English assignment
Thinking Further about Your Observation Topic
Before the observation, respond to the following questions:
What is unique about the subject?
What is ordinary about the subject? (How are its qualities common to other places, people, or animals?) What does that quality show?
Is this subject symbolic of something? (Does it stand for some idea or ideal?)
After the observation, respond to the following:
Does the subject seem different after the observation (more complicated, less intimidating, more human, less human, more predictable and so on)?
What does the subject “say” about life (about human interaction, social behavior, institutions, nature, and so on) in this place and time?
