- Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Barrientos
Although I am not Latina, I find the Hispanic culture very exciting. I would kill to speak Spanish or have a Spanish/Hispanic hertiage and background. I think Tanya should of kept embracing her hertiage, as well as her language, when she came to America. Like she mentioned America wasn't the same back then but I wouldn't have cared. I would of enjoyed being different than the average person in America. I would have loved having something most did not, that is, being bilingual.
- Learning to Read by Frederick Douglas
I have read something like this story before about a slave who learned to read and write. It spoke about how the white man could take everything away from them, except their education. They could not remove education from someones mind. That is interesting to me. A quote I liked from this reading was, "This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge." I love that quote. I love that someone like this man in such an awful situation can see good. He was able to make things better in spite of his circumstances. This story was sad but inspiring also.
- Mother Tongue by Amy Tan
I found this reading extremely interesting. I love hearing cultural stories like this one. The word for word part in her mothers way of speaking was interesting as well. I could not understand half of it but I found it intriguing. The difference of how she would tell a story was weird. I also found it interesting that the author, Amy, had so many different ways of speaking English. I totally agree on the way English tests are. Although I do not have too many ways of speaking, I feel the same as her. In math, it is easy because there is only one correct answer most of the time. And as she said, on English tests, it is almost like a judgement call. There are so many different opinions on things. It is hard to establish or limit yourself to one 'correct' answer. I always found this difficult.
- Generating Ideas & Text
I've never heard this vocabulary to describe ways of generating ideas and text. I definitely find myself doing some of these though. I find myself looping a lot of the time. I write a group of things, read over it, and begin again bringing along those ideas. I also think I am good at free writing. Journals are something I have always been good at in high school English classes. Teachers give you a topic, and you just write about it. I can write a page or so off of most topics. I also think questioning is a good way of finding your thoughts and opinions. I do not practice this much, but I should. I hate the idea of listing, outlining, and clustering. Listing and outlining are way too organized for my taste. And at the same time, clustering is too unorganized for my taste. Clustering is just that, cluster.
Overall I liked this section of reading. Some of the stories were boring, which is why I did not choose to comment on those.
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