Extra Credit

First off, I want to say that the assignment of drawing your "dream home" is very imaginative. I would like to think that if I were given that assignment, and if I could draw, my house would be just like the authors.
The author talked about how imaginative reading is and how it is truly a place of the readers own imagination and where they can escape. As an avid reader myself, I believe how that cannot be more true. I like home the author said that this project can connect people with different backgrounds. That people with different ethnicities and race and levels of poverty can have the same dreams.  The author points out how if the students were told to think about the surroundings of their dream house. I believe that too be true because someones childhood would effect how they dream to be as an adult. For example, I live in a Miami suburb but my dream house would be located in the mountains or in New York City (two polar opposites). I think that would happen because I have gotten very bored in my childhood area that I want places that seem exotic to me and places where I can explore and the mountains and New York City both have that option for me.
I believe that race, gender, sexuality, and class all play major roles in everyday writing. These facts can change not only the topic of the writing, but can also change the writing instrument and surface. The conversations are very different between an  african-american, gay male that came from a background of poverty compared to an upperclass white, straight female (and other variations of both, of course). Everybody has a different story that leaks into their everyday life and I do not see why it would not seep into their everyday writing.