But here what Fish dont get: Standard language ideology insist that minority people will never become an Ivy League English department chair or president of Harvard University if they dont perfect they mastery of standard English.
Points out that most people end up seeing as true, which is that if you can not speak formal english, and have some other language that is in the minority, you will end up not achieving as much as somebody who does speak [perfect formal english.
See, people be mo pluralingual than we wanna recognize. What we need to do is enlarge our perspective about what good writin is and how good writin can look at work, at home, and at school.
Explains, that it would be more beneficial to everyone if we expand our perspective into other languages, to further understand more about each other.
That’s how we understand accents; that’s how we can hear that some people are from a Pol-ish, Spanish, or French language background when they speak English. It’s how we can tell somebody is from the South, from Appalachia, from Chicago or any other regional background. We hear that background in they speech, and it’s often expressed in they writin too. It’s natural (Coleman).
Talks about how people leaning new languages, and showing an accent, shows things about the person, like where they come from, which would help people connect more. What do you think accents can be used for?
f he meant everybody should be thrilled to learn another dialect, then wouldnt everybody be learnin everybody’s dialect?
Suggest that if everybody was more open minded, then maybe they would be able to enjoy other people language, and then be able to learn and understand it.
But dont nobody’s language, dialect, or style make them “vulnerable to preju-dice.” It’sATTITUDES. I
Claims that writing in your own form does not leave you vulnerable, he is basically going against most teachers views. Do you agree with him?
Cultural critic Stanley Fish come talkin bout—in his three-piece New York Times “What Should Colleges Teach?” suit—there only one way to speak and write to get ahead in the world, that writin teachers should “clear [they] mind of the ortho-doxies that have taken hold in the composition world” (“Part 3”). He say dont no student have a rite to they own language if that language make them “vulnerable to prejudice”; that “it may be true that the standard language is [...] a device for protecting the status quo, but that very truth is a reason for teaching it to students”
Talks about how teachers views on students writing in their own form. He is saying that they are basically suggesting that allowing students to write in their own form, would leave them vulnerable, and just end up hurting them later on.
Is because mines was raped away along with my history
Highlights, how in todays world many of the languages from the past, are being teared away from people, who like to enforce a dominant language.
Now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken EnglishBut I’m here to tell you that even “articulate” Americanssound foolish to the British
She compares how, americans think people who speak broken english sound foolish to them, but the same thing happens to americans speaking in front of british. It basically shows, that there is no one way to speak correctly.
The kitchen table is where I did my homework
This shows how some students need to struggle and don't even need have the right environment to study at their best.
The most effective way for colleges to spend money may simply be to give it to students — not just to pay for tuition but also to cover living expenses.
This shows how much effort schools need to put in to make sure that students are financially stable.
They collect data on their students, study that data and use it to remove hurdles for students. They deepen students’ connections to other people on campus, including their classmates
This shows how schools really need to pay attention to what type of students they are receiving. What I mean is like they need to take in account their background.
Students tend to do better when they are following defined academic paths, rather than “aimlessly signing up for classes,”
This shows how students need help from counselors from the school to have a path. For example not all students have someone to lean on because they may be first gen students.
colleges have lower graduation rates when they enroll more lower-income students, more black and Latino students, more men, more older students and more students with low SAT or ACT scores.
This shows just how some people look at diversity. Schools need it to be healthy and to stand out.
For too long, high-school students, parents and guidance counselors have hardly thought about graduation rates when choosing a college. And for a long time on many campuses, administrators and faculty members didn’t even know what their college’s graduation rate was.
This just goes to show how little some schools care about their students. They do not even know what chance they have at graduating.
When we paraphrase, we convey an author’s ideas in our own words, but unlike summary paraphrases are the same length as the original text.
This is helpful to know, because when I paraphrase, it comes out very different from the original text in terms of size.
Condense a text, chapter, or long passage into a paragraph or a sentence.
I know that I am not alone when I say that I over summarize, which is basically just adding way to much summary. I was always told that this is bad, since you paper should't be a summary of the paper. I think being able to make a summary into one sentence is a very helpful tip for me, and for a lot of other people as well.
Tea Paragraph Organization and Development
TEA paragraphs are extremely helpful to me, since they help me keep my paragraphs in a real good smooth flowing structure. I tend to type a lot and writing in tea helps me keep my paragraphs a bit shorter, but much more sweeter.
page 264" When the white man professed ignorance about why the Chinese hates him so" It shows ho0e white Americans live in a ignorance, acting like the innocent ones, yet they are not innocent and are actually at fault.
265 " a skin game was being played" this basically shows how whites are the big winners of the "game" while the black people are the "losers."
Page 266 "four hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging..." He is pretty much saying how black people are a major part of the country, yet white people still treat them beneath them despite all the things they have done for the country.
page 161 " You can hardly show me a black adult in America- or a white one, for that matter- who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black man's role.
