Teaching Standard English; seeing color

Christensen begins her article with a disheartening biography about her experience as a child with dialect and linguistic background.  Her ninth grade teacher wanted to demonstrate for the class the difference that pronunciation can have on someone's perception of another.  The teacher had a rich girl pronounce "lawyer" and then had Christensen, whose father owned a bar, say the same word, as a result the whole class started laughing at the way Christensen spoke.  Her article deals with the importance of respecting students backgrounds to help them overcome their fears.A powerful way to teach Standard English is to teach it as a tool by which students gain power themselves. 

Race and respect; Teaching for social justice

While reading this article teaching for Social Justice I found it very interesting. The students get an opportunity to learn about other student’s families and background, so they can understand each other. I also found it great that he corporate social justice in his class curriculum and I believe that other teachers should try and learn from that.

Ten quick ways; talking multiculture anti racist

It’s a point of view that cuts around all subjects’ areas and addresses the histories of people who have been left out of the curriculum. Its purpose is to help us deal equitably with all the cultural and racial differences that we find today. It’s also a perspective that allows as to get explanation for why things are the way they are in terms of equality issues. About equipping students parents and teachers with the tools need to combat racism and ethnic discrimination. And to find ways to create a society that includes all people equally. Its also has to do with how the school run in terms of who gets to be involved with decisions. It has to do with parents if their voices are heard or not.

LIFE...

“I was nourished on the milk of American culture: I cleaned the dwarves’ house and waited for prince charming to bring me life”. The reason why I picked this little passage was because it’s basically has to do with my past. As little girl growing up with my father and my mother not being there was a really tough time for me. I was only nine yrs old when my father would say “wokie cook my food, wash my clothes and so on” they claimed that’s the African way of bringing u a child but I wasn’t treated like a child, sometimes I come from school so tired instead of doing my home work I will rather go to the market and buy food stuff to cook. Sometimes when I cook it gets really late and I have no time to do my home work. there was a time that I left for school one morning my father came looking for me in the school to come back home to wash the dirty dishes I had no choice but to go home and wash the dishes but when I was done school was over because he kept a telling me to do other things for him was so happy the day my mother called and said the papers are up and she send for me to come to the united states as in how snow white was rescued by her prince charming. This might also affect young adults of these days that also want to look good like other people on TV. Linda Christensen is being very clear in her story because she’s making the contrast between what stories imagine life to be like and her own present life. This story interest me because she is giving example about her own personal life .it’s also important because it shows us why we live the way we live. it also recognizes the influence on who we think ourselves to be. It’s  confusing in a way to say now I realize that I am being influenced by the tv.she also interests me by her writing style .by the way she has all kinds of cartoons and comparing with her life. It’s surprising that am being influenced. parents might disagree because they want their kids to look at the cartoons from an innocent prospective. Movie Company will disagree because she is criticizing their creation and that would affect how much money they make.  My paterner and I both agreed  that the stepmother was very awful.wealso agreed that it was best for her to leave the time that she left. With the seven dwarfs help, it encouraged her to be the best person she could be.

hi this is Delia