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Here are some questions and quotes to help you start your journal entry. The basic idea is write about what YOU are thinking about these things so far.


 * ** How does the school and community context in Precious Knowledge apply to school and community contexts in Georgia? **


 * “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)


 * ** How do schools and teacher continue promoting a standard language? **


 * ** What can you do to promote languages other than English in the classroom, as well as non-dominant Englishes? Or should you even try to do this? **


 * "This “fairness as sameness” argument has come to dominate the rhetoric of educational reform – obscuring the link between economic disparities, asymmetrical power relations, and historically racialized schooling practices that gave rise to and sustain deeply rooted inequities (Crosland 2004; Gutiérrez & Jaramillo, forthcoming).We see the fairness-as-sameness principle at work in, for example, English-only and high-stakes assessment practices and in standards-based instruction that is neither situated nor dynamic (Crosland & Gutiérrez 2003)." (Guitierrez, 2006, p. 46)


 * "When did a certain form of grammar become “correct”? Who named the language of the elite as “correct,” as the standard? They did, of course. But why not call it “Upper-class Dominating English” instead of “Standard English”? That authentic naming would reveal, instead of obscure, the politics of power and language in society." (Shor & Freire, 1987, p. 45)" in (in Nieto, 2010, p. 3)