I practiced using complex sentence with a relative clause that begins with a relative pronoun because I think this is something that I will use a lot in my future writing.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Christensen's Article
Christensen's article is very powerful by getting the reader to
realize and understand how much languages other than English are frowned upon
in society. This problem has been going on ever since colonization and still
continues to be a large problem today. The results of colonization caused
linguistic genocide and these impacts are still affected in families.
Christensen writes, "Parents are frequently forced to choose between
teaching their children in their home language or pushing them to study the
language of the dominant social groups." Parents should be celebrating the
fact that they can teach their children more than one language. The concept of
doing the tea party is a great and impactful idea. When I read about it in the
article, I thought it was weird and wouldn't really be a great
activity, which was not the case when I tried it out for myself. I believe this is an activity that would be
beneficial to students [complex sentence with
a relative clause that begins with a relative pronoun]. When I
started meeting other people in the tea party, I was shocked at how awful
people were treated for speaking their native language. One that stood out to
me was where the person had to wear a necklace with a cow skull on it if they
were caught speaking in their original language. I just could not imagine being
shamed for speaking in my own language. The tea party made me realize how big
of a problem this is in the world. I will definitely be doing this tea party
activity in my classroom when I become a teacher. As a teacher, I want to welcome all different
languages and I want my students to embrace that they can speak them. I think
that English Language Learners will feel very pressured into speaking English
and suppressing their other language. As a teacher I want them to encourage
them to speak both because I do not want them to feel like one language is
better than the other. I am not completely sure about what I want to do my
languages of power and resistance research project on yet. I want to get more
information about it before I decide. However, I think it will be on the topic
of African American English and how that is recognized as improper English and
wrong. I will probably look at how teachers in the classroom try to stop people
from using this language (both spoken and written) and teach them that it is
wrong since it differs from Standard English. A large percentage of our
population, especially from where I am from in Philadelphia, speaks African
American English, so I think it would be fun for me to research more about it.
I think it will be especially really interesting to look at it from this perspective,
since I never had before.
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I like your potential idea that you have for your research project. I feel like you will have a very different view point since you did like in Philadelphia where that style of language is spoken more often vs here on the west side where I personally have not heard that style of English very much. It would be interesting to note the differences between the two sides of the country.
ReplyDeleteI believe that your relative clause is "that" and that your relative pronoun is the students. I think the sentence flows nicely and makes sense where it is in your blog post.
Now this isn't a pattern for this week but when I was reading your blog this sentence just stood out to me as something that was set up really nicely for the use of the dash!
"When I started meeting other people in the tea party--I was shocked at how awful people were treated for speaking their native language"
*I can't get the dashes to solidify in this blog response but we will pretend that they are*
I think that sentence would utilize the dash well because you were shocked and a dash would emphasize that.
You make a good point about parents having to choose between teaching their children their home language or the one that will benefit them most in that society. I feel that this shouldn’t be a decision that families have to make, but due to the fact that children start school at a young age, the first language that they learn should set them up for success in school. It’s a tough issue.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Tea Party was very helpful. I wasn’t too excited about it, but it turned out to work really well. It was very shocking to hear about what happened to people who spoke their native language. It is important to encourage our students to embrace their native language as it is an important part of their identity and should be celebrated.
Your use of the complex sentence with the relative clause was great! It’s hard for me to recognize those sometimes because they’re so common. It fit into your paragraph perfectly. There are several opportunities in your post to use an AAAWWUBBIS sentence, or to point one out. Great post!
You make a good point about parents having to choose between teaching their children their home language or the one that will benefit them most in that society. I feel that this shouldn’t be a decision that families have to make, but due to the fact that children start school at a young age, the first language that they learn should set them up for success in school. It’s a tough issue.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Tea Party was very helpful. I wasn’t too excited about it, but it turned out to work really well. It was very shocking to hear about what happened to people who spoke their native language. It is important to encourage our students to embrace their native language as it is an important part of their identity and should be celebrated.
Your use of the complex sentence with the relative clause was great! It’s hard for me to recognize those sometimes because they’re so common. It fit into your paragraph perfectly. There are several opportunities in your post to use an AAAWWUBBIS sentence, or to point one out. Great post!