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Originally posted by cash78mere
please don't turn this into an ebonics/linguistic thing. that's not the intention of the post. i have my opinions about that subject, but what i would really like to discuss is HOW to get these kids on the right track when they think "getting their hair did" is proper english.
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1) Keep correcting them. Every time.
2) Have them write the sentence correctly. 100 times (just kidding!)
3) Don't respond to them when they speak incorrectly.
4) Find a similar sentence in a book & show them.
5) Explain to them that rappers are like "actors" and are performing lines that way.
6) Read them a story/have them read Mark Twain's short story called "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" so they can learn how writers use Southern accents and regional vocabulary. Compare it to how rappers write their lyrics now..."But we don't really talk that way!"
7) Tell them that they should learn to speak correctly, because when they get to middle school, their English teachers will be angry with them and say, "Who was your 4th grade teacher!?" And they wouldn't want you to be embarrassed, would they?
Or tell them their high school teachers will ask the same thing. (I really did - when I taught LD students for a few years. And then also, when I taught Intro to Journalism..)