Assignment Two for Price's Class

Social Situation: Neighborhood Park

Actors

Children (on the playground, playing baseball, passing through), adults (supervising, coaching, watching the game, passing through) and teenagers (playing basketball, passing through).

Activities

Children- playing on the playground (tag, hanging from the monkey bars, swinging), playing baseball, walking with parents, socializing/interacting with other children.

Adults- socializing/interacting with children and other adults, supervising children, watching the baseball game, instructing/coaching the players, walking with children, other adults or alone.

Teenagers- playing basketball, socializing/interacting with other teenagers, walking with other teenagers or alone.


Location

Behind Oscar Mayer Elementary School, the park contains a playground, blacktop/gravel area with a basketball hoop, baseball diamond with backstop, open grass (in the outfield of the baseball diamond), a series of sidewalks leading around the perimeters of the park sections (grass, playground and gravel areas), a fence lining the grass section and many trees lining the south, east and west boundaries of the grass section.