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Session 1: 10/13/22

Report: In our first meeting of the semester We discussed the documentary “Talking Black in America. It was an excellent companion to our book “Talking College.” Many of the themes in the documentary match up with themes we’ll be discussing we’ll be discussing in the book.

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Session 2: 10/27/22

Report: As mentioned above, in this session we worked through an exercise on African American English from the same Wolfram chapter we discussed last time. Once again we checked our linguistic intuitions, which were not often clear. Again, we saw that different varieties of English have different features and rules. In this session and the last, doing the exercises led to interesting discussions about “appropriateness” of language and of how to approach teaching the so-called “standard” language in classrooms, and of code-switching. We once again spent some time discussing how best to incorporate/include linguistic diversity in the classroom. Next time we will jump back into Baker-Bell’s Linguistic Justice, reviewing Chapter 4. For this discussion I would like everyone to pick one of the “Black Language Artifacts” discussed in the chapter and and think about how you can use it in your classroom.

 

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Session 3: 11/17/22: Cancelled due to a scheduling conflict

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Session 4: 12/9/22:

 

 


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