Activity One (15 minutes)
Open your daybook (hard copy or digital file) to the Box 2 assignment from Fieldworking. Make sure the response is clearly labeled and your name is visible. Pass your daybook to (or switch seats with if yours is digital)a classmate.

Read your classmate's response and write (or type) your comments underneath. Comment on the following:

• Can you tell which ritual the author is describing? Name it.
• Are you familiar with that ritual?
• Have you ever stopped to reflect on that ritual or routine?
• Has the writer taken an outsider perspective and made the familiar seem strange and new?
• How?
• Underline a sentence or phrase that you are particularly fond of. Why do you like it?
• Suggest how the writer could revise to make it an excellent blog post.

Pass the daybooks back (or reclaim your original seat) and read your classmate's response. Ask him or her any questions your might have for clarification.

Activity Two (30 minutes)
Get together with your writing group members and choose an article from one of the newspapers your group brought to class. Choose a scribe and a reader. Have the reader read the choosen article outloud. As a group, you should then help your scribe to compose a summary, making sure that you are including pertinent citation information, using your own words, getting the main idea and key points, and representing the information accurately.

Next, use Box 3 in Fieldworking to help you extend the journalistic perspective into an ethnographic perspective. Together, answer these questions:

• What is the purpose of a newspaper article versus that of an ethnography?
• What questions could you ask of whom to find out more about the culture or subculture of the subjects?
• What do you, as readers, want to learn more about?
• Are there any unstated assumptions that seem to be implicit in the article?
• What do notice if you read between the lines?

List at least ten questions that could guide a fieldworker in using this artifact (the newspaper article) to develop an ethnography. Then, list the assumptions or biases that are either implicit or directly stated in the article. How would those biases or assumptions be handled in an ethnography? Think about Friday Night at Iowa 80 as you answer these questions.

We'll share theseat the start of our next class meeting.