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“If It Hadn’T Been For Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilient Dwelling And Rhetorical Agency In Prison Writing, Maggie Shelledy

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Teaching In A Multicultural And Demanding Society, Khalid Aada

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

What does involve leading a new experience of teaching and learning under the new paradigm of a true knowledge society? Is it about mastering the teaching experience through critical reflection, or knowing the natural and social environment in its multiple interactions? Isn’t it about favoring an educational environment where students are not only limited to participate in a traditional way, but expect to find meaning to their learning experience and be able to build the acquired knowledge? This article allows to identify different stages in the new educational models within a multicultural environment. In other words, a field where teachers …

How To Promote Education For Sustainable Development? Vision Of The Educational Situation And Its Contribution To Sustainable Development., Khalid Aada

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

During the last decade, the importance of leaving a rational paradigm, debtor of functionalist and utilitarian models, towards another more congruent with the preservation of natural resources, and therefore of life, has been widely discussed. In the same way, different voices have been raised, pointing out the urgency of inserting these precepts into the educational field, hoping to achieve the true cultural transformation that is needed to consolidate the change. Multiple International Entities promote sustainability in Education as an initiative that should be ambitious, complex and reforming character, given the global scope of the social, economic and environmental situation affecting …

The Shape Of Translation Policy: A Comparison Of Policy Determinants In Bangor And Brownsville, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

RÉSUMÉ L’idée qu’il y a quelque chose que les chercheurs appellent «politique de traduction» existe depuis les tout débuts de ce domaine. Au fur et à mesure que les études avancent, de nouvelles perspectives continuent de contribuer à notre compréhension de l’évolution de la politique de traduction. D’une manière générale, ces études ont tendance à examiner de près le rôle que jouent les autorités dans la définition de la politique de traduction. Une telle approche a permis de dégager des perspectives utiles et, dans un avenir prévisible, elle continuera probablement d’offrir des perspectives enrichissantes. Mais souvent, la politique de traduction …

Gulf Trade Networks And Family Ties: French Migration Via New Orleans To The Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1881, Kristen D. Kline

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis considers economic and social aspects of French immigration to the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas during the mid-nineteenth century, with special emphasis on a small group of merchants who left France during the 1850s. It synthesizes the work of several scholars who have focused on French presence in the LRGV with others who have analyzed various economic facets of the LRGV during different periods between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. This study attempts to situate five families into the context of nineteenth-century European migration to the Americas, as well as into the Gulf maritime economy on …

Understanding College Readiness Through The Framework For Success In Postsecondary Writing: An Analysis Of Algebra Writing In High School, Gabriel Cerda

Theses and Dissertations

The topic of college readiness in the United States has become increasingly important as the number of students entering post-secondary institutions has continued to increase. Along with efforts to increase college readiness for students in K-12, calls have been made to better define what it means to be college ready and understand what factors play a role in preparing students for a postsecondary education. This study uses the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing as a critical lens and method of analysis to understand how the Framework can broaden our understanding of college readiness. This is a mixed methods study …

To Love The Birds And The Places They’Ve Made Their Home: Poems From The Magic Valley, Alyssa B. Garza

Theses and Dissertations

The theme of the collection could be summed up in these lines written by Caryll Houselander in The Reed of God, “body and soul together give glory to God: the sharper the capacity for sorrow and joy, the greater the hallowing...Christ laid hold of the world with His human hands...He wed Himself to it. Our life is the response of the bride” (66–67). Our loving connection to every human person is our loving connection to Christ—charity is our bride-ness. The poems follow one bride through her journey, with the author’s environment (the Rio Grande Valley) coloring the verses, as …

Non-Space: The Perception Of Reality, Carlos Limas

Theses and Dissertations

This is a formal study of real-world images that try to convey a clear approach to the way we look and relate to unexpected places that at first glance don’t exist in a metaphorical way or just don’t strike us as interesting or attractive. There’s no particular story to tell only the need to expose a different kind of beauty through my own personal subjective view and sensitivity expanding the criteria of my own esthetic values and context of a captured image in a particular scenario.

