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Writing Exercises: Practice Analyzing Artifacts

Writing Exercises: Practice Analyzing Artifacts

For this activity you'll focus on the artifacts that seem central to the subculture you are studying, and you will try to analyze what those artifacts reflect about the subculture.

Choose three artifacts from the subculture you are studying. Using the spaces provided at the Companion Web site, Chapter 10, Writing Exercises: Practice Analyzing Artifact, or by writing in your notebook, respond to the following questions for EACH artifact.

This activity contains 8 questions.

Explain why you chose the objects you did.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

What do you already know about this object? How does that affect your interpretation of its significance in the subculture?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

How is it connected to the other artifacts you've collected?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

Think about the values this artifact reflects for this subculture. What are they?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

How is this object used in the subculture? What does that tell you about its significance and the value it has for the group?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

How is this artifact connected to other behaviors and values in this group?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

What research might you do on the object's history? uses?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

Then, in the space below, finish the following sentence for each of the three artifacts you have chosen:

The three (or more) most important things this artifact tells me about this subculture are...because....

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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