Ms. Fordahl
English 11
25 February 2014
Exploring Borderlands
In this unit, we talked about How to Tame A Wild Tongue, and exploring borderlands. We had some vocab and some small stories. We talked about many cultural like the Mexican and Americans. In the story how to tame a wild tongue we talked about the Chicano and Chicana.
In the video we seen how the contact zones and the borderlands. Think of one and other like the Aztecs and the Mexican. What are borderlands are the region of land by a national border. then it talked about contact zone. What are contact zone an area around a borderland.
In the story of How to Tame a Wild Tongue it talk about Chicano and Chicana are men and
that lived in the United States and was descents of Mexican Americans. Also talk a lot of different language and their language they speak and why they speak it. Universities wanted them to lose their accents and speak English more the they're original language.
Today most people speak a lot of different language like you can have some who speak Spanish, German, English, and French. We have lot of different cultural up her by the Canadian and the down by the Mexican border.
In this chapter we talk about a lot of thing it was vary hard to understand I was kind of confused.
