In 1996, the Oakland School Board put forth a plan to legitimize "Ebonics" as a language and use it as a way to communicate with their students. ... Ebonics was coined by Robert Williams in 1973 to describe a rich mixture of grammar, syntax, phonology, phonetics, morphology and semantics spoken by people of African descent, or black folks. ... This is our "speak" so to say, and our mother tongue comes out in this so-called "language." Ebonics to me is not so much a language but rather a history, which none of us can deny. ... Language branches off of power in the sense of saying that the d...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Richard Rodriguez, an Indian American writer and Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and a human rights activist have been smiled upon because of their interest in books and learning. ... English has limited my possibilities with my native language. ... I'd like to learn my language more but the fact that its not a written language makes it difficult. ... If an individual speaks two languages they might lose the language they grew up with maybe even their culture. ... For Frederick Douglass, an African American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman the more he read the...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The child that I am tutoring is African American and lives in the inner city. ... The language is far above her. ... "I tell them that their language and cultural style is unique and wonderful but that there is a political power game that is also being played, and if they want to be in on that game there are certain games that they too must play." ... My student should have been taught a long time ago that her language was unacceptable for use on English essays. She needs to know that her own "native" language should not be lost, but that there is a way to write and speak formally. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

My family would learn multiple languages and stay in multiple countries in Africa for four years before finally escaping to an over illustrated "promise land." ... Other problems that lay in her way of living a moderately normal life were her troubles with the English language and still having to maintain good enough grades to graduate high school. ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Some of the aspects are all day kindergarten, beginners reading program which combine a phonic and whole language approach, reading groups which are constantly assessed by teachers, one-on-one tutoring, and co-operative projects in language arts and math. ... Magnet schools where started in America to make the schools in neighborhoods that are predominantly African American so good that white students would enroll by chose thus upping the moral of the socially disadvantaged African American, and giving them a greater chance for succeeding. ...

• Word Count: 1656
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Nearly 25% of all children, and 50% of all African American children in the United States are living in poverty, meanwhile poverty continues to rise, so that our schools will be serving over 30% more poor children in the year 2020. ... The school has language offered, and computers and arts. ... Without language, arts, theater, or even computers, it's just boring. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

With the help of Anne Sullivan her teacher, Helen Keller learned to communicate through sign language. ... The first settlers in America were black, from Africa, becoming enslaved when Europeans came and took over. ...

• Word Count: 1184
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School