Three homework assignments due in 2 days

Homework1.Discussion: please write around200-300 words discussion by using your own words.

Topic-Official language:

US does not have an official language. Do you think the US government should change that, i.e. should English become the official language of the USA? If you think it should, discuss why. What consequences will that have? If you think US does not need an official language, give your arguments. What would you say to politicians advocating for making English an official language? You may review the mission statement given by ProEnglish proenglish.org. Do you agree with their guiding principles? Does their agenda match their stated principles? Do you support their call to President-Elect Trump to repeal executive order 13166?

Homework2. Please write about 500 words essay about how the course changed your views. There are course description and study guide, use something from them when you write it.

write an essay on if and how this course changed your views. The questions to touch on in your essay are listed below. If there are some other issues you want to discuss, feel free to do that in this assignment. Please write about 500 words.

Have your language attitudes towards any language variety (language, dialect, etc.) changed during the course of taking this class? If so, how? If not, which attitudes do you think you still hold that you always did and what factors contribute to them? Please take a critical look at your own language attitudes and discuss whether you think knowing more about different dialects or foreign accents changes how you feel about them, or whether your language attitudes are just a reflection of your social attitudes and thus aren't changed based on information about the language varieties themselves.

Homework3.

Please write about 500-700 words

 If you could make a movie on a language-related topic that would be viewed by every single American, what topic would you choose? Please explain what information you would try to convey in the video, why you chose that topic over all others, and what changes you hope it would make in society for everyone to become more informed about that topic. Be creative -- don't just state the topic, but let us know how you will communicate it and what you will shoot. Notice, the movie doesn't have to be documentary, it can also be a fiction.