Project 2, Read 142

1. Making A New Friend
By: Laura Kraft
READ 142
M/W

2. A Fact From Julie’s Profile
 Fact: Julie loves music
 Inference: She likes listening to music
anytime she can.
 Assumption: Often times
those who listen to music enjoy it.
 Shared Value : Music Appreciation

3. Habits Of Mind
 The Critical Thinking Habits of Mind presented in
Julie’s Profile include:
 Inquisitive:
 Explanation: She presents all the different music she
likes with the variety of songs on her iPhone.
 Support: “I love music ! I don’t really have one genre I
specifically like. I’ve got pop, rap, country and rock in
my library.”
 Score: 3: Developing: Most often the person strives
to be well informed, wants to know how things work,
and seeks to learn new things about a wide range of
topics. A sense of intellectual curiosity is present.

4. Habits Of Mind (Cont.)
 Truth-seeking
 Explanation: Julie is direct
in what she is looking for
and states and clearly her
reasons.
 Support: “I’d love to have a
friend who has a child so
we could have play
dates, with the occasional
nights out to act with a little
Inanity ”
 Score:4: Exemplary: The
person is trustful of his or
her own reasoning skills to
yield good judgments.

5. Ambiguity
 Problematic Ambiguity
 An example of problematic ambiguity
that can be found in Julie’s profile
includes:
 Problematic Ambiguity: “I love collecting
pallets.”
 Resolution: Clarifying Intent.
 Explanation of Resolution: Using the
word eye shadow pallets would clearly
stipulate what she defines as a
“pallets”. This would help the reader to
understand more accurately what her
vagueness is about make-up pallets.

6. Language Community
Language
Community:
Family Community
A Term Used in the
Profile:
She is a Mom.

7. Emotional Appeals
Just Plain Folks: I’m kind of a homebody so
my favorite place to be is home watching
movies or reality television.”
Appeals to Tradition: “I would consider
myself a religious person, I do believe in
God and communicate through prayers.”

8. Julie’s Ideal Friend
The New Friend is …
Tony

9. A Fact From Tony’s Profile
Fact: He likes music
Inference: He drives around blasting music
in his car.
Assumption: Often times
those who listen to music enjoy it.
Shared Value : Music Appreciation

10. Habits of Mind
 The Critical Thinking Habits of Mind displayed in Tony’s Profile
include:
 Open-minded:
 Explanation: He displays a strong sense of curiosity when he states
how he likes to be outdoors, playing or coaching T-ball.
 Support: “I really enjoy being outdoors hiking, playing with my
brothers.”
 Score: 3: Developing: Most often the person strives to be well
informed, wants to know how things work, and seeks to learn new
things about a wide range of topics. A sense of intellectual curiosity
is present.
Therefore, by comparing the Habits of Mind displayed in Tony’s profile,
with those found in Julie’s profile, we can see clearly that they both
show the same dichotomy when it comes to family and education,
and how important they are to them.

11. Ambiguity
 Problematic Ambiguity
 An example of problematic ambiguity that can be found in
Tony’s profile includes:
 Problematic Ambiguity: “Hole in the wall”
 Resolution: Clarifying Intent.
 Explanation of Resolution: It would clearly explain what he
refers to as a “hole in the wall”. This would allow the reader to
reach a valid understanding the meaning of this statement.
By looking at the ambiguous language found in both Tony’s and
Julie’s profiles, we can see that they demonstrate the same
substantive language that young people talk these days.

12. Language Community
Language Community General Definition: People
who shared an understanding of the meanings of the
words and icons can be thought of as a community
defined in part by its shared language, or a language
community.
 Language Community:
Family
 A Term Used in the Profile:
I enjoy being around my family and kids
Looking at Julie’s and Tony’s profiles, we can see that
they have similar Language Communities, which both
involve the area of family and kids and the exemplary
way they feel about kids and family..

13. Emotional Appeals
 Just Plain Folks: “I’m an introvert in the way that I
can be completely happy by myself just watching
TV or listening to music at home.”
 Reflecting on the connections between Julie’s and
Tony’s profiles, we can see that they both use the
same Emotional Appeal of “Just Plain Folks.”

14. Cacophony between friends
This sounds like Julie and Tony would be able to give each
other the qualities that they respect in a friendship because…
 They both have facts that they love family and meeting new
friends. They both love music.
 They both show that truth seeking and open mindedness in
their Thinking Habits of Mind.
 The profiles both show examples of Problematic ambiguity
when they use slang words.
 In both profiles a similar Language Community can be
found, which involves family.
 Also, Tony and Julie use the same emotional appeal of “Just
Plain Folks” within their profiles.
Therefore, based an examination of both of the profiles, we can
see that both Tony and Julie could easily relate to each
other, because they have the same language
communities, emotional appeals and the same shared value
in music.

15. Family Connections

16. Family Cont.

17. Family Life