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Lessons from Lucy Laney:  African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

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Most people have a single story of mental illness.

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The video wants to raise awareness to the stigma of mental illness and how one can be contributing to it without knowing.

The audience is the people who are on both sides of the scale, the ones who are dealing with it and the ones who are observing it.
Kristen, Mia, Pauline, Victor, Eddie

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-To prove the AAVE language isn't the wrong way to speak English
-Society portrays the language as an identity.
-Society and the misinformed people
Mia, Pauline, Victor, Eddie, Kristen

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-Her story of coming out as a Chicano lesbian and how it affected her life.
-Her audience is the LGBT community and the Chicano community.
Mia, Pauline, Victor, Eddie, Kristen

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-She feels out of place because her culture isn't accepted.
- Overall, a common theme is how society reinforces one's identity and culture.
-She addresses both cultures and communities individually through different languages. (Chicano and white).
Mia, Pauline, Kristen, Victor, Eddie

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Smoke Signals clip, "How to Be a Real Indian"

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Smoke Signals clip, "How to Be a Real Indian"

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Our assignments this week ask us to watch or read the following texts:

Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”

Cherrie Moraga, “You’re Not Really Mexican, Are You?”

“Lucy Laney Elementary: African American Vernacular English”

“5 Young People Share Their Experiences of Mental Illness and Stigma”

1. After reading or watching these texts answer the following question in one post per text (4 posts total).

Identify the main ideas for each text.

What are there common ideas, themes, messages about identity in each text?

Who is the audience? Who is the author speaking to or writing for? How do you know?

List the first names of your participating group members -- if you don't talk, you don't get credit, my friends. :-)

Use the “connecting” button to link the two posts you are connecting.

Make sure that your group padlet has 4 posts.

2. In the next part of this assignment, draw lines of connections between the texts from  Week 3 (Adichie, Smoke Signals, Lee, Bird) (4 posts total).

Add a new post to each video from Week 3 that explains the connection you’re seeing about the discussions of identity there and a discussion of identity in one of Week 4's texts.

List the first names of your participating group members -- if you don't talk, you don't get credit, my friends. :-)

Use the “connecting” button to link the two posts you are connecting.

Make sure that your group padlet has 8 posts.

3. This week, your group will present the 1-2 posts you think are the most insightful (reveal information that other groups might have missed.