Sunday, January 25, 2009

IAR "It bees that way sometimes"

What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)

  • Discuss the differences between "Black English" an "White/or/American English"
  • Discuss how the Black language could possibly face "extinction" in the future
  • Give examples on ways Black English is used and the same for White English


What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?

  • Discuss the way certain statements are made in Black English and the way they would be properly stated in White English.
  • Specifies the ways the word "be", "been" and other simple words are expressed through the two languages.
  • The way the "th" is sometimes omitted an replaced with a "d" an how it'll always be in certain words such as "thought" and "thing"
  • Discuss and give examples of the ways that different people speak such as the Mayor and the choir director.
  • Discuss the difference on how the words are/ may be interpreted


What is being arranged? (What is being put in relation to what?)

  • Black English compared to white
  • Black English in the twentieth century to current days
  • Differences in language an "style" of language
  • From grammer to the way words are pronounced
  • The way the pattern works in short poems


What is arrangement? (How are things being put in relation to one another?)
analogy/ or statement/example to application

  • things being compared and also contrasted
  • examples given
  • going from a general aspect to a more specific aspect


What is being revised? (What is the writer trying to change (e.g. what ideas, practices, etc.))?

  • The readers outlook on Black english
  • The thought the Black english has no form or any kind of rules to follow
  • Changing the thought of Black english not being a language and proving that it's just the same as White english


What is revision? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)

  • Use of citations
  • Use of lifetime examples (real people)
  • Use of poems for examples
  • Use of Black english styles and white

1 comment:

  1. Good start. When talking about what is invention, what did Smitherman have to do before she discussed the aspects of Black English?

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