Quote: “I knew she was ignorant just as soon as she opened her mouth”
I chose this quote from the reading because as soon as I read it I was appalled by the fact that someone would actually say something like this about another human being. It baffles me that people actually think this way. I personally do not know how you can make that type of judgment about someone just because they have an accent. People talk differently all over the world. This does not mean that they are dumb.
Questions:
1. Literacy knowledge refers to concepts that children develop in their early years (preschool) in reading and writing. I have seen young children, who are read to a lot, actually be able to read books through memorization. When I know that the child knows what is coming next in the book, I allow them to finish the sentences. Even though they are not actually reading the words, they are in a way reading the story.
2. I believe that stereotypes interfere with literacy instruction by placing a judgment on a person because of their socio-economic status or where they are from. People believe if a student comes from a low income family or is at high risk that they will not be able to perform like the other students.
3. Schools and teachers contribute to poor literacy instruction by placing these judgments on students and altering their expectations of them.
4. All people seem to connect language with social class in education. Like I said above, the fact that someone speaks a certain way does not always mean that they come from a certain social class. As teachers, it is easy to place students in these categories but we have to remember to allow all students equal opportunity.
5. There are many misconceptions of what language and literacy is. In the article it describes that all students come into school with different experiences and those experiences shape the type of student they become.
6. Educators need to realize that all students are capable of learning and all should be put up to the same expectations. People should stop putting a judgment on a person without allowing them to show what they are capable of.
7. The phrase “Proper English” is heard a lot in an educational setting, but I believe it can mean many different things. Most people think that to use proper English you are to speak perfectly, with proper grammar and not accent. To me, the accent should not matter. As long as the person speaking is using correct grammar they are speaking properly.
Step #1 Quote: As the mountains were denuded, the industrialists portrayed the families they were robbing as ''backward people'' and themselves as the prophets of progress.
This quote stood out most to me in the reading of Tall Tales of Appalachia. I thought the entire article was written well and that the author did a great job of standing up for the people of Appalachia by telling their story. He explains that the people are actually human beings that people in other parts of the country don’t understand because of how they are depicted in television. This particular quote describes best what the industry people did. They robbed the people of Appalachia of their land and thought it was ok. They believed that the people were living wrongly by not pursuing anything in their land. They thought that they were doing great things by industrializing the area and didn’t seem to think anything of taking everything the people of Appalachia had.
I chose to include this picture in my post because it depicts a bug part of what Appalachia was and still is today. Coal mining is one of the many industries in the state of West Virginia.
Citations:
Purcell-Gates, V. (2002). As soon as she opened her mouth. In L. Delpit & J. Dowdy (Eds.), In the Skin that we Speak
O'Brien, J. (May, 10 2003). Tall tales of appalachia. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/10/opinion/tall-tales-of-appalachia.html
What is appalachia. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theallianceforappalachia.org/background/what-appalachia/
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