Second Week of Class

Hi everyone it’s that time again for a new post. Yesterday was the beginning of the second week of class and there were some mistakes made in my previous posts. First off hooray for America there was a mistake made, the average reading level in America isn't the reading level of a fifth grader but it’s the reading level of a seventh grader. I guess that means Americans can put down the Goosebumps books and pick up books like "The Pearl", although 20 % of the population of adults would be left behind because they can only read at a fifth grade level. Reading "The Pearl" would be like reading a bed time story for 15% of the adult population in the United States of America because that 15% are fully literate meaning they read at a college level. Let’s get deeper into understanding what makes a good story. As learned in class the first thing to know is to know your audience as stated in an earlier post most people are lazy and don’t want to use energy to read. So the author has to be concise, sell the story and have one idea per story. Now we have to figure out why people read stories in the first place well here are some reasons we came about in class, first they are easy to remember and easy to understand. Some more reasons are they engage attention, are easy to believe and easy to share. That’s what we learned about class yesterday.