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Fall 2022

February 3, 2023 / Leave a comment

Session 1: 10/13/22

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

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Session 2: 10/27/22

Report: In this session we discussed chapter 1 in “Talking College.” We enjoyed that the authors provided extended introductions of themselves in the “Who we are” section of the chapter. We discussed how as teachers we should share more of our experiences with students, narrowing the differences between us. We also liked the linguistic autobiography assignment which has some similarities to an educational autobiography tool that some of us are working with. Also useful was the discussion of terminology in chapter 1, which was clearly laid out. We also liked that the primary audience for the book is students, and that students voices are heavily included, sharing their experiences. We left looking forward to chapter 2 and the rest of the book!

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

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Session 4: 12/9/22:

Report: Our final meeting this fall cam at the end of a very busy semester. We discussed chapter 2 this time, but only had time to scratch the surface of what is a rich chapter. In the spring we will return to Chapter 2 with fresh eyes and energy from a new semester. I hope you’ll join us!

February 3, 2023 / Leave a comment

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: