In my house we only speak English, it is the only language my Dad and I know. We aren’t the most proper speaking family but we aren’t the worst. When I was growing up i lived in Ohio but I had some family in New Jersey that we went to see all the time, that was the first time I realized that not everyone talks the same and we all don’t say the same words. For example I would say pop and they would laugh and tell me to say soda, I would also say noodles and they would tell me to say pasta. Another example that i’ve come across lately is a girl in one of my classes lives up north and say that my friends and I sound southern. They aren’t big differences but it is cool to see how we are speaking the same language but depending where you are from. I couldn’t imagine being fluent in another language and living in a country where not many speak it, but so many people do it it is amazing.

I actually kind of liked the Pasqualin reading. I really like how he explained his life story and what he was reading and how he related to each book during a certain time in his life and how reading that book got him through that. The main point that Pasqualin was trying to make was to show how much reading meant to him, and he wanted to show just how much it helped him when everything else seemed to go wrong. I can use this to help me with MA2 because it gave me an example about what to think about while im writing it, and to make me think about how reading has impacted me.

In the book we read about two people Branch and Lopez. They grew up completely different but they both kind of had the same goals. Growing up branch from a pretty average white american family, he got things when he needed them and had access to anything he needed. Lopez on the other hand didn’t have it as easy, she grew up less fortunate than branch but still had the same goals as him. She didn’t have a laptop of her own, the only one she had access to was the one at the library and she had to make due with that. Lopez didn’t have the luxury of being white or being a little bit wealthy, she had to work a lot harder than most. There is still racism today, whether we see it all the time or not

While trying to read this reading this weekend I was definitely struggling. I have now learned that I really need to break the reading down and take notes while reading so I actually retain some of what i’m reading. There is nothing that I remember reading that surprised me at all but, it was weird when she was talking about how reading and writing started and the beginning of all of it.

A few things that were surprising about this chapter was the way they are starting to teach us to look at writing and what good writing is. Another surprising thing was the way they taught us what good writing actually is compared to what we thought before. It also taught us how to peer edit and make sure we are helping our peer as best as we can.

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