Group B Teaching Points
Group B
1. We are teaching language discrimination. Discrimination because of what language one speaks or is expected to speak.
2. We are teaching this subject to teach awareness among others.
3. The point is that not all people who speak or look similar are the same but instead have different backgrounds and personalities.
4. We derived our idea from parts of American Born Chinese.
5. Most of the material we will use for subject will be from American Born Chinese. But the concept of language can be found in other texts that have been used like the difference in speech between colored folks and niggers in The Bluest Eye.
6. Our graphic illustration will display personal experiences with language discrimination.
I think you need to focus your teaching objective. Language discrimination is extremely broad. I have no idea what you are going to talk about or do with your audience from this description.
Two things. Since this course is a literature course, the chances are you will need to articulate whatever it is you teach in terms of literature. We want to teach these students that these three novels put together ask us to think about X or Y? Then you show it, and then maybe you ask the participants to actually do the thinking that the novel asks for.
Second thing: I think unless what you want to teach is specifically something about the Outsiders, you will probably want to use more than one text from the class.
Lastly: I think it would probably be best to stop using the word “niggers” to describe the poor black people. I know that through Geraldine Morrison articulates the tension between middle class black people and the poor black people as a tension between “colored people” and “niggers.” But first those are not generally accepted terms outside of The Bluest Eye; if they are used, they need to be in quotations because they only describe what you want them to describe if it’s clear they come from the novel. But also even in the novel that language comes from one character who has a lot of self-hatred and hatred for black people in general. So while yes the words do name a tension, they name that tension from the point of view of someone steeped in hate and self-loathing. I don’t know then that those are the terms you want to adopt as your general way of describing the tension.