"Seeing Color"

Talking Point #9

  4-11-12

“Seeing Color” by Lisa Delpit talks about how kids can be saying a lot of insult to one another by not knowing what they are saying. Kids these days can be like that. A lot of jokes can be an insult to one another but then again it just a joke where kids play around but sometime it can hurt the other person by just one little word. Even I do that sometime without knowing but I apologized after, but some would be like oh well, it’s just a joke but it’s not just a joke. You’re hurting someone feeling. When I read the statement “in one instance a little white child told a little black girl that she looked like chocolate pudding” makes me think like “WOW” just a little kid can think like that. For me if I was there I would have been said that “don’t say that” and tell him to use a nicer word. And at another point I don’t get why the author uses “white” and “black” when they can make up a name instead of calling them by their colors?  

"Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?"

Talking Point #8

4-11-12

“Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?” By Linda Christensen discus about a little 9^th grade girl that couldn’t pronounce the word “lawyer” right. When I read this statement it touches me because I know how she felt. I have been corrected by teachers, friends, and others for 5 years? Just because I didn’t use the right grammar or say one word right. To be honest I get mad and annoyed when people kept correcting me every single time. In my head I always think why can’t they just let it go once and let me correct it by myself? Why? I know they want me to better in the future but it’s really annoying when you have someone correct you every single time. It’s not fun having someone correct every single mistake you make. And I hate it even more if that person ALREADY KNOW what I was TRYING TO SAY and they go on and correct me, its gets me so angry. It’s like learning another language isn’t that easy for me, especially when you start at the age of 10 because your brain already took control of the first language you already learn ever since you were baby. I really don’t get why you have to be perfect with grammar and pronunciation. 

"What Do We Say When We Hear ‘Faggot’?"

Talking Point #7

4-11-12

“what do we say when we hear ‘faggot’” by Leonore Gordon talks about how children calls each other when they don’t even know what the word really mean. I myself experience that situation with my little 7 and 8 years old cousins name John and James. One day John (the 8 years one) was playing his video games and James (his little 7 years old) was bothering him and James kept on talking and so John told him to shut his pie hole and I’m like “what?! What did you just said?!” and his answer was “I told him to shut his mouth” and so I said “do you know what that mean? And where did you hear it from?”. He said that he his friend teach him and I’m like why are you using something you don’t know. I tell them every time not to say anything or do anything if they don’t know what that word or whatever it is mean. I know I can’t always tell them what to say and what not, because I’m not going to be there with them when they hear new words at school or anywhere else, but as long as I got that little quote “don’t say nothing if you don’t know what they mean” in their head and make them think before they start saying word to others that they don’t even know what that word actually mean I’m happy enough that I got to teach my little’s one something.

"Playing With Gender"

Talking Point #6 

3-29-12

“Playing with Gender” by Ann Pelo discus about how a group of teachers getting together talking and bringing out their point of view with their student/children at Hilltop Children’s Center, a full-day childcare program. In this section the main idea is sexism. When they see three 4-years-old boys playing a role as a dad that giving birth and taking care of their children they were carious and wondering why they play that game, but Sam (one of the boys) said that “But dad can’t have babies” and then he pause for a second than he added it that “Than we’re going to be human sea horses!”. So that they can be dads and play both role. One of the teachers (Sandra) was so carious why did these boys play this game? Isn’t there any other game they could play beside this game?”. Than one of the teachers points it out that Sam’s mother just gave birth so this might be a game where Sam can feel comfortable with his newborn. For me I disagree how the boys play the role as giving birth but other than that such as; taking care of their newborns, or being a nurse is nothing wrong with that. Doing all of those things doesn’t have to be in one gender, anybody can take care of theirs newborn. As a children doesn’t matter what gender they are they learned really quick by seeing an adult doing something, once again they are just 4 years old, it’s just a way that children plays around by seeing something that they are carious about.