4c Classmate Response

“4c Classmate Reflection from 3a”

Leanne Sjoren’s Blog

REFLECTIONChoose any 1 classmate of project 3 that wrote about your same topic in any one component (a World Cities, b Beaches, c Inland Areas) and briefly compare/contrast their choices using the following format in a blog post:1. Who is your classmate, what is the component category, what is the name of the choice?

My classmate is Leanne Sjoren. Her topic was world cities, and she focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles. (Northern and Southern California) We both compared two well known cities at the opposite end of the state. We both used S.F. and had some similiar thoughts and some different ones.

EXAMPLE Liz and I both focused on blank 1 point What is something similar this classmate said about the choice?

Leanne and I had some of the same stereotypes about the two regions of the state. We also both talked about the contrast in the weather and the beaches. Her information was a combination of my cities and beaches.What is something different this classmate said about the choice?Leanne noted how S.F. and L.A. are both magnets for artistic and creative people. She also noted the geography and how L.A. is spread out and S.F. is confined to a smaller area. She also brought out that L.A. weather could be considered paradise and that everyone hangs out with movie stars and drives expensive cars. She also stated that she felt Alfred Hitchcock contributed to the era of mystery and mystic of S.F. by his movies.

EXAMPLE Liz and I have differing opinions on blank.

Leanne and I differed on our curiosity about L.A. She wanted to know what it would really be like to live in LA and I would have no desire to find out. I do not like the crowded and busy life style of the L.A. area. I will take the quiet, slow pace of a small town any day.

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?

Leanne wanted to know what it would really be like to live in LA and I would have no desire to find out. I do not like the crowded and busy life style of the LA area and she seems like she would like it. The only new idea from this topic might be my feeling that the state should be divided into North and South. My parents always tell people (especially out of state) that we are from “Northern California” because of the many stereotypes of Southern California. Usually it is Northern, in the wine country or redwoods. This is stressed to eliminate that California image.
The dialogue did the following.To generate new knowledge about global studies. To spur greater civic engagement and social responsibility. To cultivate intercultural competencies.

http://leannesjoen.blogspot.com/2009/03/3a-world-cities.html