Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Demographics
  4. The Unit
  5. Content
  6. 1. The problem
  7. Strategies
  8. Appendix Implementing District Standards/Suggested Instructional Sequence
  9. Bibliography
  10. Endnotes

You Ain’t Gotta Write Like You Speak: Talking White, While Livin’ Brown

Debra Denise Jenkins

Published September 2019

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Brantley, Jessica. Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay seminar, Yale National

Initiative, New Haven, July 8-16, 2019.

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Brennan, William. "Julie Washington's Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American

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Dawkins John. "Linguistics in the Elementary Grades." JSTOR.

Dumitrescu, Domnita. "English-Spanish Code-switching in Literary Texts: Is It Still Spanglish as

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Goldthwaite, Melissa A., Joseph Bizup, John C. Brereton, Anne E. Fernald, and Linda H.

Peterson. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton &

Company, 2012. Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read,” pages 346-349.

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., Joseph Bizup, John C. Brereton, Anne E. Fernald, and Linda H.

Peterson. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton &

Company, 2012. Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” pages 411-419.

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., Joseph Bizup, John C. Brereton, Anne E. Fernald, and Linda H.

Peterson. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton &

Company, 2012. Maxine Hong Kingston, “Tongue Tied,” pages 401-404.

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., Joseph Bizup, John C. Brereton, Anne E. Fernald, and Linda H.

Peterson. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton &

Company, 2012. Richard Rodriguez, “Aria,” pages 405-410.

News Public Radio. "Code Switching: Are We All Guilty." Advertisement. Heard on Tell Me

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Turner Kristen Hawley. "Flipping the Switch: Code-Switching from Text Speak to Standard

English." English Journal98, no. 5 (2009): 60-65.

Young Vershawn Ashanti. "Nah, We Straight": An Argument Against Code

Switching." JSTOR, 1-2, 29, no. 1 (2009): 49-83.

Zinsser, William. On Writing Well. Harper Paperbacks, 2016.

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