February 10
happy black History month!
​It's the 100-year anniversary!

I. Opening Annoucements​​
  • Remember to email the editor link to your hype presentation on the Wednesday before at noon! Also note that there is no make-up for the Hype presentations.
  • Remember that your Hype presentation needs a visual package that matches your argument/rhetor as well as animations and transitions. 
  • If you use Canva, make sure you use Canva PREMIUM (there are NO ads). You can create an account using your TCU email. Sign in with SSO when prompted and a window will appear reading “WELCOME TCU STUDENT.” If there is a problem and you don’t see that you can contact IT and they can walk you thru it. [Thank you, Melinda, for these directions.]
II. Google Slides Demo (In-Class)
On your slide, do all of the following:
  1. A background image or pattern (it must be horizontal and not skewed in a way that distorts)
  2. An academic-styled title in a text box that is filled & has a border
  3. An image that is weblinked to its source & has a border
  4. A video or a song
  5. Transition on the slide
  6. Animation of each item on the slide
  7. Email to [email protected] with EDITOR status
III. Introduction to Black Language (BL)
A Chronology of Once Popular Names: Black Dialect -- Black English -- Black Vernacular 
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) -- African American Vernacular (AAV) 
Ebonics -- African American English (AAE) -- African American Language (AAL)
. . . We Say Black Language (BL) 

Six basics of black grammar/
​Black LanguaGe (BL)

Hold on to the worksheet provided in class which gives more information on BL Phonology, Morphosyntax, Verbal Syntax, and Aspect.
1. HABITUAL BE
​She be trippin.
"Despite the stereotypes, people who use this feature do not use it in all sentences with the be verb, and they do not suffer from a lack of ability to conjugate be. Rather, uninflected be is used only to refer to habitual or regularly occurring actions...Note that Standard Mainstream English does not have a special form of the be verb to indicate habituality. It uses an adverb or adverbial phrase with the verb to indicate this meaning (We usually play basketball; She often works late)."  click here for source
3. 3RD-PERSON SINGULAR-S DELETION
He stay in my DMs.
Another common feature of BL "is omitting the –s with verbs following a third person singular subject (compare Mainstream English I jump, you jump, we jump, they jump--but in BL, it is she jump vs she jumps)." click here for source
5. REMOTE PAST MARKER
I been went to the store/ I BIN went to the store.
"This (stressed been) communicates that not only is something the case, and not only is it completed (ie. perfective aspect), but it has been for a long time. example: "he been got a job." meaning: he got a job a long time ago."  It is about EMPHASIS. click here for source
2. COPULA ABSENCE
She stupid as hell.
BL "speakers will occasionally omit any form of the verb to be in sentences that require a form of to be in Standard English. Example sentences would include She going or They hungry. But am and past tense was and were are never left out; thus you would never hear sentences like *I going or *They hungry last night. (The asterisk that precedes these sentences is a convention that linguists use to mark forms that would not be characteristic of a particular speech variety.)" click here for source
4. DOUBLE NEGATIVE
He don't care nuthin about her.
Also common in BL "is what is called double negatives, as in We don’t know nothing bout nobody." This is common in Shakespeare and the like but is used especially for emphasis in Black Language. click here for source
6. PRETERITE HAD
She had told me that you lost internet in the storm. 
"This refers to grammatical constructions that do not use had, but use the simple past: "he had went to work and then he had called his client." The meaning here is: he went to work and then he called his client." This is almost ALWAYS USED IN NARRATIVE, to foreshadow an upcoming story. click here for source
Who is eating cookies?  
Who be eating cookies?
(click on image for the famous study)

Iv.Closing with Black ASL . . . 
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