DW4a

This semester has been centered on the fact that AAVE is discriminated against across almost all aspects of life and in many situations. My project 4 will be focused on how AAVE is followed by racism and discrimination, I will give four templates for this project and I will closely relate them to the racism and discrimination associated with AAVE.

The first template I will use is the compare a paper written in AAVE versus a paper written in Standard Enligsh and see how they would be graded and assessed. I will show how the paper written in AAVE will be graded poorly compared to the paper written in AAVE. Research from the last few papers suggests that it will not be hard to find evidence of this unfair grading scale. I will show the grammatical differences between AAVE and Standard English and how the sentence structure is different. AAVE has been shown to be used effectively in academic papers if used slightly and not obviously, such as repetition and talking directly to the audience using “we” and “you”.

My second template will feature a mock Facebook homepage or AIM messaging box and have one person talking in AAVE and the second person not being able to understand it. Previous interviews seen in class will be my evidence for this template. It is well known that many people think less of those who speak AAVE and I will show that in the messages from the second person. The AAVE speaker will be typing to defend his dialect and the other person will be attacking it.

My fourth template will be a collage showing how AAVE speakers are deemed uneducated and unsophisticated. There will be two sides to the collage, one showing the negative views of AAVE and another showing how AAVE is just as sophisticated and acceptable as Standard English. I hope to be able to educate the public about AAVE and how it is just as acceptable and Standard English, debunking the myths about AAVE and the stereotypes surrounding it.

My fourth and final template will be a magazine article that discusses pedagogy and teaching AAVE in the academic environment. My last paper will be the main source of my knowledge for this part of the project. I will primarily use the “Five Steps” I described in my third paper and use this magazine article as a way to educate society and more specifically teachers on how to deal with, accept, discuss, and incorporate AAVE in the classroom.