With all of our papers done this year, we participated in active reading during all of work done on the multiple scholars we looked at. With my significant writing paper, we looked at the work of James Gee, June Jordan, and Lisa Delpit.
Included will be captures of the annotations that I used and explanations of them –
This first annotation, is a text to annotation, and in this case a text to text annotation. I compared the early work of Delpit in her comparison to jobs of teachers who teach discourse styles to students, especially those who teach them to students of color and who are poor, and the scenario reminded me plenty of the work of June Jordan, who taught a mainly Black class.
This annotation is a challenging annotation, as when reading the work of June Jordan, she comes up with a rule that if its wrong in standard English, then it’s probably right in Black English, but for me, that raised the question of, would that imply that Black English is constantly incorrect, rather than another dialect? Wouldn’t you want Black English to be considered another dialect rather than always wrong?
In this annotation, I related the idea of a Black woman not getting a job to a mild form of discrimination. To me, if someone was not allowed to work at a certain place just because of the way they spoke, that would seem like obvious discrimination to me.
This is another questioning annotation, as I asked if Black English was still considered an endangered dialect, as it was unclear given this piece of work was written near three decades ago. Also, I asked if that was still true with the rise of AAVE.
