2. Blue Ribbon Mentor- Advocate
Who are we?
What is our goal?
Who are our students?
blueribbonmentors.org
3. Research Behind SWI
“There is sufficient evidence to argue that both culturally responsive
pedagogy and positive racial identity promote academic achievement
and resilience... “ Mary Stone Hanley and George Noblit. 2009. Cultural Responsiveness, Racial Idenity, and Academic Success: A Review of the Literature.
“Historically, African American reading and writing were collaborative acts
involving a wide range of texts that held social, economic, personal, political
or spiritual significance.” Alfred W. Tatum.2009. Reading for Their Life:Rebuilding the Textual Lineages of African American Males.
4. Dr. Tatum’s AAAMSLI
5 weeks
Various genres
Explicit discussion of race
Application process
Stipend, lunch, transportation
http://aaamsli5.blogspot.com/
6. Blue Ribbon Summer Writing Institute
July 17, 2012
Day 1- Finding Our Voices
Sign in/ Writing Survey
10min
Read:
20min
Group Agreements
Mango Street
10min
Harlem
Write: A place I know
Writer’s Notebooks/Tools
10min
Our Website
WH Graffiti
Writing: Autobiography
15min
60min
poem, prose, graphic- you choose
TED video- Sarah Kay
20min
Share out/Line cards
15min
Read:
25min
Read: You Don’t Know Me
“Where I’m From”
Share Sharon’s books
Write: words, phrases about where I am
from
My Name
“Names/Nombres”
Write: my name ideas
LUNCH
7. A-Ha’s And Reflections
Day 1- Worksheet Moment
Text is more than written word on the page
“Real” authors are important
I have more to learn from my students at times than they have to learn from
me
Time to write, time to write, time to write
8. Its seeing the universe open up right before your eyes, As the stars and planets swirl into one.
Make a wish,
There it is,
Flying through the night’s sky,
A shooting star come to bless us as it passes by.
(rest of student work deleted by Teresa Bunner. You
Do not have permission to copy or reprint this work)
9. My slim hands are not meant to hold the whole world.
So, when you ask me what would I become?
I cannot tell you what I don’t see.
So, when you ask me questions that even I can’t see clear. But I’ll tell you what I have imagined
already.
(sample of student work only. No permission granted to copy or reprint)
10. Yo soy de miles de plantas hermosas
De limonada fresca
Yo soy de el jardín hermosa de mi abuelita Lleno de flores
I am from hundreds of beautiful plants. From fresh lemonade
coloridas
I am from Nana’s beautiful garden, Full of colorful flowers
Que regabamos con agua todos los dias
We watered every day. Yo soy de un arbol de limones
I am from a lemon tree Decorado con limones grandes, verdes y jugosos Todos listos
Decorated by big, green, juicy lemons Ready to be picked. para ser deshilachados
(Sample only of student work. No permission granted to reprint or
copy for use)
11. Student Feedback
What activity did you find most helpful?
“...getting feedback from the group.”
“Talking to wriers and sharing our stories”
What suggestions do you have for improvement?
“Make it longer”
“More time”
“Recruit more people”
12. This Summer...
3 weeks
Credit recovery or stipend
Lunch, better access to technology
Kelly Starling Lyons and Matt de la Pena as writers in residence
Required reading
Min. of 2 pieces submitted
13. Possible mentor texts:
“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan
“Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros
“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes
Ellen’s Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons
“Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth
“Inside Out” from The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a
Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez
“Discovering Books” from Black Boy by Richard Wright
“Learning to Read and Write” from Frederick
Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave
Night by Elie Wiesel
‘IU” by Tavis Smiley
“Behind Bars” an excerpt from Monster by Walter Dean
Myers
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole
Boston Weatherford
“Learning to Read” from The Autobiograhy of Malcolm X
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“Miss Rosie” by Lucille Clifton
“Federico’s Ghost” by Martín Espada
Books by Matt de la Peña