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Complete the chart below using information from the four assigned texts.

 
  Author/Speaker’s Select a quote from the Explain why quote is Explain how the ideas in
point(s) about language text that feels important important and how it the texts are connected 
(paraphrased in your to you. Use quotation connects to your
words to show your marks and include in-text experiences. 
understanding) citation. 
“No Body Mean Black English is starting  Black English is not  The quote is  
More to Me than to disappear along with exactly a linguistic important and  The ideas in the text are all
You”  (Jordan) black culture. This buffalo; as children, most connects to me and connected because we’ve
vocabulary allows one to of the thirty-five million my experiences all been in situations where
define who the black Afro-Americans living because I also find it circumstances like these
culture is and to here depend on this hard to express myself have affected us in one way
sacrifice part of itself language for our in environments that or another, whether we’ve
without it. discovery of the world. aren’t understanding been discriminated against,
(Jordan, Nobody Mean of my dialect and or an assumption has been
More to Me Than You speech, both made about our character.
And the Future Life of academically and in Language is just a tool
Willie Jordan 1988) new places of needed to operate through
unfamiliarity. our society, and depending
“No Such Thing as There is no proper way  “a young African  It connects to me on where we go, it always
Correct English” to speak, each person American woman was because I’ve been will change.
(Barta) has their own dialect widely misunderstood discriminated against
and should not be and discredited for the before based on how I
judged base on how way she spoke English.” speak, they thought I
they speak was lying simply based
on how I spoke
“3 Ways to Speak English has no correct  “when I mistakenly mix  The quote is
English”  (Lysicott) way to be spoken, them up I feel crazy like important to me
articulation and being I’m cooking in the because I can relate to
“articulate” doesn’t bathroom.” how I’ve felt when I
necessarily mean you’re didn’t properly
speaking correctly. Each pronounce or
person has a message to articulate something. I
convey. felt dumb.
“How Code Code Switching is the art  “When you're attuned  It’s important
Switching of changing your dialect to the phenomenon of because we all at one
Explains the depending on whichever code-switching, you start point have
World” (Demby) setting you find yourself to see it everywhere, experienced it. And
in. and you begin to see the had to use it at one
way race, ethnicity and point
culture plays out all over
the place.”