• What  about Rita’s “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing” has changed?
  • How would Gee explain Rita’s comment that she wanted to tell someone “who would understand” about her night at the theater?
  • Which other concepts from our readings might the clip illustrate?

Once you’ve discussed the clip as a group, use class time to make your own claim about what you see happening in the scene. Your response should use concepts drawn from Gee and Cuddy, make use of direct quotation from both, and follow Barclay’s formula. Add your response to your ePortfolio reading/writing log.

Rita’s hair has changed from some pink to blonde. She is reading shakespeare. Reading is a bi part of mastering this discourse. She’s putting effort to learn the “doing” part of mastering a discourse. Rita is developing the  “believing” part as well as she gets more comfortable with learning and being around “educated people in a school setting”

She feels comforted by the professor. He has to even push her with his hands to guide her to her seat because of how out of place she acts/feels. Very nervous about entering classroom.

The professor let her be in the classroom which let her have some access to this primary discourse. Her apprenticeship is in full effect.