The perception of Non-Space relates directly to a well establish photography technique called Deadpan, …

Shattering Taciturnity: The Use Of Visual Arts As A Method Of Communication And Expression, Jesmil M. Maldonado Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations

Silence an action that conceals a person’s memories, thoughts, emotions, fears, and insecurities, making them crave a method of expression. In this case, the Visuals Arts serves as an approach to investigate, create, understand, accept, and confront the darkness within the artist's psychological and emotional state. Inspiration taken from vibrant colors and insects found within Puerto Rico's natural sources, how these interact, relate, and consume the human within. By creating a series of artworks, the artist starts to comprehend how silence has taken over her life. Taciturnity has become the flame that ignited the artistic flow that leads to the …

Coming To An Understanding: Daoist Rhetoric As Dialogue In Composition Studies, Veronica Anzaldua

Theses and Dissertations

Monological argumentation, based on Aristotelian principles, dominates composition pedagogy in the United States. With this model, students construct arguments in which they advocate for their own viewpoints. To make argumentation more dialogic, there exist various discourse models, including Daoist rhetoric, based on the ancient Chinese philosophy of Daoism. Its tenets have the potential to generate dialogic discourse in composition due to Laozi’s, Zhuangzi’s, and Sunzi’s principles. The recent cultural turn in composition studies opens space for the exploration of dialogic pedagogy. Dialogic pedagogies based on Daoist philosophies, with other recent pedagogical innovations, have the potential to promote deep, interconnected dialogue …

Detention, Virginia Murray-Torres

Theses and Dissertations

A novel-in-verse about a teenage girl's detainment in an immigration center, separation from her family, and removal proceedings hearing with a 360 degree point of view from the people she interacts with, as well as her own.

Oblivion, Angela V. Scardigno

Theses and Dissertations

I believe I am drawn to work with wood because of genetic reasons. My grandfather was a carpenter. I remember him as a hardworking and busy man. As something inseparable and equally inspiring, I remember his studio which was a small house that was full of creativity and great memories. My grandparents’ house is one of my first memories where I learned to create art and collage. I have started to notice, as I get older, that I am constantly trying to bring back an atmosphere that resembles that warm and safe place of childhood. I have also noticed that …

Glorious Indignities, Benito Salinas Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this creative work is to illustrate the relationship between the identity of the Rio Grande Valley as a whole, corporate control, immigration status, and interpersonal connection. This illustration is achieved through a series of interconnected short stories that culminate in a telling of a real-life event, the prison riot in the Willacy County Correctional Facility. This event has ramification for every character in the novel and for an entire county. This work attempts to simultaneously take a birds-eye view and microscopic examination of the events that lead up to the riot over the course of two and …

Propaganda, Patriotism, And News: Printing Discovered And Intercepted Letters In England, 1571–1600, Gary Schneider

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this article I propose that the relatively few intercepted and discovered letters printed during the reign of Elizabeth I fall chiefly into three categories: they were published as propaganda, as patriotic statement, and as news reportage. Although Elizabeth and her ministers published intercepted and discovered letters on a strictly ad hoc and contingent basis, the pamphlets and books in which these letters appear, along with associated ideo-logical and polemical material, reveals determined uses of intercepted and discovered letters in print. Catholics likewise printed intercepted letters as propaganda to confront Elizabeth’s anti-Catholic policies through their own propaganda apparatus on the …

Unidad Didáctica, Ciencias Sociales, Quinto, Jill Swanson

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 1.A, 6.A, 17.D, 22A, 23.C, 24.B, 24.C

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Comprender las causas y los efectos de la colonización europea en los Estados Unidos. a. Causas y efectos para los europeos. b. Causas y efectos para los indígenas americanos. 2. Cómo leer una cronología. 3. Usar las matemáticas para trazar las coordenadas geográficas.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: Participación: entrevistar a familiares. Hacer que los alumnos entrevisten a los miembros de la familia de mayor edad. Establecer un diálogo …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 11th Grade, Bernice Barrón, Albert Guerrero

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS: 6A Analyze Causes and Effects of Events and Social issues such as immigration, eugenics, race relations, nativism, the Red Scare, prohibition, and the changing role of women.

Lesson objective(s): 1. Changing Role of Women 2. The Twenties Woman Flapper 3. Amelia Earhart

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:+Power point Lecture +Visuals +video clips (to simplify what students process while learning)

Using Inquiry In Teacher Professional Learning To Build Efficacy For Writing Instruction, Jacqueline B. Koonce, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Kathleen Gibson

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Whitacre (2019) and Curtis (2017) found that participants’ efficacy impacted their writing instruction and ability to engage students. We share our experiences with a professional development program aimed to improve teacher efficacy and literacy of elementary teachers. In this professional learning network, the Study of Early Literacy (SOEL), a higher percentage of teachers reported to a Hanover Research survey that they felt less confident in teaching writing than other areas of literacy. To address this need, one of the authors developed a subgroup to specifically address the teaching of writing with an inquiry-based action research component. Most of the teachers …

Anti-Japanese Sentiment, International Diplomacy, And The Texas Alien Land Law Of 1921, Brent M. S. Campney

