DW 4b

For one of the genres for my MGE, I'm going to use Group Three, the "School" Writing genre. For the "School" Writing genre, I'm going to make a worksheet for students. Because my main theme for my MGE is the usage of AAVE, the first portion of my worksheet will be a matching section, where students take AAVE words and try to match them with SE words that correlate. For example, students would match the word "Ice" and the word "jewelry." "Ice" in AAVE means expensive jewelry. Another example would be the word "crib" and how it compares to the SE word "home." I would use 15-20 words or so for the students to compare. For the next section, I will have a fill in the blank section where students will use the words from the first section to fill in the blank in complete sentences. For example, "After class, Dwayne and I went back to my ______." In this instance, the student would want to use the word "crib" to complete the sentence. For the final section, I will take the words and make a crossword puzzle that will have clues to help the students decide where each word is placed inside the crossword puzzle. I think that with these three activities, the students will have a good initial grasp on AAVE usage. Between the type of Black Dialect words and their usage in sentences, the reader will be able to understand how AAVE is used.

For my second genre, I'm going to use Group Four - "Personal/Private" Writing. For Group Four, I'm going to use an e-mail exchange between two people. One of the persons will be a Standard English speaker, and the second person will be a African American Vernacular speaker. In the e-mail conversation, the two speakers will talk about a common subject, with each person using two different dialects. The students will each talk about their days and plans that they have in the future. The two friends will have an average conversation that will be able to expand many different subjects. It will show how African American Vernacular English can be used in any context and with any subject matter. By the end of the conversation, the two friends will be able to relate each others dialects and how similar both Standard English and African American Vernacular English are as forms of communication. They realize that though they are different, they are both adequate forms of communicating. They point of this conversation is for the reader to see the similarity between the two different dialects. The reader will be able to see how AAVE is used in comparison to SE in real life conversation.

The point of both of these groups is to show how AAVE is used in common conversation. The point is for the reader to be able to take away how AAVE is actually used in conversation. Not only will the readers be able to see how it is used, but they will also be able to participate in how it is used.