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- Birds of a feather, an interdisciplinary unit: Language Arts wing
- This lesson, which features Mark Twain's “Jim Baker's Blue-jay Yarn,” is part of an interdisciplinary unit on birds that contains math/science and language arts components. In the language arts wing, students will explore dialects and personification through this very entertaining tall tale full of the antics of talking blue-jays.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Janet Fore.
- Dynamic dialect: Horace Kephart and Our Southern Highlanders
- Students will read an excerpt from Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders and explore how language and dialect have changed over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Billie Clemens.
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- Do You Speak American?
- What are American dialects or varieties? Does anyone in America speak correct English? Explore the ways people talk and consider your views and prejudices about how Americans should speak. (Learn more)
- Format: website/lesson plan
- Provided by: PBS
