Did you personally relate to any of the readings? How?
I don't really personally relate to the readings, because most of the readings were on language and struggles at home with English. Since I am adopted my parents first language is English. If my parents first language was Chinese I think I could relate to Amy tang.
Did you enjoy any authors more than others? Why?
"I enjoyed Learning to read" Malcolm X and Amy Tan more than "From Silence to Words:Writing as a struggle" because I found them more interesting about language and they were easier to understand than Lu's. Amy Tan and Malcolm X's were straight forward and was easier to follow.
How did the video add to the conversation?
The video mentioned "broken english" just like Amy Tang's writing that relate to identity issues
Lu brings up discrimination due to language and the video touches on that also.
Video Notes:
"language is the foundation of society"
"how you talk shows where your from, accents"
"wrong language in different places"
"Began in the South , sometimes called African American English or black English "
"school has its own culture (raise their hands, speak differently)"
"when children are corrected all the time they tend to shut down and let down"
"ebonics-dilects?"
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