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Topic |
Activities |
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What is language? Linguistics?
Sociolinguistics? |
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: What is color is this?
- DO: ask study hall and chart by age/gender/art electives. Discuss findings.
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what are some new words that were created during your lifetime?
- VIDEO: Science of studying language
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| 2 |
Non Human Communication |
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what are the ways animals communicate?
- AFD: 221-224
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: What are the differences between human and animal communication?
- AHD: 312-316
- AFD: 224-226
- DO: team game – how many similes and metaphors can you come up with
- VIDEO: Washoe and Koko koko is sad koko kittens
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| 3 |
Characteristics and structure of human language |
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what do you think are the characteristics of human language?
- AFD: 227-230
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what do you find to be hardest about learning a foreign language?
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what would make learning a foreign language easier?
- AFD: 230-233
- AHD:317-318
- VIDEO: tour of American accents
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| 4 |
Language and Thought and Culture |
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what does language have to do with thinking?
- AHD: 318-320
- VIDEO: Language shapes culture
- IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: why would people talking in different ways at different times to different people?
- DO: come up with examples of code switching in your own life
- VIDEO: key and peele 2
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| 5 |
Sociolinguistics |
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| 6 |
Black English Vernacular |
- AHD: 326-328
- DO: Debate – is BEV a language or not
- TS: 10
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| 7 |
Historical Linguistics |
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| 8 |
Bringing it all together |
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| 9 |
Test Prep |
- QUIZLET:
- Finish handout and ask questions
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| 10 |
Test |
- Show me what you understand!
- DO: relax! That theoretical stuff is hard! Play anthropology Pictionary.
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