Thursday

Now AAL (African American Language) English vocab, grammatically African No verb "to be"
 * Ebonics**

don't treat as wrong, treat as a different language

AAL_speakers are best understood as Standard English Learners Both ESL and SEL must learn the vocab and structures of standard English to move on education

Mother Tongue--Amy Tam

Easy to memorize vocabulary, harder to change grammer [|Voices of the Self]

Directly show the difference between Ebonics and Standard English

describe as translation instead of correction

Lisa Delpit [|Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom]

First time read aloud just listen second time do + ,--,? Then the author sits quietly while these observations are given to here and she takes notes on what is said
 * Misc. Strategies: -- groups of 3 (good for focusing on language, organizations and ?'s)**