Teacher Resources
Anokye, A. Duku. "A Case of Orality in the Classroom." Clearing House. May/Jun97, v.70:5, p229. This is an article about how oral learning does not occur in urbanclassrooms and why it is important for teachers to include oral learning strategiesinto their classes.
Baker, Houston A. Black Studies Rap and the Academy. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1993. This short text covers the founding of Black Studies in Americancolleges and universities and many influences and investments that went alongwith these academic culture projects.
Baldwin, James. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" NewYork Times (July 29, 1979). An article written by Baldwin while residing inFrance about race and dialect. Advanced Placement or Honors students may havean interest in reading this article for further inquiry and research.
Billings, Andrew C. "Beyond the Ebonics Debate: Attitudes about Black and StandardAmerican English." Journal of Black Studies. V 6:1 September 2005; 68-81. Aresearch study about the effects of racial dialects and their status inAmericansociety.
Gordis, Lisa, M. "Bring Forth the Old Because of the New: Early Americanists andContemporary Culture." Early American Literature. v. 41, n. 2; University ofNorth Carolina Press, 2005. An essay giving an overview of the AmericanAntiquarian Society's conference concerning digital media, communication andthe printed text.
Hamilton, Kendra. "The Dialect Dilemma." Black Issues in Higher Education 22.5 (21April 2005): 34-6. A short article resource for teachers to use as backgroundinformation to base discussion concerning dialect and the African-Americancommunity.
Harrison, Robert D. and Linda K. "The Call from the Mountaintop: Call-Response andthe Oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr." Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SermonicPower of Public Discourse. Ed. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John LouisLucaites. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993; 162-78. A powerfulessay, all teachers of public-speaking should read this informative research. Amust-have in your mind's eye reading.
Hart, Allen, J. and Marian M. Morry. "Nonverbal Behavior, Race, and AttitudeAttributions." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. V 32. University ofIowa: Academic Press, Inc., 1996; 165-179. This article provides a researcherslook at physical communication and its ramifications in African-Americansand White American audiences.
Holmes, David G. Revisiting Racialized Voice: African-American Ethos in Language andLiterature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
Jean-Baptiste, Alfred. Caribbean English and the Literacy Tutor. Toronto: TorontoALFA Centre, 1995. http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/caribb/cover.htm. This manual isavailable online in its entirety and is a wonderful resource for all teachers.
Jackson, Gale. "The Way We Do: A Preliminary Investigation of the African Roots ofAfrican-American Performance." Black Literature Forum Review. V 25:1 Spring1991; 11. This article provides information about African-American cultural oralperformance; it is very short and succinct.
Lee, Carol D. Culture, Literacy, & Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind.New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2007. A scholar's discussion about theteacher and their stake in the re-claiming of multicultural education. This is aneasy to read text that will enlighten many urban teachers.
Lock, Helen. "Building Up From Fragments: The Oral Memory Process in some RecentAfrican-American Written Narratives." College Literature. V. 22:3; October 1995;109. The article discusses memory of the racial self and orality for AfricanAmericans. This can be read by both teachers and students.
PA Department of Education's Academic Standards.http://www.pde.state.pa.us/stateboard_ed/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=76716&statebord_edNav=|5467|&pde_internetNav=|. Information included on this site contains aquick link to the academic standards for each subject discipline.
Patrick, Peter L. "Caribbean Creoles and the Speech Community." Society for CaribbeanLinguistics. http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/papers/CreoSpCom.pdf. XII:St. Lucia; August 1998. Accessed July 2008. A very short research article aboutlinguistics of Caribbean speech.
School District of Philadelphia. Book One. Secondary Education Movement: CoreCurriculum - Literacy. Philadelphia: School Reform Commission, 2003. Aresource book used to assist teachers in formulating lesson plans for Englishclasses in high schools. This gives a vast number of lesson ideas and teachingstrategies.
Sobol, John. Digitopia Blues: Race, Technology, and the American Voice. Canada: BanffCentre Press, 2002. A wonderful resource filled with information about voice,jazz and the use of blues in the African American community. It also ties theinformation to modern digitization practices.
Weiss, Jen. Brave New Voices: The Youth Speaks Guide to Teaching Spoken-wordPoetry. An easy to read text, which contains strategies for teachers of poetrywishing to include spoken word into their classroom settings and their lessons.
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