"It Bees Dat Way Sometime" - Smitherman

What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)

-Discover the different meanings and tenses behind certain words (ex: be, bees, been)

-How these words are being used

-Deciding on context of dialogue to decipher word meanings

-Comparing Africanized and Americanized dialects

What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?

-Learning the lingo and grammar rules of other dialects helps understanding

-Allows others to more effectively communicate and understand one another

What is being arranged? (What is being put in relation to what?)

-Africanized to Americanized dialects

-Future, past, and present tenses for certain words and phrases

-Use of words compared to other simliar words (ex: be, bees, been)

What is arrangement? (How are things being put in relation to one another?)

-General comparative examples

-Usage to grammatical rules

What is being revised? (What is the writer trying to change (e.g. what ideas, practices, etc.))

-The perception of other dialects

-How different grammatical rules are not wrong when used in certain dialects

-Racial prejudices

What is revision? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)

-Specific examples that correlate with word usage

-Sites literary sources (Lonne Elder, play)