Delpit, Smitherman

DELPIT:

 In her article “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse” Lisa Delpit discusses  literacy educators. She talks about the difficulties the teachers can have while teaching literate discourse styles to all students. Delpit talks about teachers not knowing when students are ready to learn the material or not. She talks about an author that we previously read in class, James Paul Gee. She talks about how she agrees with much that Gee wrote. She also talks about students diversity. She believes that teachers need to treat every student the same. 

SMITHERMAN:

In her article “God Don’t Never Change”: Black English from a Black Perspective Geneva Smiterman attempts to show what English is from black persons perspective. She uses the term Black English to talk about the language. She believes that there is a difference between black and white language. She argues that it is not fair that black people have to learn white language. She believes that black language is just as important as white language. She feels as if society doesn’t accept black language. Smitherman is trying to get the point across that each individual speaks differently and society needs to accept it.

CONNECTIONS: 

I connected this two articles because they both talked about minorities in a way. In the first article talks about not knowing how to deal with students, or not knowing what to teach them, based on their background. The second article is about blacks having to learn white language to be accepted instead of just communicating with black language. 

OPINIONS:

I thought that both of the articles were interesting to read. I liked them because they both dealt with important issues that are going on. The articles made me think more about the topics they were talking about.