Cultural borders

For our unit on cultural borders, I wanted to switch up the format for our essay. For this project, the format of our essays will be a TED Talk script.

Directions: Please review the directions below for this essay, and then answer the two questions at the end of the assignment.

Here are the list of sources we have covered for this unit that you should consider using for this project. Heads up, for the project, you will have to choose three of them to help shape your Talk.

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | “The Danger of a Single Story” (2009, TED)
• Manuel Muñoz | “Leave Your Name at the Border” (The New York Times)
• Omar Sakr | “My First & Second Language” (Meanjin)
• Jose Antonio Vargas | “Defining American” (2017, YouTube)
• Elif Shafak | “The Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought” (TED)
• John McWhorter | “Txting is Killing Language…JK!!” (TED)
• Katelynn Duggins | “To Code Switch or Not to Code Switch? That is the Question.” (TEDx)
• Lera Boroditsky | “How Language Shapes the Way We Think” (TED)
• Matt Thompson | “Five Reasons Why People Code-Switch” (NPR)
• PBS | Sweetheart Dancers
• PBS: Say It Loud | “Should We Keep Eating Soul Food?”
• Mireya S. Vela | “Privilege”
• Alfonzo Cuaron | Roma (2018, Netflix)