We continued our small-group work on the concept of Linguistic Relativity -- discussing the question posed at the bottom of yesterday's handout. We then discussed as a whole class, adding to our individual papers the examples. A new handout with two different samples of propaganda (blog entries for a nonprofit web site) was provided and students analyzed in their small groups the ways in which the language of each sample might "affect reality." We discussed as a whole class, as students edited their working notes...some AMAZING linguistic analyses from these students!!! We'll wrap up the discussion tomorrow.
