A teacher who
aligns with SFSU’s IRW philosophies...
The IRW course at SFSU would assign Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue
to align with a possible course theme on code-switching. As pre-reading,
students will free-write a dialogue about a funny thing that happened at school
first to a close friend and then to their grandparent (or other respected
elder). There would be some class discussion of these free-writes before the
reading is assigned. While reading, students will keep a dialectical journal with
quotes from the essay on one side of a page and their reactions to the passage
on the other side. This may even be a three-way entry that includes links to
previous readings/other author’s ideas as a third column.
In class, the students will create group definitions of “code
switching” based on Amy Tan’s experiences and their own. This definition will
be written on the board. A paper will then be assigned that synthesizes the
student’s personal experiences of code-switching with Amy Tan’s experiences,
grounded by the class definition of the topic.
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