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Unit 7
Grades 9-10
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Louise Bennett and the Fight for Patois as Literature

Jamaican Patois, also called Jamaican Creole, is a fully formed language with its own consistent grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation rules, developed primarily from English vocabulary combined with West African grammatical structures and some additional Spanish, Portuguese,…

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