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1 Mini-Ethnography Dr. Grutsch McKinney November 5th 2009 ENG 605 Stephanie Hedge Red. An Ethnography (A Rough Draft) My Original Brilliant Plan Hi. I’m Steph. I was pretty confident going into this that I had the best. idea. ever. Weeks before the... More

1 Mini-Ethnography Dr. Grutsch McKinney November 5th 2009 ENG 605 Stephanie Hedge Red. An Ethnography (A Rough Draft) My Original Brilliant Plan Hi. I’m Steph. I was pretty confident going into this that I had the best. idea. ever. Weeks before the ethnography was even assigned officially, I mentioned to my friend Jim (a Literature PhD student who teachers 103) that I had to observe a class, and he immediately proclaimed that I should watch his class. Whatever his motivation was, from that point on I just kind of assumed that I would end up in his classroom. Jim has focused his 103 class around gender exploration. The first paper his students have to write is a gender narrative. I thought that this provided me with a singularly unique opportunity. I will go in and watch how his students interact, and look at how gender roles play out in a classroom that studies gender so closely. I had a list of terribly pertinent questions to ask. I sat in the class and dutifully started Less