Diverse Classroom Curriculum

How can you teach a classroom full of multiple primary Discourses?

I think the best way to teach a group of diverse students and to keep all of them engaged is to do a curriculum based on the main races and backgrounds that make of your classroom. It may not be possible to include every nationality and home discourse but at least hitting five or more of the most prominent ones will make the majority of the class feel included as well as letting the entire class know that it is an open and diverse classroom and that white American standard English is not better than any other forms.

I think that it would be very easy in an English classroom to choose books that are not only written by authors of different backgrounds and ethnicities but also ones who include authentic terms and dialogue in their work. I like the Feccho article showing how students can examine their discourse versus the primary discourse and what their views are in comparison with the collective views of others.

By teaching and preaching awareness in the classroom of how these multiple discourses interact you can teach students to both value their own discourse and see it in play in major works of literature and articles as well as understand how they will fit their needs and experiences and primary discourse into the standard dialect and way of speaking in their larger world.