bound Reviewed basic reading and math skills for the SAT. In English, filled in the blank sentences picking the correct choice words. Toured campuses and talked to current college students to learn about college life from different backgrounds. Looking at maps of the campus. Participate in a spelling bee. Summer College: SCIBLS (Summer College in Life Sciences) Researched in higher level scholarly documents. Used math and precision to measure substances with instruments. Presented college posters to other college students, guests, and instructors. Tour research facilities; learning about different technologies. Performed hands-on experiments in lab. My writings were extremely heavily researched through testing in the lab, to including scientific methods, and data in reports. College: UNCC Involved in a full spectrum of texts (Discussion

Monroe 5

boards, study groups, Social Network Technologies, languages, and general education). In the future, I will participate in volunteer services. High level conversations with college students, and professors (ex. Using research to support my arguments in debates, etc.). Writing focused more on narratives, but also on research in heavy scholarly documents. Writings heavily focused on a variety of formats (ex. MLA, APA, Courier).

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 has influenced me in my literacy in many ways. From my fathers words how valuable literacy was important it has forced me to continue to read. Writing journals on my life at home has helped me to include anecdotes in my writings. Reading different material, I was able to incorporate some information from different texts, or using my own knowledge into my own writing. Demonstrations from mother and father, made me able to create ideas from prompts or visualize how I could write thing out to make the paper understandable. Playing board games like SCRAMBLE for vocabulary.

2. Work: Talking to many people and children from my volunteering, it has affected me to write in many different tones in my writings. These tones in my writings could address to people how I feel about my thoughts and ideas of a specific topic. Following procedures from books, and reading up on signs from my volunteer service has allowed me to stay focus to what prompts address me to write about, without getting off topic. Reading aloud to another kid, has allowed me grasp a better understanding to what the text is asking me.

3. School: Being able to pronounce letters from pre-school to elementary school it has affected me to read a loud any words from a book. Having a teacher to show good, bad and ugly essays has motivated me to write better as a writer, by writing sentences to support my ideas without any grammatical errors. Participating in spelling bees in elementary school has made me able to write uncommon words based on the pronunciation and write new words. Being in mock interviews has made me to communicate better in writing so people can get an understanding.

Monroe 6

4. Neighborhood / Community / Peers: When living in my neighborhood at the time, there was not that many kids, therefore, when I wrote essays I was not able to give that much thought in details. Hearing many distractions has caused me to lose focus to my understanding of reading. Kids like some in college have influenced me to not read a lot. I being in my room a lot have caused me to think a lot in my writings; to take time to think, until I grasp an idea. With spiritual people around the college it has motivated me to be creative in my writings.