Conducting a Family Survey

by | Jun 27, 2020 | Survey

Background information

Child Name: Carolyn
Family :
Lives in unit in the inner city with her Dad, Mum and Grandma.
Has a pet goldfish called Jin 金

Community:
Attends daycare 3 days per week, has been attending for about 9mths.
Prior to that was cared for by Grandma at home whilst mum/dad worked
Also attends Mandarin Playgroup with grandma 1 morning per week
Goes to Library and local park most weekends with Dad

Funds of knowledge

  • Speaks Mandarin at home.
  • Carolyn’s family reads to her daily in both Mandarin and English.
  • She enjoys Thomas tank, Dora and Micky Mouse.
  • Parent goal: To use her home language proudly, continue learning English too.
  • Interacts with a range of texts (books, ipad, community signs, home language newspapers, radio and TV)
  • She likes trains, cooking, singing and dancing

Interests

  • Trains
  • Animals
  • Dancing
  • Drawing/writing
  • Playing imaginative role play games
  • Reading Family Survey
  1. Child’s Name: Carolyn
  2. Who lives at home? :
    Mum, Dad, Grandma and her pet fish ‘Jin’
  3. What languages do you /Child speak? :
    Our family speaks Mandarin (Chinese), Carolyn has spoken this since birth and her father also speaks to her in English so she knew lots of Mandarin as well as some English when she started preschool
  4. What are her interests? What does she like to do when she is not at preschool?
    Carolyn likes lots of things and is happy to try any new activity. She like trains, dancing, craft and sometimes cooking. On Tuesdays she goes to a Mandarin Playgroup with her Grandma, her cousin also attends this playgroup.
  5. Favourite Toy / Game at home?
    She loves Mickey Mouse, Thomas the Tank, and likes to play Mandarin Matching Game with her Grandma
  6. How would you describe her ?
    She is funny, asks lots of questions but can be quiet too especially with new people or places. She likes to draw and spends lots of time drawing at home.
  7. Do you have any specific goals or aspirations for her learning?
    To have fun, be a good friend, be proud and use her Mandarin
    language skills and keep learning English too
  8. What type of texts does she like to view/read?
    books  TV-  Music
    ipad/iphone  board games  magazines
    signs in environment
     other: birthday cards, she likes to make them
  9. From 1 highest – 5 lowest what doe you think your child’s literacy strengths are
     watching writing drawing talking/listening reading

Thank you for your time on this survey

Observation 1

Child’s/Children’s Name/s: Carolyn Date: 28.042019

What is the context? (Who is present, what are they doing, what happened prior to this etc.)

The children have had lunch and some of the children are resting. Carolyn has picked up a book and is looking at the pictures.

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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