We Love Our Languages

#LoveOurLanguages

TEACHERS & LEADERS:

This lesson is designed for all ages. Please feel free to go to FILE & MAKE A COPY so you can edit to meet your students’ needs. Please also check out the Speaker Notes section on some of the slides for additional thoughts/suggestions. � Link to blog post (the first in a multi-part series)

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Special thanks to Clara Vaz Bauler for her thoughtful collaboration and her insightful feedback on these pieces. Follow her on Twitter!

Our languages are tied to our family, our heritage, and our identity!

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They are so important.

What languages do you see or hear in your community?

Think about languages you see…

On billboards and signs

In books and posters

Online

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Think about languages you hear…

On TV and on the radio

In the grocery store

Walking down the street

In your home

In your classroom

What languages do you use?

Languages are a super-power. Can you listen, speak, read, write in another language? Do you move, dance, create, live, process, dream, and/or shine in another language?

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Let’s write it down!

What languages do you see or hear in your home or living space?

What languages do your grown-ups use?

What languages did your grown-ups have in the past?

Let’s write them down!

Our languages are valuable and powerful. How do we affirm each other’s languages?

Our languages are valuable and powerful. How do we show linguistic integration?

The more languages we know, the more we can learn and create together.

Have you seen someone’s language been disrespected before?

Describe the situation.

How did it resolve?

Looking back, what do you wish could have happened?

Looking back, what do you wish people understood?

Is there anything you wish you had done differently?

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