Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography


Billings, Andrew. “Beyond the Ebonics Debate: Attitudes about Black and Standard American English.” Journal of Black Studies 36.1 (Sep., 2005): 68-81.

The author describes a specific study that demonstrates the differences between how people judge whites and blacks who speak Standard American English (SAE) and Black English (BE). I think this can be helpful for my paper when discussing African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Godley, Amanda, Julie Sweetland, Rebecca S. Wheeler, Angela Minnici, and Brian D. “Carpenter Preparing Teachers for Dialectally Diverse Classrooms.” Educational Researcher 35.8 (Nov., 2006): 30-37.

This article is about preparing teachers in classrooms that are dialectally diverse. It explores the idea that teacher educators should make it a priority to prepare teachers to develop appropriate responses and methods to teach in diverse atmospheres. The article proposes that teacher educators should look at this difficult issue and expand on it, and that teachers need to recognize that there is diversity in every community and that it can be used as a resource. This source seems like it can be helpful in my paper.

Mantle-Bromley, Corinne, and Ann M. Foster. “Educating for Democracy: The Vital Role of Language Arts Teacher.” The English Journal 94.5 (May, 2005): 70-74.

The author discusses how important literature teachers are when different cultures are incorporated into the classroom. Also the classroom will always be diverse. I’m not sure if this source will be really useful to me but I think I can pull a few facts from the discussion to use in my paper.

Whitney, Jessica. “Five Easy Pieces: Steps Toward Integrating AAVE into the Classroom.” The English Journal 94.5 (May, 2005): 64-69.

The author of this source discusses different reasons that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) should be used in the classroom to help students better learn Standard English. And in my paper I am going to discuss how AAVE is appropriated in classrooms over time. This is a very useful source for my paper.