Discourse Community Map

Shared Goals

Students to gain a secondary education from teachers and staff.

Shared Goals

Written Topics

Topics include announcements telling students information they need to know, the requirements of students and teachers, and expectations of students.

Genres

These are letters, emails, phone calls, assemblies, and loud speaker or television announcements.

Genres

Conventions

Students are expected to follow the rules laid down by Mesa High School. The inability to do so will lead to forms of discipline, including suspension or expulsion.

Staff are expected to follow the standards set down for them. The inability to do so will lead to forms of discipline, including being fired.

Language

Language that is used includes:

-BAM: Be atop the mountain

-Zedo: Zedo Ishikawa, a football player, told his family to "tell the boys to carry on. "Carry On" became Mesa High's motto.

-Carry On

-Z legacy

-"Traditions never die"

-Be M.E.S.A.: Mature, Ethical, Safe, and Accountable

Membership

Students enroll in Mesa High School, and employees are hired by Mesa High School or the Mesa Unified District employers.

Shared Goals

The purpose of our chapter is "to unite leaders of Mesa High in order to civically engage students through service, leadership, scholarship, and character".

Written Topics

Topics included service opportunities, Red Cross Blood Drives, and requirements and expectations from members.

Genres

National Honor Society utilizes minutes, memos, budgets, emails with our advisor, and the officers have a group chat.

Conventions

To remain in National Honor Society, members must act appropriately and meet all requirements in place. These requirements are:

-maintain a 3.5 GPA

-participate in at least 10 hours of service

-pay the required dues/fees

Language

-N.H.S.: acronym for National Honor Society

-Inside Jokes:

"Juniors are in charge of donuts": Junior officers "are expected" to bring donuts for all the officers on Blood Drive days.

Membership

To become a member, Mesa High students who were invited to join based on their GPA, fill out an application. They are either admitted or denied by a committee of faculty.

Shared Goals

To grow the basktball skills of players on the team and create a cohesive team unit.

Shared Goals

Written Topics

Topics are practice plans, etiquette, and proper communication with other coaches, refs, and players.

Written Topics

Genres

Plans, calendars, and schedules are a large part of coaching. Other genres include rule books, emails, score books, and phone calls.

Conventions

Coaches are expected to follow all basketball rules and regulations. The inability to do so during games usually results in a technical foul. Coaches are also expected to follow all schools rules set for staff. The inability to do so results in the loss of the position.

Language

Specific language is:

-"full or 30?": A 30 second time out or a minute time out. Coaches are given a certain amount of each.

-T'd: A ref T'd me up. You were given a technical foul from the ref.

-"On the line": Players need to go to the baseline, pronto.

-B.L.O.B. and S.L.O.B.: Base Line Out of Bounds plays and Side Line Out of Bounds plays. Plays used depending on the location of where the ball is being inbounded

Membership

To become a member of the coaching Discourse, one must apply and be intervied before being hired as a basketball coach.

Shared Goals

To fix computers and technology problems in Mesa Unified School District.

Shared Goals

Written Topics

The topics are maintance, rules (for employees and students), and computers being worked on/need to be worked on.

Genres

Genres are online training, dell manuals, telephone calls, and emails.

Genres

Conventions

Rules in place are to be professional to everyone who comes in and with eachother, do not steal equipment or parts, follow proper maintance rules and other regulations in place.

Language

Specific language is:

-re-imgage: the computer is essentially being wiped/reset

-tickets: work orders; our way to track the jobs we need to finish

-enter tickets: the tickets filled out have to be transfered into a website called TrackIt! to keep tabs on what each employee/group/school is doing

-struggling tickets: students enter descriptions about what is wrong with their computer, and their descriptions cause us to laugh a little

-"the WiFi adapter won't adapt to the WiFi"

-ANY IN ALL CAPS

Membership

To be considered, you must previously, or currently, be in a computer class and/or have basic knowledge about computers. Employers will look at application and have a possible interview before being hired.