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What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Estimated Time | Three 40- to 50-minute sessions |
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Decatur, Georgia |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Dialect Detectives: Exploring Dialect in Great Expectations
Great Expectations is rich in dialogue and in the dialect of the working class and the poor of Victorian England. What does Dickens reveal about his characters using dialect?
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity | February 9
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944.
After students read the novel The Color Purple, dialect is discussed and students write a short piece of fiction or poetry using the dialect of their peer group.
Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity | December 9
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1848.
Students study how regional dialect is written phonetically by reading a segment of Harris' story, as well as two others, and compare them using the Interactive Venn Diagram.
STRATEGY GUIDES
Grades 3 – 8 | Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you’ll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.