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What Did They Say? Dialect in <em>The Color Purple</em>
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9 - 12
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What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.
Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
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5 - 12
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Time Magazine launches its "Tom Swifty" contest today in 1963.
Students have fun with language by creating a special kind of pun with its origin in a literary source.

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