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Japanese ‘invasion’ of Texas appears to be in full swing,” reported a correspondent from the lower Rio Grande Valley (hereinafter, the Valley) on January 7, 1921. The writer drew this conclusion from the arrival a day earlier of two Japanese families who had been met at the train station in the South Texas town of Harlingen by a mob who warned the immigrants not to settle on the land that they had already purchased in the vicinity. The alleged invasion continued with the arrival of B. R. Kato, “another Japanese colonist from California, [who] reached Brownsville today.” As Kato …

Lesson Plan, World History, High School, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): - APUSH Key Concept 1.1

Lesson objective(s): 1.Identify the Olmec and Anasazi civilizations. 2.Describe the achievements of the two civilizations. 3.Evaluate the similarities and differences of the Olmec and Anasazi.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Teacher will model and explain the visual resources. -Students will create and personalize their venn diagrams.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 5th Grade, Jill Swanson

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 1.A, 6.A, 17.D, 22A, 23.C, 24.B, 24.C

Lesson objective(s): 1.To understand the causes and effects of European colonization in the United States A. European cause and effect B. Indigenous People cause and effect. 2.How to read a timeline 3.Mapping Coordinates (Math)

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Engagement: Family Interview: Have students interview the oldest family members possible. Use class discussion to form the list of questions for the interview. (Ensure that location is one of the interview questions) Have a map where students can place a marker to display where their family …

M. Roberts (Ed. And Trans.), Venantius Fortunatus, Poems (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 46). Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. Xx + 910. Isbn9780674974920. £19.95., Erica Buchberger

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 5th Grade, Johana Reséndez

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 4 G(S)-Science Reading comprehension

Lesson objective(s): 1. Agave plants grow. 2. Properties of soil gives nutrients 3. Rio Grande Valley (RGV) agave plant is native. (The tequila worm novel)

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Use nearpod so students can be able to collaborate, draw and record the answers in reflection of their learning

Lesson Plan, Geography, 1st Grade, Baleria Magaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6A: identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and weather SA: create and use simple maps of the community 14A: locate places using the four cardinal directions

Lesson objective(s): 1. The learner will identify a body of water that is on the side of the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge. 2. The learner will identify that the body of water is located to the South of the Santa Ana Wildlife 3. The learner will be able to locate The Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge on a map. …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, Luis Sandoval

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 8.1 A, 8.29, 8.30

Lesson objective(s): 1. How humans interact with the environment

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Ready for the Honors/GTS -Pictures & videos

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 11th Grade, Ana Patricia González

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Grade 5- 8A,8B,8C,9A,9B,25A,25C,25D,25E

Lesson objective(s): 1. Explain the reasons for nomadic lifestyles. 2. Explain the route nomads took. 3. Describe the groups that settled in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) and N.E Mexico

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Visuals- maps-color them -Cognates -Highlighted text

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Ee.Uu., Undécimo, Ana Patricia González

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): Grade 5- 8A, 8B, 8C, 9A, 9B, 25A, 25C, 25D, 25E

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Explicar las causas de los estilos de vida nómada. 2. Explicar las rutas que tomaron. 3. Describir a los grupos que se asentaron en El Valle del Río Grande y en el Noreste de México.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: Herramientas visuales: colorear mapas. Cognados. Texto destacado.

Unidad Didáctica, Historia Universal, Preparatoria, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop October 2019

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): APUSH: 1.1 concepto fundamenta

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Identificar las civilizaciones olmeca y anasazi. 2. Describir los logros de sendas civilizaciones. 3. Evaluar las similitudes y diferencias entre los olmecas y los anasazi.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: El docente proporcionará recursos visuales y los explicará. Los alumnos confeccionarán y personalizarán sus diagramas de Venn.

Lesson Plan, World History, 6th Grade, Sylvia Rodríguez

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6.3A identify and Explain geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions 6.15A Identify and describe means of cultural diffusion such as trade, travel, and war 6.13A Identify and describe common traits that define and culture and culture region.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The learner will (TLW) analyze and explain the similarities and differences between the Olmec, Maya and Aztecs. 2. TLW explain the geographic factors responsible for the settlement of the Olmec, Maya and Aztecs.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Provide Visuals Positive Reinforcement Peer Support Teacher Support

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, Emma Montiel

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) 10A • LOCATE PLACES AND REGIONS OF IMPORTANCE IN THE United States 10B - Compare places and regions of the United States in terms of physical and human characteristics, 30A - Use Social Studies terminology correctly.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) describe the Rio Grande River and compare the river at the Port of Entry to the river as viewed at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge 2. TLW list the impact the Rio Grande River had on Native People of the area 3. TLW complete a chart of edible and nonedible food …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, George Saldaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 1A

Lesson objective(s): How humans interact with the environment 1. Google maps

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Pics and videos