Exploration Two: First Blog post from Brian Klunder

Hello, my name is Brian Klunder. I graduated from Dublin Scioto High School in 2015 and come from around Columbus. I am currently undecided, but am leaning on majoring in Art for the time being. My plans for college is to stay here at OSU Marion for a year, then plan on transferring to the main campus for it's diverse selection of classes and for it being close to where I live currently. I enjoy hobbies such as, video-games, fishing, drawing, and I also enjoy reading. My fun fact, is that I am a shy individual and, as a result, tend not to get involved in discussions unless i'm in a scenario where I have to. Most of the time I will be somewhat silent not just in classrooms but in general.

        In the reading "From Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High", what stood out to me as a theme in this examination is how the yearbooks are written and reviewed by other students based by their social status in their independently formed communities within their school. This theme is shown by how some of the students would withdraw out of yearbook signings purely due to relationships with other students, even if there was no relationship, and groups of students would cluster together and sign each other yearbooks as a result they shut out the others that are not a part of their group and lacks diversity in writings. I learned that literacy events are moments in our life in which reading and writing becomes a stable part of who we ultimately are and how we create the interactions that we make with other people. This writing demonstrates the literacy events that I believe to be what they are when the students are passing around their yearbooks that they have received from their teachers, signing and commenting the yearbooks of their friends resulting in stronger, reinforced social groups. At the same time it silences other voices due to social interactions, or the lack there of, with those that aren't as popular as some of the kids can be.