Week 2: Beginning Paper 1

For Monday:

No school Monday, it’s Labor Day!

If you are free on this day, perhaps you will want to attend the Amazon Labor Union’s Labor Day march, in support of Amazon warehouse workers and Starbucks baristas.

For Wednesday:

Texts:

• Read Section 1 and Section 3 in the Rhetorical Devices book. PDF is here. (Two sections sounds like a lot, but it’s actually only about 2.5 pages total)
• Read “Should Writer’s Use They Own English?” by Vershawn Ashante Young
• Read “Contesting Standardized English” by Missy Watson

Writing/Activities:

• Take the New York Times Dialect Quiz. Screenshot your results to refer back to in class.