Lexie Player Lesson Plan #1 10/9/13 Lesson Plan #1 Lesson Plan Topic: Literary Uses of AAL in childrens books

Background to the Lesson: This lesson requires an extensive background knowledge of African American language and culture. This background knowledge that is required can be knowledge found in many of our course readings as well as from other outside sources. In We All Have A Language, the author notes the importance of making sure that the students you are teaching do not lose that rich first language and way of speaking. The idea is to incorporate the students language into the lesson to make it more meaningful. Also you want your student to connect to the lesson on a deeper level, which is why, you want to accommodate those childrens language as well as teach them about Standard English, with this lesson I hope to educate those children that are unaware of the concepts of AAL and hope that they will realize that people that speak differently are not different they just have a culture that is different than the one that they are most familiar with. Concepts to Be Taught: I want the children to see examples of literature that includes AAL I want the children to be see how language is expressed through AAL in different ways this way being a story book. I want the children to understand that there are other ways to speak besides using Standard English. I want the children to understand that other ways of speaking are not wrong and should be accepted.

Rationale: These concepts are very important for the children to learn because I want the children in the classroom to understand and appreciate diversity. Through this lesson the children will learn how to appreciate diversity and about a different culture than their own. . In We All Have A Language, the author notes the importance of making sure that the students you are teaching do not lose that rich first language and way of speaking. You want to accommodate those childrens language as well as teach them about Standard English, with this lesson I hope to educate those children that are unaware of the concepts of AAL and hope that they will realize that people that speak differently are not different they just have a culture that is different than the one that they are most familiar with.

Common Core Standards: Common Core State Standards Initiative: Kindergarten Common Core Literature Standards With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. . With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story

Lexie Player Lesson Plan #1 10/9/13 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

Materials Needed: o Smart board/white board o Markers for White board o Honey Baby Sugar Child, Alice Faye Duncan o She Come Bringing Me That Baby Girl, Eloise Greenfield o Notebook o Pencils o Drawing Paper o Colored pencils/markers Procedures: o Teacher: Welcome boys and girls. I hope you all had an amazing weekend! We have a great week full of fun new things for you guys to learn. The first thing we are going to do is talk about different languages. Do you guys know of any different languages that are spoken in your homes or in other peoples homes? Does anyone speak a different language at home than they speak at school? If so what language would that be? (allow for some wait time for the children to think and then let them answer the question.) o Do people in this classroom all talk the same? Teacher o Is it okay that not everyone in this classroom talks in the exact same way? Teacher Of course it is okay great answer! Not everyone looks the same and everyone does not talk the same either. Today we are going to discuss the different ways of speaking and I have a fun book to share with you guys. Turn on your listening ears so we can get the book started. o Read the children the book, Honey Baby Sugar Child o Ask the children what the words they heard in the book were different than the way that they talk. o Talk about how their moms and dads (people in charge of them etc.) show their love for them. (Some may speak in different ways; love can be shown in all languages) o Then bring out the book She Come Bringing Me That Baby Girl, by Eloise Greenfield o Talk about how it feels to have a new sibling or a new family member. Ask the children how it feels to have a new sibling and then how they felt when they were born. How if they felt the same way this boy did even though he talked and expressed it differently than they did. o Have the children write/draw about the person that loves them or about their family and/or sibling, using AAL and English in their writing. Have them translate the different phrases from AAL to English and from English to AAL.

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List of My Resources: O Leila Jahangiri, D.M.D., M.M.Sc. and Tom Mucciolo, A GUIDE TO BETTER TEACHING: SKILLS, ADVICE, AND EVALUATION FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS http://www.academicleaders.org/aal_newsletter.cfm?nl_id=6&art_id=46 o Andrea Garcia, We All Have A Language o Wolfram, Everyone Has an Accent o Wheeler and Swords: Moving from Correction to Contrast o http://www.noycefdn.org/documents/ecrw/profdev/UnitDesignNarrGr2-5/N2502_SheComeBringing.pdf o http://www.library.illinois.edu/sshel/blog/childlit/archives/2010/12/african_ameri ca_1.html