Annotated Bibliography

Jonsberg, Sara D. " Whats a white teacher to do about black English.

" English Journal Vol 90. No 4. (2001): 51-52. 

This article describes a teacher that had students that understood the difference between Standard English and AAVE.The students recognize that their original way of speaking bring many stereotypes into their writing, so they try and stay clear from using it. Yet the teacher discusses different instances that bringing in their way of spekain will give them a greater audience and more variety.

Whitney, Jessica. "Five Easy Pieces: Steps toward Integrating AAVE into the 
Classroom." English Journal 94 (2005): 64-69. 

This article describes how AAVE is not described very well in the ablility to show people that it is not slang or an inappropriate way of speaking. It shows different ways of bringing it into the classroom and help students add culture and diversity to their writing. Many people are still confused about AAVE and if it is not cleared up, ignorance will always take over our minds on speaking and writing in Standard English. 

Godley, Amanda, Julie Sweetland, Rebecca S. Wheeler, Angela Minnici, and Brian D. "Carpenter Preparing Teachers for Dialectally Diverse Classrooms." Educational Researcher 35.8 (Nov., 2006): 30-37.

This article explains that in teaching teachers we should make it mandatory to prepare teachers to be able to handle AAVE and incorporating it into the classroom. It also describes how teachers and the educators should look to expand on this idea and bring it into the community to let it prosper and give students the variety that AAVE brings to the classroom. 

Wheeler, Rebecca S. "Codeswitching: Tools of language and Culture Transform and Dialectally Diverse Classroom."

Language Arts Vol 81. Iss 6. 2004 470-481.

This article describes African American students that use AAVE in the classroom. It describes that AAVE is structured, varies by circumstance of use, and also distinct from deficiency.