Exploring Faces of Diversity, Finding Our Roots: The I am... I
am from... Exhibit Summer Research Institute Merrimack College June
23, 2012
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http://www.svc.edu/pr/index.html?release_id=1322
http://www.svc.edu/pr/index.html?release_id=1322
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit Quest For Success is required of all students
at SVC. The course is intended to familiarize students with a range
of essential skills and the knowledge necessary for success at all
levels in a college setting, while providing them with significant
and engaging learning experiences in a supportive and supervised
civic endeavor.
http://www.svc.edu/academics/first_year_course.html
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our
Roots resulted from the collaborative effort on the part of
students and their professor from Southern Vermont College. The
team benefitted from the assistance provided by the staffs at the
Bennington Museum and Southern Vermont College, the support from
Ancestry.com and FamilyTreeDNA.com, and the mentoring of Dr. Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. The displays are the products of a process that
took the class on a dynamic exploration of their roots, much as
Gates reported for those highlighted in his 2006 documentary
African American Lives and through Finding Oprahs Roots, Finding
Your Own (2007), Faces of America (2010), and Finding Your Roots
(2012).
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit From the Exhibit Placard Exploring Faces of
Diversity and Finding Our Roots are exhibits that consider the
different ways viewers learn. The exhibitors built and painted the
pedestals upon which their ancestral objects are displayed. You
will learn about the exhibitors by examining their graphic
displays, which include autobiographical text, vital records, and
family photographs. You may listen to their recordings with or
about family members. You will read facsimiles of the exhibitors
DNA certificates, which include results.
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit T he exhibitors traced their roots by
recording oral histories and documenting them through genealogical
research, which included vital records searches and online
investigations. Finally, the exhibitors underwent Autosomal DNA
testing. The DNA results provided scientific proof of their
maternal ancestries.
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I keep my family tree on a wall in my kitchen. I glance at it
at least once every day. It gives me a sense of satisfaction that
is difficult to explain.... Just being able to read the names of
several of my third and fourth great grandmothers and grandfathers
places me in the world just as surely, in its way, as does my birth
certificate.... The record of our familys past is hanging on the
wall of our kitchen for [my daughters] to see if they ever want to;
their family lineage has been established for all time. This is who
we are as a family, who our people were, and are, and where they
came from. And nobody in our family, ever again, has to wonder
about their origins. That is the power of genealogy. And that, for
an African American, is a marvelous thing. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Finding Oprahs Roots 172
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) CAP is both a 2-credit, letter-graded academic course
and an academic program: it is supported and coordinated through
the Office of the SVC Provost. CAP students are nominated and
selected by a faculty sponsor; they work closely with the faculty
member whose course they are apprenticing within, those students
who are matriculating in this course, and the professor of the CAP
course, which provides their preparation.
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) CAP students work with small groups of students
during class time to help facilitate discussions and activities
under the supervision and at the direction of their faculty
sponsors. Outside the classroom, CAP students facilitate small
group sessions on particular aspects of class content, again under
the direct supervision and support of their faculty sponsors. CAP
students provide direct feedback, insight, and input to their
faculty sponsors about their everyday contact with the students in
the class
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) Brett Clatworthy
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP)
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Using at least one citation from Mark Haddons The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Henry Louis Gatess Finding
Oprahs Roots, Finding Your Own, and Sandra Cisneross The House on
Mango Street, write a 2-4 page, word processed paper in which you
discuss some othering practices that the authors write about,
including their own experiences of these practices as well as the
experiences of those whose stories they narrate.... You should have
a draft that you can share with the class by September 26. We will
workshop this draft on September 26 and then again on October 3.
The final paper, with all drafts and critiques, is due on October
17. You should make use of the Colleges Success Center writing
tutors in completing all drafts of this paper.
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) 1. Has the writer met the requirements of the
assignment, including citing our three books? 2. What did you like
best about the draft? 3. What would like to read more about in a
revision? 4. Does the draft have a thesis and is it supported well?
5. What words, phases, sentences seem really effective? 6. What is
almost said that you wish had been included? 7. When using
quotations, did the writer cite them accurately? 8. If the writer
did not use quotations, can you suggest places where they could be
used in the draft? 9. Is there anything, technically or
grammatically, that you think the writer should review? 10. What
would you like to tell the writer about your overall reaction to
the draft?
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) It was great to hear other papers and be able to
compare them to mine. I wanted to hear other perspectives and
approaches so that, while drafting my own, I can consider them and
make sure that I am clearly stating what I want to say. Getting
feedback from the three Upper-class students was extremely helpful
considering they had to write a similar paper last year. Now that
we've gone through the first peer editing session, I can be more
confident that my final will be much improved from my first
draft.Katherine Grayson
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) It was definitely good to hear other perspectives,
especially the upper-class students because they've had this
experience before in the same class. I definitely agree that all
the perspectives from students as well were good.Angelina Rodriguez
I think Mondays class was very helpful in revising my draft. Mai,
Molly, and Brett were very helpful.Salvatore Sciara
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVCs Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) Because the CAP students were clearly more mature
than the rest of the students, they were comfortable as mentors and
as co-learners with the newer students. The newer students
respected Ben and Brett, learning from them because of the strong
relationship they established and because of their acquired
academic skills as a result of their years at SVC. Because Brett
and Ben did so well, I sincerely hope that the program will be
extended and expanded in the future so that CAP students permeate
the entire curriculum.
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From Interdependence to Independence: SVC Course Apprentice
Program (CAP) Amy was always an active participant in these
discussions. The first-year students in the class looked up to her
as an older peer and valued her advice and experiences at SVC. Amy
and I met weekly to discuss how the course was progressing, details
about student performance, and ways to improve the class.
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit Numerous articles about the first-year
seminar, the exhibit, and the Gates visit/lecture in the Bennington
Banner and the Rutland Herald Blogging about the First-Year Seminar
Blogging about the First-Year Seminar See
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/student-success-alliance/blog.php
http://www.pearsoncustom.com/student-success-alliance/blog.php
Northeast Writing Association Conference (presentation at Boston
University, April 10, 2010) International FYE Conference (accepted
presentation in Maui, June 10, 2010) AAC&U Conference on
Creativity, Inquiry, and Discovery: Undergraduate Research In and
Across the Disciplines (accepted presentation in Durham, NC,
November 2010 November 2010)
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Exploring Faces of Diversity and Finding Our Roots: The I am...
I am from... Exhibit Southern Vermont College and the Bennington
Museum are proud to be partners in this first-in- the-nation
project.
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