15893: Vedrine: Re: 15867: Hermantin- Comments on K-12 Creole texbooks (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


http://hometown.aol.com/ewvedrine/Dizan.htm

>Assuming that a school district in the US would decide to implement a
>bilingual k-12  Creole-English program, do we have the capacity to provide
>potential students with Creole Language textbooks  covering required
>subjects  such as History, Geography, Algebra  Natural Sciences etc. ? I
>would love to hear from the experts about the feasibility of developing
>such a program in the United States.

Where's the beef? Very few people (mostly Haitian educators) have already
developed a lot of teaching materials (Kreyol - English) for Haitian
Bilingual throughout the US. Some of them have been in use in schools in
Haiti. I give a lot of credits to EDUCA VISION (educavision.com). I was
amazed when I discovered them in 1994, working in the same direction with
our project (with the goal to develop the MAXIMUM teaching materials in
Kreyol - English to equip Haitian teachers). Fequiere Vilsaint (a
biochemist) and Maude Heurtelou (a nurse) [co-authors of many Kreyol –
English materials] have brought their expertise to the field (of developing
Kreyol – English materials]. After 10 years of hard works (that I also
enjoyed also), I’ve developed the following teaching documents for Haitian
Bilingual Programs:

1. An Annotated Bibliography On Haitian Creole: A review of publications
from colonial times to 2000
2. Di yon vèb, tire yon kont (riddles /From a verb, I’ll tell you a riddle)
3. Dictionary of Haitian Creole Verbs With Phrases & Idioms
4. Dis powèm sou lanati (poetry /Ten poems on Nature)
5. Dizan Rechèch & Piblikasyon Kreyòl
(A bibliographical summary of Védrine’s 10 years of writings)
6. E.W.Védrine Electronic Archives
7. Gramè Kreyòl Védrine (Védrine’s Grammar of HC - First monolingual Grammar
in Haitian Creole covering all aspects of the language)
8. Ide pou kreye yon High School Ayisyen prive nan Boston (debate /Ideas to
found a private Haitian High School in Boston)
9. Koze Lanmou (poetry -Vol.I / A collection of love poems in HC)
10. Koze Lanmou (poetry -Vol.II /A collection of love poems in HC)
11. Materyèl Edikatif pou Bileng Ayisyen (Teaching materials for Haitian
Bilingual)
12. “Manyèl pou anseye kreyòl ayisyen” (Manual to teach Haitian Creole)
13. Men l anlè l ap vini (short story /He’s in the air coming)
14. “N ap aprann pwovèb ayisyen” (proverbs / We are learning Haitian
proverbs)
15. Petit lexique du créole haïtien (historical linguistics)
16. “Peyi m rele Ayiti” (essay / My country is Haiti)
17. Poetry in Haitian Creole
18. Sezon sechrès Ayiti (novel / Season of drought in Haiti)
19. “Theses & Dissertations Related to Haiti (20th century)”
20. Ti istwa kreyòl: Short stories in Haitian Creole
21. Ti powèm ayisyen oktosilab (poetry)
22. Un stylo international (poetry / An international pen)
23. Yon koudèy sou pwoblèm lekòl Ayiti (essay /A look at the problem of
schools in Haiti)
24. “100 kesyon ak repons pou ekzamen sitwayènte amerikèn nan” (civics /100
questions & answers to prepare for the US Citizenship exam)
25. 23 Poèmes en français et en haïtien (poetry /23 poems in French and in
Haitian)


E.W.Vedrine
Editor-in-Chief
E.W.Vedrine Creole Project, Inc.
web: hometown.aol.com/ewvedrine/Dizan.htm

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