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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary contains words that students in Berkeley High's Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) program have identified as part of the cultural and linguistic fabric of spoken English. CAS promotes the investigation of discourses in the communities we encounter-many of which are marginalized. Words come from African American, Chicano, Jewish, and sports cultures, and include era-specific slang from the beatniks, '60s African American Church, movie culture, hip hop, and drug subculture. This is an eye-opening adventure into the way different cultures and communities communicate and take ownership of their language in creative and pragmatic ways.
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Communication Arts & Sciences is a project at Berkeley High whose fundamental enterprise is to bring together teachers, students, and parents to create a learning community that nourishes and develops the whole student, with an emphasis on social justice, media literacy, communications skills, and communication technologies. CAS is built around thematic core curriculum focused on social justice and an experiential pedagogy. CAS is committed to creating a heterogeneous grouping of ethnicities and skill levels, and its goal is to make school more successful, especially for those who have not traditionally done well at Berkeley High.
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"Thanks so much for sending me Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary. I really enjoyed reading the entries and delighted in the choices the kids made. What an absolutely wonderful learning experience. Teachers labor so hard over parts of speech; if they did something like this, it would be so much easier!"- Lisa Delpit, author of Other People's Children and The Skin That We Speak
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- PublisherNorth Atlantic Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1556435207
- ISBN 13 9781556435201
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages44
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