(note that there's quite a lot of -- sometimes contentious -- discussion among linguists about how we go about assigning the labels "pidgin" and "creole" - who gets to decide what counts as a 'fully-fledged language' and what doesn't, and so on).

Video about Chicano English in Austin, TX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHteyOWdeqg
Video about Hispanic English in the Carolinashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1TL03I2os
Video about Chicano English from DYSA:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PR34EJOZFs
Carmen Fought’s “Talking with Mi Gente”: http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/chicano/
Lilly Gonzalez’s “Viva Spanglish!”: http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/spanglish/viva/
Phillip M. Carter’s “Spanish in the U.S.”: http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/spanglish/usa/
Video clip - bilingual or not https://languageandlife.org/vonc/vonc35.mp4

If you're not familiar with this one, do listen to the voice samples BEFORE looking at the answer key. The answer key has a bit more context too. NEH ins_Bilingual or not_answer key.docx

Download NEH ins_Bilingual or not_answer key.docx

Phil Reading program: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/pri/readingroad/downloadall.html
Curricula that incorporates (some) linguistic diversity:
- 9th grade https://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/filsoncurriculum.php
- 8th grade https://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/vonc.php
- Hawai'i program http://sls.hawaii.edu/pidgin/materialsForEducators.php
A short article by Fought on Chicano English Fought_2010_Chicano English.pdf

Download Fought_2010_Chicano English.pdf

Day 4

A language family tree

Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars Part 1

Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars Part 2

Hear and Read Gullah

Saying names correctly (Uzoamaka Aduba)

Love is Never Silent

Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

Harvard Project Zero Thinking Strategies

Day 5

Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

by Matthew R. Kay

Courageous Conversations about Race

by Glenn E. Singleton

“Identify multicultural children’s books https://diversebookfinder.org/
Primary source recordings of English language dialects and accents https://www.dialectsarchive.com/
Teaira’s doc
Dennis Preston stuff
Yale Grammar Diversity Project~ exploration of syntactic diversity present in the variations of English that North AMericans speak https://ygdp.yale.edu/
Black Linguistic Justice~ Black language demands, black language magazine, black language homework, black language curators http://www.blacklanguagesyllabus.com
Do you speak American~ PBS broadcast journalist Robert MacNeil celebrates American linguistic diversity inclusive of localized dialects, mass media and language, african american english, the effect of Hispanic/Latino immigration, the decline(?) of American English, the influence of California, teaching computers to speak American, the role of women https://www.pbs.org/speak/
MaxPlanckSociety~ Youtube video of an MRI of a person beatboxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4aEc4yPh0
The Language and Life Project ~ NC state documenting dialects, language and cultures of the US. Building awareness and appreciation for linguistic diversity