Thursday, September 20

Do Now: Write a new CRE Post-It for CRE Post-Its #2. Take out a post-it (or get one from me) and write a CRE (claim, reason, and evidence) on one of the following prompts about Chapter 6:

Starr is not feeling well at all as she moves through the police station. Her mom suggests leaving, but Starr insists on staying. Why? Write a CER.
OR
Write a CER about why you think Starr's parents advised her to always look someone in the eye during a conversation.
OR
Write a CER about how Starr interprets the questions the investigator asks about Khalil being a drug dealer.

Agenda:
1. Do Now
2. Go over Homework
3. Lesson on Code-Switching
4. Code Switching Reflection
5. Read

Materials:
- Writing utensil
- Planner
- Notebook
- Copy of THUG

Homework:

*Read three hours by Monday, September 24

* Quarter 1 Book Review Slip due Monday, October 8
* Quarter 1 Book Review due Friday, October 19
* Read Chapters 7 and 8 for Friday
* Permission Slips due Friday, September 21

Description of Code-Switching from NPR

  

So you're at work one day and you're talking to your colleagues in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when they're doing professional work stuff.Your mom or your friend or your partner calls on the phone and you answer. And without thinking, you start talking to them in an entirely different voice -- still distinctly your voice, but a certain kind of your voice less suited for the office. You drop the g's at the end of your verbs. Your previously undetectable accent -- your easy Southern drawl or your sing-songy Caribbean lilt or your Spanish-inflected vowels or your New Yawker -- is suddenly turned way, way up. You rush your mom or whomever off the phone in some less formal syntax ("Yo, I'mma holler at you later"), hang up and get back to work.Then you look up and you see your co-workers looking at you and wondering who the hell you'd morphed into for the last few minutes. That right there? That's what it means to code-switch.

Write a few sentences in your notebook about what you just heard. How would you define code-switching?