World Cafe — questions on poster boards or on table tops.
Reflections on yesterday
Changes in student body — anti-war; shaped by the horrors of the age; can more easily talk about Marxism
Myth at UMW that male students only need to breathe to get in.
Syracuse U — resources on transgendered students
Veterans as a minority group at UMW
Unrecognized populations on campus
Diversity in writing
“You write the way you talk.”
The Skin that we Speak, Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom, Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Lee Warren, “Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom,” Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
Writing or speaking assignment
Topic: Focus on several images from Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration of the Negro series,” 1940-41.
Themes: African-American experience; experience of migrants (opportunity to relate the images to their own experiences or their family’s experience, or immigration in the news); experience of being/feeling threatened.
Structure: Moving from art (formal qualities of color, perspective, style) to narrative; moving from discussing something safe (formal qualities of the image as art); to how do formal qualities communicate emotion; to meanings of images (to Lawrence, to student). How do the images suggest a threat?
“Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes.”
“In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not.”
“They also made it very difficult for migrants leaving the South. They often went to railroad stations and arrested the Negroes wholesale, which in turn made them miss their train.”
“Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts.”
