English 11 · Week 8 · Foundations of the American Voice
Dialect and Identity
How dialect expresses identity and challenges language bias.
- Students will
- Students analyze how dialect conveys identity and challenge language bias.
- SEL skill
- Name pride in your own language and how it shapes your voice
- What it looks like
- Students respect all varieties of language, including their own.
- Content focus
- Dialect and language identity
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing what you feel, think, value, and do well, and understanding how those things guide your choices. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- L.11-12.3: Language, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 3
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.4 Adapting language choices; ELD.PII.11-12.6 Connecting ideas
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Language Development
- Works with: Any text
- Popular books named: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 11, Unit 1: We the People
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 2: The Individual and Society
- myPerspectives English Language Arts Grade 11, Unit 4: Grit and Grandeur
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More self-awareness activities for English 11
- The American Story and My Story Self-awarenessPersonal narrative about where students fit in the American story.
- Transcendentalism and Self Reliance Self-awarenessSelf-reliance and the balance between independence and community.
- The Harlem Renaissance Self-awarenessPoetry of pride, pain, and joy in the Harlem Renaissance.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessReflective letter on growth and goals.
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