| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Fishman, Andrea R. “Literacy and Cultural Context: A Lesson from the Amish.” Language Arts, 30 Nov. 1986, eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ363335. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | Fishman’s article really elaborates on the Amish culture’s lifestyle including how their education does not stop them from being any less educated. In the Amish culture, they typically only go to school through the eight grade. In the Amish culture household chores are priority over school work as that is what their lives will become after the eight grade. Amish people not only learn standard English, but German as well. This means not only do they learn how to speak it, but are taught how to read it as well. As Fishman mentions, many of the books and even the newspaper(s) in the Fisherman household were written in German. Amish children receive a German written song book as young as the age of imitation meaning the age where they begin to copy their elders whether it be an older sibling or parent. This means they begin reading and speaking a second language at a very young age. Singing not only involves being verbally literate, but being able to read and understand the lyrics. The overall idea of this article is that although the Amish are not taught in a standardized way, they learn to be very literate in many different ways that are just as effective as doing reading and writing homework. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. |
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(This isn’t really a new concept, just one that truly amazes me every time I hear it.) The fact that Amish learn not two but three languages at such young ages, and are practically fluent in all three. (English, German, and Dutch). |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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It relates to the man who talked about the video games and how you can acquire literacy just as much from being surrounded by it as as the Amish are as you can being taught from a standard manual. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Is literacy more acquirable by being surrounded by it and verbally practicing it as it is by writing standard assignments in a k-12 class room structure? |
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