The survey will be conducted while we re reading and discussing Our Town . Rapoport hypothesizes that buildings and spaces offer nonverbal cues to observers. In order to read the buildings which will be part of our survey, we must rely heavily on the visual sense, since direct observation is called for. The haptic sense would come to the fore as we targeted and interpreted details. The nonverbal cues a building or space offers can be physical , size and shape being the most obvious.
Cues can also be social .
I would like the class to pay special attention to the social cues, since many students do not live in or near the area we ll be studying. We will note the religious feasts, the Cherry Blossom Festival and our own school fair. Ideally, it serves as a structural link in the neighborhood. Alice in Wonderland was chosen because of the often comical, though no less frightening, bodily changes the main character undergoes. Her confusion about who she is and where she is will seem familiar to my seventh-graders.