Do Now: How many different ways do you know to say “Hi”?
Homework: Go to zellerenglish.blogspot.com and catch up on missing homework assignments.
Inquiry: What does it mean for language to be a socially constructed process? Who gets to decide what language is right and wrong? How does the social construction of literacy affect our experience in the world?
Objective: SWBAT understand and explain what it means for language to be a socially constructed process and relate this understanding to The Pearl. Students will construct their own words.
Agenda:
- Do Now.
- NPR: How Language Evolved
- In partners, construct your own word evolution with a picture of your word. Try to construct a new word!
- Define Language as a socially constructed process.
- Read The Pearl.
- Discussion: How is literacy and language talked about in this story?
- Complete Reading Logs for finished chapter.
