Hello!
A) My name is Alyssa DeAnda and i am 20 years old and this is my third year at Chico State. I was born in Stockton, CA and attended Lincoln High School. I played varsity soccer all four years and now looking back realized that is where i focused primarily a lll of my focus. Although I never actually failed or did horribly in the classes I took in high school, i have recently realized I never put all my effort into my studies. Once I reached college I made a decision that I wanted to do really well in this next chapter of my life. I began my journey at Chico State majoring in Pre Nursing. My grandma had cancer and I thought that I wanted to be in the medical field to assist with people who had cancer. After two years of taking classes towards getting into the nursing program I realized that it was not the path for me, my heart just wasn’t in it like it needed to be if I wanted to get into the program. I changed my major to Liberal studies at the end of my sophomore year, I was really worried about how far it would set me back but realized after being a nanny and volunteering at a preschool my heart lies with working with children, I am so excited to see where this new path will take me, and I am already so happy with the classes that I am now taking.
B) To me being a reader means that you participate in reading a variety of material. It doesn’t mean that you have to read a vast amount of books a month, it can range anywhere from a newspaper article, comic books, twitter, Facebook posts, online articles and the list goes on and on. Another point that i would like to make is that to be a reader you also need to comprehend what you are reading, don’t just read to read understanding what you are reading is also a key point. From my perspective reading come in all different shapes and sizes.
I wish that i could say I do a lot of outside reading but I don’t. Most of my reading comes from buzzfeed articles, twitter, and the occasional romantic novels. it isn’t that i don’t enjoy reading it is just that with a busy schedule i find it hard to get into a book with so many other things going on. I usually save my big readings over summer so that I can fully invest myself in what i am reading.
In Williams article he heavily focused on how each generations idea of what is appropriate literacy changes. Generation after generation our idea of what is correct changes. If you look over the past 20 years the slang has changed widely but that still means it is considered slang we just have put our own spin on it. This article helped me realize that the fear of the next illiterate class is nothing new it has been happening for generations, and that we need not put people down for the way they speak or read but push them to strive to improve.
