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What questions do you have about languages and cultures in your future classroom?

“So, if you want to really hurt me, talk bad about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity – I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself. Until I can accept as legitimate Chicano Texas Spanish, Tex-Mex, and all the other languages I speak, I cannot accept the legitimacy of myself. Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speaker rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate.” (Anzaldua, 1987)

In Class:

1.) Watch The Dangers of a Single Story.

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Turn and talk to a partner about what single stories regarding minorities and languages we have heard during our lives.

2.) Read aloud the introduction to [|A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices: Power In and Out of Print]by James Gee.

I want you to hear a different story like James Gee did, when he heard the stories of African American girls. What can help us hear the stories of others' differently?

3.) Go over syllabus.



4.) Establish guiding principles of how the semester will work.

5.) Record questions that we have about languages, cultures, educations, and how to teach!