What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)
- Be knowledgeable about the structure and origin of Black English
- Explain general guidelines that both Black and White English follow
- Show formal differences between Black and White English; that just as there is "wrong" way to speak White English, there is also a "wrong" way to speak Black English. Black English in itself is not "wrong" White English
- Find examples of differences in distribution patterns, linguistics, verb tenses and forms, plurality, possessives, and the use of double negatives
What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)
- Compare and contrast the way an idea is stated in Black English and the way the same idea is stated in White English
- Help speakers of White English understand that Black English is equally correct
- Nobody speaks perfectly (in White or Black English) all of the time, that some grammatical practices are dropped when actually applied to conversation
- Many speakers of Black English are bi-dialect and turn off Black English when speaking to people practicing White English
What is being arranged? (What is being put in relation to what?)
- Compare and contrast the difference between "language" and "style"
- Look at language of Black English and how it has evolved over time
What is arrangement? (How are things being put in relation to one another?)
- How Black English and White English are merely different
- Translation from Black English to White English
- Explaining various parts of speech and how/why they're different from Black English to White English
- Statement from Langston Hughes
What is being revised? (What is the writer trying to change (e.g. what ideas, practices, etc.))?
- The idea that speakers of Black English are trying to pull off an uneducated version of White English
- Black English has as many rules to grammar as White English does
- That both Black and White English have changed over time and that very few people obey all grammar rules all of the time
What is revision? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)
- Sentence examples
- Cartoon
- Use of parenthesis and italics
- Story/poem by Langston Hughes
A couple things:
ReplyDelete1) How did the author become knowledgeable about BE? (in your what is invention response)?
2) I think you switched your what is being arranged and what is arrangement responses. What is arrangement refers to types of arrangement patterns (compare/contrast, statement/example, analogy, etc.) What is being arranged are the specific points being structured in the text.