Author: Ashley

Here is the link for my project “250 Words Is Killing My Story” on YouTube. Thanks for a great semester! (Feel free to share with anyone) Read more →

(Bear with me on this long rant but I really wanted to explain how I came to my idea and the thought that went into it. If you don’t wanna read it, feel free to skip to the second paragraph where my project idea is explained.) I have a love/hate relationship with open-ended projects like this. The freedom to organize and… Read more →

ALRIGHT SO I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE LIKE FRIDAY NIGHT and I’m kind of sick of just writing a paragraph SO instead of typing, I have decided to spice things up! I have made for you a flowchart (ta daa) and I am quite proud of it. I’ll attach a link at the bottom in case the picture won’t load… Read more →

So I was literally reading to hate this blog post because I could not think of anything in the past year that would qualify as multi-modal. To be honest, I was ready to just skip this post all together. I have never created a film, performed a song, done poetry, or written a blog and used images. After stressing over… Read more →

( •_•) So it took me a looooonnnnnggggg time to think about how I wanted to go about this paper (and to be honest, I got pretty frustrated thinking about it yesterday and gave up). I thought about going the easy route and defaulting to a “spew back information” paper but I just was not happy with that choice. I’ve done… Read more →

I’ve been in higher education for four years now. I was roughly 18 when I started going to De Anza College in Cupertino. As community colleges go, it wasn’t the worst and it’s considered the second best after Foothill College in Los Altos Hills (at least in my general area). I chose english as a major because I considered it… Read more →

So I think its important to start off with I actually really dislike writing. And just to explain myself, it’s because writing has become (for me) a fixed practice also I like drawing better… But so many teachers are rigid about how I should write and what I should write, its become something that doesn’t represent me anymore. Most of my… Read more →

Hi! My name is Ashley. I am 21 years old and a junior transfer from San Jose, California. I am an English major and I want to become a foreign English teacher. From this class, I am hoping to take away ways to teach composition and tips n tricks to help my students learn English. I want to find different… Read more →