Warm Up Chapter 6

Rose chose unique assingments to give the Veterans, like taking a poem or a song lyric, or a sentence from a book and merely anylyzing and talking about the language. The veterans really responded to studying language, as Rose says, mostly because linguistic play was a part of their culture, or they merely liked to get Rose worked up over what they were saying. He would always try to sneak word play into a lesson.
I think that Rose chose to make linguistic play a part of his lessons because he knew that the veterans had experience with it outside of the classroom. They needed a connection to the type of language that they were used to in order to be able to connect the content of the classroom to their outside lives. These play-on-words discussions allowed some vets who may not have considered themselves intellectuals to become more comfortable as "insiders" in classroom discussions. They were all able to understand the language and draw their own conclusions from it.