[Homework responses] ENGL 1102-24 Jiae Kim #800808842

After having read Bartlett and Holland's work, please respond to the following. As you are responding/defining terms, please paraphrase and use your own words/sentence patterns; do not simply copy straight from the text. 1. 2. 3. 4. According to the text, how do the authors define an actor? artifact? figured worlds? How do Bartlett and Holland define a literacy practice? What counts as literacy? How do figured worlds come into play concerning actors and artifacts? List three questions you have the content or your understanding of this article.

[Question 1/3] Figured worlds can be defined as a kind of social and cultural community made with specific purposes, actors, activities, and identities in practice. Those are produced and constructed though artifacts, activities, and identities in practice. If you choose artifacts in the figured world, those artifacts have to be meaningful in the figured world. In other words, an artifact is a thing to open up figured worlds. Actors are kind of people to be able to form and perform in the figured worlds in practice. Deeply interaction with the figured worlds makes them be more like actors. [Question 2] According to Bartlett and Holland, literacy practice is a context of social, political, and historical literacy events. These days it tends that literacy theorists try to link literacy practices to the discourses that situate them. [Question 4] 1) What can be an example of literacy events? 2) Is study in Brazil authentic to support authors explanation? 3) Choosing artifacts in the figured world can be subjective?