RE-REVISED LESSON PLAN: Taiki, Cole, Mavis, Danbee, Allison

Our group hopes to study more on the linguistic of American English. We’re focusing specifically on how people may perceive others based on their speech patterns or heavy accents. Both traits could be found from either native or non-native English speakers.

 

Our main objective is to get our audience to see the influence of speech, and what they might subconsciously take away from hearing the spoken words of others. Does the way a person speak imply their ethnicity, thus hinting at their intelligence, eloquence, and personality? In turn, why are these traits then racially mocked?

 

c)list of your materials

  • Questionnaire composed of quotes found in various stories: The Bluest Eye, Frankenstein, A Lesson Before Dying, American Born Chinese
  • Audio clips of different films; Birth of Nation, Breakfast at Tiffany, White Chicks
  • Flash cards/Bilingual People
  • Follow up question sheet
  • Laptop
  • Videos from Buzzfeed focusing on racial stereotypes
  • Camera
  • Recording device
  • Comic for visual aid

 

 

  1. Our meeting will start off with the questionnaire made by Allison. Our audience will have to match up the question with which race they think said it (White, Black, Chinese,…other)
  1. After revealing the answers, we will have an open discuss based on the follow up questions also made
  1. Recording of the conversations will be made by Mavis via phone, and Taiki will take pictures on his phone
  1. To further encourage the idea behind our lesson, Danbee will show the videos she found from Buzzfeed with a laptop (including audio from films)
  1. A comic made by Allison and redrew by Mavis will circulate in time with the videos
  1. Cole will take notes crucial to our paper
  1. Every group member is expected to participate during the open discussion
  1. Everyone will interact teaching a simple phrase in a foreign language