Update on New Literacies Project

Amanda and I met today and hammered out a few ideas for our project. We are going to be exploring the Jewish culture and what comes with it. We are going to talk about terms and ideas that most people that are not Jewish aren't familiar with, in hopes that they will become familiar with the heritage and culture. We are talking about anything from common Jewish terminology, to the importance of food being kosher.
This project is teaching me a lot in the aspect that everything that happens in the world has its own language, and people that are not familiar with the language being spoken, are going to feel like outsiders. I know I talk a lot about baseball, and someone who is not familiar with the sport may feel bad if I was using baseball terminology in a conversation. Amanda is very familiar with the Jewish culture, and I am somewhat familiar with it, and I see how important it is to become literate in as many different things as possible because it makes the person and student more well rounded and more likely to succeed in every day life.