First Reaction to Ways with Words

I started reading Ways with Words last night. It is fascinating both in content and on the meta-reading level of understanding how the text may be a model to draw on in my own ethnographic studies. So, while Heath is describing Dee and the other residents of Roadville, I am trying to absorb who Dee and the other residents are while also thinking about the thoroughness of her descriptions, the types of scenes and objects she describes as well as Heath invisibility in the introductory chapters. I hope we can take some time in class to talk about why this work is so important and the impact it has had on literacy scholarship.

(Short post--just wanted to jot down my initial thoughts before they escaped me.)