My Plan for my MGE

For my Multi-genre Essay I plan on making my project as a teachers’ in-service packet. The topic of this packet is going to be how to teach AAVE speaking students how to write Standard English better. The best way that I can think of doing this is by starting out with a plan as to how to teach AAVE. In this way I am planning on doing a recipe of how to make an AAVE student write SE. This is going to be accomplished almost in the form of a poem. While I am doing this I plan on using some of the sources form my third project. I am currently planning on using the article by Ball and Larder. This is going to be helpful because they talk about how they talk about how it is important for teachers to be able to teach the students right. Also I can touch on the fact that they talk about how teachers need to be able to change their attitudes because the attitudes that they have are very negative. This will help make the recipe stronger because the recipe will show the teachers how to change their attitudes and how this change will help them.
Another genre that I want to do is a worksheet. This is a very logical genre because I am planning on making this for high school teachers and in high school worksheets are used to help students learn better. One of the readings that I plan on using is one from the beginning of the semester. I plan on using Smitherman’s It Bees Dat Way Sometime. I can use this reading because it talks about all of the different rules of AAVE and I will be able to apply this to my worksheet. I really want to make this worksheet to be set up in a way the students have to correct the sentences that are written in AAVE and put them in SE. I think that this is a good example because it is a good way for teachers to help their students understand what they are doing. Also it is a good way to show the difference between SE and AAVE.
A third option that I have thought of doing is news article. For this news article I am thinking of doing an article on how this process has been put into effect in other schools and how it has helped the AAVE speaking students get better at writing in AAVE and also how this has helped SE students write better because they have added the richness into their writing. To make this more effective I plan on using my personal add site from my second project. I analyzed this site to show the different styles of AAVE which add a richness to writing. I am going to talk about how this can help AAVE speakers be better writers. I still have to figure out my 4th genre but I think that this is going to be a good project with lots of information to back it up from my last three projects.