After having read Bartlett and Holland's work, please respond to the following.

As you are responding/defining terms, please paraphrase and use your own words/sentence patterns; do not simply copy straight from the text. 1. 2. 3. 4. According to the text, how do the authors define an actor? artifact? figured worlds? How do Bartlett and Holland define a literacy practice? What counts as literacy? How does figured worlds come into play concerning actors and artifacts? List three questions you have concerning the content or your understanding of this article.

1. An actor in the text is basically summed up as someone who is figured in a practice as fitting into the social identities and this makes them positioned in the power relations. An artifact is something that is socially constructed or made by human activity that is used as a tool in the process of cultural production. Figured worlds are something that are populated by a certain set of actors who perform a certain range of acts or state changes in a particular situation. 2. A literacy practice is strategically organized statements which give meanings and values to an institution, they are also socially acceptable ways of doing/thinking. Things that count as literacy include but are not limited to literacy events, social interactional aspects of literacy, ideologies, discourses, institutions, and text production/interpretation. 3. I feel that figured worlds come into play because the figured worlds are made up of the actors and artifacts. Without them they wouldn't be "figured worlds." The artifacts and actors work together and that is what make them do certain things eventually forming this figured world. 4. Why was this such a difficult read? Did I actually draw the correct conclusions for the questions? What are some good daily examples of figured worlds?