Have students report on what they have learned to the rest of the class. Why did or didn’t your group maintain your language over time? Is it still spoken today in Hawai‘i? How do past social relations on plantations explain why or why not your group speaks their language in 21st century Hawai‘i?Ĥ. Why didn’t Hawaiian become the shared common language? What languages would they have tried to simplify? What languages might they have used as a common resource? Think about how speakers would try to communicate by simplifying their language. Why wouldn’t your group have learned other group’s languages?į. Where would your group have interacted with people from other ethnicities/language backgrounds? Think about adults, teenagers, and children.Į.
Why would you have interacted with these groups? What kinds of social networks would this have led to?ĭ. What other kinds of people (ethnicities) would your group have interacted with?Ĭ. What were the main time periods that your group came?ī. Encourage them to use the timeline on the /Pidgin websiteĪ. Distribute questions students must research. Emphasize that they need to think about the social relations among different ethnicities as a way to understand why a pidgin developedģ. Tell students that they need to learn about their assigned ethnicity in order to think about why a pidgin language began to develop on plantations. Consider the following as key ethnicities to assign (they appear in order of historical migration):Ģ. Assign groups of students ethnic group identities. To help students brainstorm ideas, show students the following clip from Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai`iġ. For this task, students will be required to put themselves into the position of researching what life was like for a specific ethnic group in Hawai‘i during the beginning of the plantation era. Objectives: To use language as a lens for describing the political, social and economic effects of the plantation system on life in Hawai‘i, including ethnic tension and the evolution of Hawaii Pidgin English, the school system, and the establishment of labor unions. Lesson 1: Social Relations on Plantations: The Origins of Pidgin
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