{"id":159,"date":"2019-12-13T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/?p=159"},"modified":"2019-12-30T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:26:13","slug":"that-time-i-spilt-the-tea-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/2019\/12\/13\/that-time-i-spilt-the-tea-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time I \u2018Spilt the Tea\u2019 in Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gen-Z Decoder<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tea- gossip<\/span><\/p>\n

Spill the tea- sharing gossip<\/span><\/p>\n

Wig- freak out<\/span><\/p>\n

Shade- insult<\/span><\/p>\n

Triggered- angered<\/span><\/p>\n

Get the bread- let\u2019s do it<\/span><\/p>\n

Full send- work hard<\/span><\/p>\n

Low key- secretly<\/span><\/p>\n

High key- opposite of low key<\/span><\/p>\n

Woke- to become aware<\/span><\/p>\n

Flex- show-off<\/span><\/p>\n

Real talk- to be honest<\/span><\/p>\n

Extra- excessive<\/span><\/p>\n

Lit- Good\/ cool<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m about to <\/span>spill the tea <\/span><\/i>on a real moment that happened in a senior English class last year. Before you <\/span>wig<\/span><\/i>, I only <\/span>keep it 100<\/span><\/i> in this post, so there\u2019ll be no <\/span>shade<\/span><\/i> in this story, which means that no one should get <\/span>triggered<\/span><\/i>. If you\u2019re up for it, let\u2019s <\/span>get the bread!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In an AP English Literature and Composition class last year, wherein I was teaching the students how to make <\/span>fire<\/span><\/i> annotations, I noticed one of my students going <\/span>full send<\/span><\/i> with her notes. Upon closer examination of her writing, I noticed three letters in big capitals: <\/span>TEA<\/span><\/i>. I immediately showed my age and was <\/span>low key<\/span><\/i> embarrassed of how out of touch I was with Gen-Z lingo. <\/span>High key<\/span><\/i>: I had no idea what <\/span>tea<\/span><\/i> meant and had to be <\/span>woke<\/span><\/i> by my students who informed me of its definition. Collectively, my students proceeded to <\/span>flex <\/span><\/i>on me by sharing other variants of the English language to which I was not privy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Real talk<\/span><\/i> for a second; I understand that this post has been super <\/span>extra <\/span><\/i>thus far,<\/span>\u00a0so I\u2019ll leave the <\/span>lit<\/span><\/i> phrasings to the students from here on out.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was a truly memorable moment in my teaching career for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was a moment wherein I was the one being taught language in my own English classroom. The students were eager to share their knowledge with me and quickly become the experts in the room. Secondly, that one student was genuinely completing the task at hand and annotated her text in a way that made sense to her. I always tell my students that there is no wrong way to annotate a text. I aim to teach them different styles of annotations that can help them make meaning from a work, but my messaging is consistent: the annotations should make sense to you. They are <\/span>your<\/span><\/i> annotations after all!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most notably, though, that moment stood out to me because the student was applying her decoding of modern vernacular and synthesizing it with her understanding of a 19th-century text. At that point in the story, the character was, in fact, <\/span>spilling the tea<\/span><\/i>! As such, she was able to take a text from the early 1800s and contextualize meaning in a way that was relevant to her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

To this day, I share this example with my students so that they know they have the freedom to craft their annotations to fit them as learners. The value of analysis doesn\u2019t come from its rigidity or \u201ccorrect reading\u201d. Rather, that value is had when students engage with texts in ways that make sense to their lives and allows them, as learners, to make their own meaning. As an educator, I think that\u2019s some <\/span>tea<\/span><\/i> worth spilling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow and tweet @Bjeblack to tell me about your classroom tea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gen-Z Decoder Tea- gossip Spill the tea- sharing gossip Wig- freak out Shade- insult Triggered- angered Get the bread- let\u2019s do it Full send- work hard Low key- secretly High key- opposite of low key Woke- to become aware Flex- show-off Real talk- to be honest Extra- excessive Lit- Good\/ cool I\u2019m about to spill … Continue reading “That Time I \u2018Spilt the Tea\u2019 in Class”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/brandonblack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}