This shows how he feels about history books, not showing anything about the knowledge black people know. That he believes that white people made the books specifically to keep out black knowledge, for it to remain unknown to the majority of people.
page 259 " I was so fascinated that I went on- I copied the dictionary's next page"
Here it shows the techniques he used to improve his writing speed, penmanship, and overall knowledge of words and places.
page 257 "I wasn't even functional"
This bit shows how Malcom x grew up frustrated, and beloved he was not able to function, based of that fact that he couldn't express himself due to his bad writing. He even said, that he did not want to write slang, which was the only thing he knew.
I later decided I should envision a reader for thestories I would write. And the reader I decided onwas my mother, because these were stories aboutmothers.
Here it shows that she specifically targeted her book towards mothers. because the stories were about mothers. She probably did this to make a more impactful book to people who would at least appreciate her book, unlike critics who would shoot her down despite how good the book really is.
thoughts.Apart from what any critic had to say about mywriting. I knew I had succeeded where it countedwhen my mother finished reading my book andgave me her verdict: "So easy to read"
Here it shows that despite critics speaking badly about her book, she was still proud of it because her mother was able to understand it easily, despite her limited ability in English.
Istarted writing nonfiction as a freelancer the weekafter I was told by my boss at the time that writingwas my worst skill and I should hone my talentstovrard account management.
Here it shows how she continued to write, despite the fact people denying her writing skills, and trying to shoot her down for even trying to do something that they believe she wasn't good at.
I know this for a fact, because whenI was growing up, my mother's"limited" English limited my percep-tion of her.
Here it shows that because nobody else around her could understand her mothers english, it made her believe that her mother truly had limited english.
Some say theyunderstand eighty to ninety percent.Some say they understand none of it,as if she were speaking pure Chinese,But to me, my mother's English isperfectly clear, perfectly natural. It'smy mother tongue. Her languag
Here it shows that the amount of language understood, maybe different for other people. It really shows that it is a matter of being used to I, like how she could understand her mother perfectly. That is because she was used to her mothers english, not like other people around d her.
Don't judge a book by its coveror someone's intelligence by her English.
Here it shows how she feels about people judging someone only based off their strength in speaking English. Not just English, but anywhere where somebody does not speak the native language fluently.
For me food and certain smells are tied to my identi ty, to my homeland.
Here she talks about how the smell of foods, would give her a sense of being home, and her culture despite being in a foreign country.
When watching Mexican movies, I felt a sense of home-coming as well as alienation. People who were to amount to some-thing didn't go to Mexican movies, or bailes, or tune their radios to bolero, rm,cherita, and corrido music.
Here it shows, how she eased satisfied her longing of her language, even when it was being suppressed all around her.
a country where students in high schools and colleges are encouraged to take French classes because French is considered more "cultured."
Here she goes over the suppression American schools give to Spanish they believe are "uncultured." It really shows how much America wants other languages to be forgotten.
Ahogadas, escupimos el OSCU1'O. Peleando con nueSlra propia sombra el silencio nos sepulra.
Here she talks about the importance of letting your voice be heard. To surpass any obstacles in the way, which may include not knowing the native language.
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?" -RAY GWYN SMITH
Here is a quote that expresses how strongly she feels about her cultures language.
Working her way through school, she eventually became a schoolteacher and then an academic, speaking and writing about feminist, lesbian, and Chi-cana issues and about autobiography.
This part talks about her early life, and how she got up to writing all her many writings, it also gives examples of what her writings were about.
Therefore, the optimal zone for learning is the “Growth Zone,” right between “comfort” and “panic.” Growth happens when learners work through the appropriate level of challenge;
This touches on the idea of the classroom being a a place to break free of your comfort zone, and make it into a brave zone. This way you learn new things, and don't always stick to the same thing, which may not be benefiting you as much.
verybody learns differently. The interactive exercises and approaches in this book are intended to help you find out how you learn best: linguistically, visually, kinesthetically?
This part comes back to recurring idea in class, that everyone has their own learning style. Not everyone may know what it is yet, but that is why in class all learning styles are welcomed, to help students find one of their own.
as most of us are lucky enough to be taught basic comprehension in elementary school and don’t give much thought to the act of reading after that, except as a chore for school that it usually becomes around junior high.
This part brings up the idea of learning english at a young age, unfortunately not everyone was raised to have this privilege. Personally I started of school only knowing spanish, and I became frustrated with everyone around me knowing how to read while I struggled.
active learning through the importance of questioning.
This part talks about the importance of being skeptical. It is always important to question things, to make sure they do not hold you back later on. It is always better to ask a question, rather than to say anything and keep your mind in the fog.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like this line, because I think it sums up what most of us are going through in university. Most of us come to learn, and we ending up reading a lot. Then most of us end up working during school, and we will usually end up leaving with a better understanding about life.
Helping each other through Eli Review to peer review, make revision plans, and reviseyour writing in order to grow as writers.
By actively involving you in your learning in the above ways, I am practicing a“pedagogy,” or way of teaching, that will empower you to advocate for yourself, makeintentional and original choices as readers and writers, and get the most out of your experienceat SF State and the culture we collectively create here.