Regional sayings

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchan@bellsouth.net>]

Several years ago when I was working in the mountains of Virginia, I read
"Cajun Night Before Christmas" (I am from Louisiana) in dialect.  The
students really enjoyed it.  Then I picked up "Hillbilly Night Afore
Christmas" and read it as well.  One of my students told me, "We really do
talk that way, don't we?"

I use both of the stories each year to teach the students about dialect.
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"Reading furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge;
thinking makes what we read ours."
--John Locke
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