This article is from the PBS website called “Do You Speak American?” - It deals with all kinds of language issues - many of which we’re dealing with in class in a lot of our poetry. The article you’ll be reading today deals with people “borrowing” language from other ethnic groups and how that has affected our language as a whole.
Four parts to this assignment:
1. Read the article by copying this link into Internet Explorer: http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prestige/crossing/
2. Answer the questions Language As Prestige (type them) and print. Show this to me, then put it in your notebook.
3. And finally, write a paragraph explaining your feelings on/ impression of the information in the article. Use two direct quotations (make sure to use quotation marks and put (1) after the quote to signify the page number.)
4. Post your paragraph to my blog.
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