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I am having the great pleasure of co-teaching a dual language summer enrichment course to 6th-9th graders on the southwest side of Chicago through my masters program @RooseveltU. For the English portion of our teaching, we are reading @djolder's Shadowshaper. 1/
Today's morning meeting question had to do with why students thought the author used both Spanish and English to tell the story. Student responses were varied and thoughtful. "Lots of people use both languages and he wanted it to sound like people really talk." 2/
"He wanted to make a challenge for people who don't speak Spanish." "He wanted to help people understand it even if they don't know a lot of English." "He likes how some words sound better in Spanish." "He wanted people to have to know Spanish to understand." 3/
"He wanted bilingual kids to read it." "Some things only make sense in Spanish." Led to a conversation about why we make our own language choices in our own bilingual contexts. Great literature leads to rich conversations within, through, and beyond the text. #translanguaging 4/
