Explain in your own words the point Gee is making in the paragraph that begins \”Now, there are many Discourses connected to schools . . . .\”3. What experience(s) have you had with the \”superficial features of language\” being used as gate-keepers (Gee 11)?4.
Read pages 11 and 12 of Gee (until he begins talking about Vygotsky). Mark up your text: underline or highlight the most important sentences or clauses of each paragraph, look up vocabulary that\’s unfamiliar and jot down definitions in the margins, ask questions, mark passages you don\’t understand with a question mark in the margins, etc.Then answer the following four […]
