1. T ODAY 1. Ed Essay checklist 2. Language Unit (Your English Persona) 3. NPR Listening 4. Time chart

2. HANDOUT: PART 1. WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU WOULD WORK ON IN YOUR ESSAY IF YOU HAVE MORE TIME. (USE THE QUESTIONS ON THE HANDOUT FOR IDEAS.) Clear thesis? Clear main ideas? Have you supported your ideas? Have you developed your ideas? Have you incorporated any sources from class? How did you use the support? ….Organization? ….Grammar?

3. √ LAST CLASS WE STARTED TO DISCUSS: How well do you think your English fits your personal identity? Why? Why not? How does language change you? What is your relationship with language? Language learning? English? Let’s continue…. Discuss the first side of the Language Ego HANDOUT. Whole class—small groups—whole class….. But first, some goals and concepts…..

4. √ G OALS Be able to better understand one’s own language ego. ==Own your language ==Accept one’s own language ==Identify potential barriers to change Language goals: Comparing and contrasting Expressing feelings, behaviors, attitudes, motivation, barriers Describing personality characteristics Generalizing

5. CONCEPTS: Ego— a. psychology : a part of the mind that senses and adapts to the real world; b. the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world Language ego —how you see yourself when you speak a language Q1/ Q3 Personality- - the complex of characteristics that distinguishes an individual or a nation or group; especially : the totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics Q2 Persona : (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; a public personality (face); Language persona —the person you present to the world when you speak a specific language Q3 Temperament -the usual attitude, mood, or behavior of a person or animal An artistic temperament A nervous temperament (your normal emotional response)

6. √ EX: A pleasant personality; open; closed; friendly; kind; Easy-going; Difficult; demanding; cautious; humble; etc. EX: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples- of-personality-traits.htmlhttp://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples- of-personality-traits.html

7. E NGLISH I DENTITY H ANDOUT : L ANGUAGE E GO. Discuss. Rules: 1. **When you turn the paper over, please let me know!!!!! 2. If you have a vocabulary question—call me, your personal dictionary, over. “Mugah mugah aunche”

8. REPORT ON L ANGUAGE EGO HANDOUT Analyze whether learning a new language has changed your personality (or not)…(Armenian saying.) Compare you (and your classmates) L1 and L2 persona…. Do you think the persona you give in your L1 is the “authentic or real you ”? Why or why not? Does the L2 allow you to be a way your L1 does not allow? We’ve been talking about how the context in which we grow up (our society, our education system, etc.) influences the people we become. EX. Being aware of standing proximity between men and women in Muslim countries Synthesize??? In terms of global English, what does learning a second language mean globally?????

9. NPR

10. In Groups: Answer first three questions. Read questions in C. Second listening

11. Casting directors His audition Aspiring actors hoping to land a role. Maybe they are practicing their lines. Waiting to audition…..

12. "P LAYING THE A MERICAN " http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto ryId=4716864 June 24, 2005 A class called "Playing the American" at UCLA aims to help actors from abroad to capture the American type. Mastering the accent is a challenge in itself. The teacher of the class and two students discuss what it means to "act American."