First-Generation Symposium: Building Relationships & Engaging Students Through Poetry & Performance
This symposium, led by Dr. Sonny Kelly, focuses on critical performance ethnography, pedagogy, and youth activism through poetry and performance. Participants explore key terms, ground rules, and express themselves through haiku. It encourages respect, doubt, and self-expression in an open-minded setting.
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First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition Building Relationships & Engaging Students through Poetry & Performance Dr. Sonny Kelly
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition Sonny Kelly, PhD Sonny Kelly, PhD Scholar, teacher, performer, storyteller, writer & director Communication Instructor at Fayetteville Technical Community College Research is focused on Critical Performance Ethnography, Critical Pedagogy, and Youth Activism/Empowerment Creator of The Talk, a one-man show he wrote and performs that dramatizes the difficult conversation he had with his own son about the racialization of America His recent dissertation entitled Pipelines to Pathways: Reframing and Reclaiming Black Youth Identity through Performance presents a critical performance-centered approach to the criminalization of Black youth and the School to Prison Pipeline
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition Key Terms Feel some type of way In my feelings Hit me in the feels Cap/No cap Doing the most She came for me Read me dirty/Read me for filth ^ Keeping it 100 I m here for it! Nice fit!
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition Ground Rules 1. RESPECT: Respect yourself enough to share your truth. Respect others enough to listen open mindedly to their understanding of the truth. 2. NO DOUBT: Give each other the benefit of the doubt. We DO better when we KNOW better. Ignorance should educated, not punished. 3. SPEAK FOR YOURSELF: Always speak from your own experience. Avoid generalizations, stereotypes, and assumptions. You are an expert on your own life. We welcome your expertise.
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition HAIKU HAIKU 5 SYLLABLES 7 SYLLABLES 5 SYLLABLES
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition SHOWED 1. What did you SEE? 2. What is HAPPENING here? 3. How does this affect OUR lives? 4. WHY do you think this is happening? 5. How can we be EMPOWERED by this new understanding? 6. What can/should we DO with this new information
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition RACE 1. Reflect on the story 2.Ask clarifying questions about the story and storyteller 3.Connect with the story and storyteller 4.Expand the story by combining your perspectives
First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition First-Generation Symposium: Two Year College Edition REMEMBER Nobody cares how much you know till they know how much you care!
