This is the number of Further Oral Activities you need to complete, the best of which will be sent to the folks at the IB.
What is 2?
100
This is the movie we'll be watching as a part of our look at Propaganda and the Politics of Language?
What is "Wag the Dog"
100
These are the three primary reasons why English is THE global language
What are 1) The British Empire, 2) Economic factors and 3) Fa-fa-fa-fashion?
100
Totes, sexy, and "to the max" are examples of Mr. Aquil.li's.
What is an idiolect?
100
This is his son's name, duh, but it has nothing to do with that *#X!!*& vampire. No, the other one.
What is Jasper.
200
These are how many how many aspects there are to the IB learner profile
What is 10?
200
This is author of the book we'll be reading for during the "You Can't Say That in Polite Company" unit.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut
200
Karisimas, sofa, and le weekend are examples of these types of words that one culture borrows and incorporates from another language.
What are loanwords?
200
These are the three influences on language divergence.
What are social, historical and regional reasons?
200
This is what Mr. Bowles' wife teaches.
What is 1st grade?
300
This is the name of the external exam that uses an unseen commentary.
What is Paper 1.
300
This writer grew up in Joplin, Missouri and is known for his poems concerning racism and black pride, and was one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
This term refers to the value of a language.
What is language currency?
300
This is the vocabulary and manner of speech that define and reflect a particular professions that are difficult to understand.
What is jargon?
300
This is the sport Mr. Bowles coaches for an after school activity.
What is Ultimate?
400
These are how many criteria there are for the Written Task assessment.
What is 4?
400
This movie rocketed its sometimes controversial director to stardom and, along with "Malcolm X", is one of his best known works, even after almost 25 films.
What is "Do the Right Thing"?
400
This person was on the cover of the foreign magazine we looked at.
Who is Selena Gomez?
400
This can be done by speakers who speak two dialects of a language or two entirely different languages, going back-and-forth between one to the other depending on whom they are talking to or what they wish to accomplish.
What is code switching?
400
This is the university in Georgia that Mr. Bowles attended to receive his Master of Arts in Teaching.
What is Emory?
500
Literature: texts and contexts, and Literature: critical study come from these two parts of the Language & Literature course.
What are parts 3 & 4?
500
This awesome book by Margaret Atwood was turned into a terrible movie with a great cast (Robert Duvall, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Aidan Quinn)
What is "The Handmaid's Tale"?
500
This is the term for a language spoken by people who do not share a native language, and it is, what English is, for this world we live on.
What is lingua franca
500
These are improvised languages, stripped of grammar, that are invented in order for people to communicate with each other.
What are pidgins?
500
This is what Mr. Bowles is thinking right now.
What is that someone will take a wild guess at this question?