For your response, I would like you to respond to a collegue's post. What do you think about what they had to say about Young, Bartholomae and Gee? Now that we have discussed those texts in class, ca

I actually enjoyed reading their ideas because it was odd to read about how students write, speak, and act in different environments;"these different languages." At first I was confused on how "Discourse" and "discourse" was being used because how much it popped up in Young's text, but I now know how it is used and it opened my mind on how everyone acts around me or around other groups. Like when "identity kit"(Gee page 18) was being introduced, I started to notice how we all dressed and acted in different groups. I just thought it was crazy how after reading these texts, how we didn't even realize how much social media, or a work environment, has changed us. And it isn't just that it "changed us," it's that we grew accustomed to it. It's like a habit because we do it everyday. Bartholomae's idea was more understanding to me because he brought out a college freshman's essay on how the student "knew that the university faculty would be reading and evaluating his essay, and so he wrote for them."(Bartholomae page 61) And it's true how we don't even know the language of a professor, yet we write for them. Gees concept was mind blowing just because language was being introduced in not only a voice, but in writing, reading, acting, and looking. And I generally agree that this is how language is supposed to be used. Weren't we all taught to speak up for ourselves? When we had essays to write in high school, it wasn't about opinions, because you were wrong, but how can opinions be wrong? I didn't even realize this until now, after reading and discussing these ideas. "He say don't no student have a right to they own language if that language make them "vulnerable to prejudice."(Young 61) Like really? Young's idea was very similar to Gees, and Bartholomaes, and I have to agree that we should be able to write how we want and how we want to say certain ideas. Language has changed drastically throughout time and experience through every person and I think that just speaks for itself. Communities is what varies on the language. A work environment is different than a school environment or even a home. People may know more than one foreign language and that is a Discourse. I speak spanish in my home and I didn't even notice how I speak or act around certain people in my life and I just think it happened to everyone after reading all these conepts and learning the definition of literacy and all the kinds of discourses, which in my opinion is cool that we opened up to new ideas, just like these authors did once they learned about them too. I think all the different "languages" people speak influence others to "speak" up. For instance, if someone told you about a club that you ended up liking the idea of joining, your "language' in that club would be different than the "language" of the person who was speaking to you. It's like when we meet new people. Our body language is also different when first meeting them than it is weeks after. I also think it's the way social media has "influenced" us. What got my attention was in Gees passage page 19 that, "Control over certain discourses can lead to the acquisition of social goods(money, power, status) in a society." Social media plays a major role in this because many of us "look up" to these people with power and money. We rely on them to speak up and then we go from there. Our language on social media is different than speaking to a parent. I know many of us wouldn't speak to our family the way we speak on social media. Heck I know I wouldn't. But it's just the idea of where we got it from that gets to me. I mean its wild! I mean I didn't get the readings at first. I had to read them a couple of times to actually understand the point of it, but after these ideas from the authors, I have learned so much and I really like how I noticed how we all act and how we all learned these "languages" without even realizing and it's just what makes the class more entertaining.