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Beloved: Born Of Sethe's Slavery And Trauma, Sariah Dutkiewicz
Beloved: Born Of Sethe's Slavery And Trauma, Sariah Dutkiewicz
Fall Student Research Symposium 2021
Toni Morrison’s Beloved introduces many characters who exhibit clear signs of trauma due to their past as African American slaves, however, one character in particular stands out: Sethe. Sethe’s life as a slave led her to experience and do horrendous things. The worst being the difficult and violent decision to murder her own child, Beloved, in an effort to prevent her child from being forced into slavery. Though Sethe survived her life as a slave, she was unable to focus on her future because of her past that consistently haunts her. Her trauma is portrayed in many different forms throughout …
Results Of Lexile Level Reading Practices On Rural Middle School Students, Tiffany Sanderson
Results Of Lexile Level Reading Practices On Rural Middle School Students, Tiffany Sanderson
Fall Student Research Symposium 2021
Many students have experienced, and remember, reading comprehension exams from their time in grade school. These tests examined student ability to comprehend different levels of reading so that educators could ensure a student was reading within grade level targets. ATOS and A-Z along with the Fountas and Pinnell reading programs are all previous methods used in ELA classrooms across the nation. Some of these are still used widely today. ATOS is a program which closely resembles Lexile as it also determines book and student scores with a method that correlates back to grade level. For example, sixth-grade would be 6.0. …
The Language Of Classroom Design: How Aesthetic Impacts Learning, Josie Rivera
The Language Of Classroom Design: How Aesthetic Impacts Learning, Josie Rivera
Fall Student Research Symposium 2021
Secondary classrooms are the settings where crucial learning experiences occur, yet much of the existing research on classroom design pertains to elementary schools. The general lack of importance placed on the physical layout of secondary classrooms insinuates that while younger students benefit from an attractive, visually pleasing classroom, teenage students do not. Despite this, educators seek to make their classrooms places of refuge and learning. For example, Utah’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, Lauren Merkley, decorates her room with thrifted lamps which emit a warm glow in her classroom. Martin Reeder of Sky View High School curated a ‘book nook’ …