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Moldables For Sale
No full textMoldables for Sale is a series of creative works intended to explore digital consumerism and its impact on feminine spaces and identities. Each piece is developed with consideration of feminist art history and theory to better understand why digital spaces continue to contribute to misogyny rather than eliminate it, and to learn why digital consumerism benefits so much from the objectification of women. These creative works speak to the struggle between wanting to reject objectification despite finding pleasure within the objectified consumer identity, as well as discovering the empowerment that can come from admitting ones’ vulnerabilities to generate empathy for others
Her Burning Namesake
Get PDFHer Burning Namesake is a collection of ekphrastic poetry centered around the twenty-two Major Arcana cards in the Tarot Deck illustrated by Pamela C. Smith. The Tarot Deck inspires personal growth and insight as a tool for self reflection and is a unique artwork in its interactiveness; viewers are encouraged to seek themselves within the cards and make inferences about their meanings in a way that is inherently personal. By writing poetry about my deck, I hope to share some of the intimacy of my experience with others, while inviting readers to form their own connection with the cards
Daisy in the Dark
No full textHer classes. Her job. Her weird friends. Her love life. Her mom\u27s bad habits. Her mom\u27s love life. Oh, and going into the Dungeons of Valen to seek the Lapis Circlet. Daisy, an aspiring wizard and alchemist, and her best friends, a thief and a cleric, start off looking mostly for adventure. But they\u27re immediately caught up in the race to find the Circlet, caught up with new friends and new enemies and some who are neither or both: the brainless barbarian warriors, the smarmy archer guy, the blond frenemy enchantress, the enigmatic elf maiden, amidst hordes of orcs and goblins, monsters and dragons, not to mention that rather ordinary-looking key... that too. -- Back coverhttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1090/thumbnail.jp
Gwyn\u27s unhatched chick ballet
No full textModest Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an exhibition, movement 5. Ballet of Unhatched Chicks. Performed by Professor Steven Pane, on piano. Art work painted by Gwyn Ash
Read Our Lips
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I wanted a focus on representation. As I began to write and think through the shape of the show, I had an urge to reread Camille Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers in which Dungy discussed the burden thrust upon her of representing all black women when she was the only black woman at the table during a writer’s retreat. There was an expectation from the other writers that she would explain and speak for black women in general during a conversation about portrayals of race in media.
All of us in the cast have at one point or another, whether in class, at home, or among friends, been expected to represent the demographic in which we fall. And I did not want to force this burden on my performers. So it was vital to my vision of the performance that we each write our monologues ourselves. We would not represent anyone but ourselves by telling our own personal true stories. This was one small way that this show diverged from Ensler’s monologues in that we did not perform as characters telling stories that belonged to someone else. While Ensler’s do not lack in their power and deeply touch on specific experiences that so many people share, it is easier as a listener to build a comfortable wall between the story you hear and the harsh reality of it when the monologue is performed in character. I decided that we hold copies of our monologues on stage as another way of reminding the audience that the stories they heard had happened to the people in front of them.
And as a journalist, I wanted to express a range of experiences that I felt did not get enough attention. This started with my own medical journey over the past year as I encountered diagnoses I had never heard of before, a lack of treatment options due to a lack of research on the female reproductive system, and gender bias and abuse in the healthcare system. But as the cast came together I wanted to broaden the scope of material the show would cover by touching on sexualities that often get erased like asexuality and pansexuality, the fluidity of the non-gender conforming experience, and where overlaps existed between the queer and cis-gendered experience when bodies assigned female at birth seek physical autonomy and change
Who Will Care for the Dead?
No full textWho Will Care for the Dead? is an extended field of poetic thought, image, movement, and sound that traces a relationship of kinship between the unraveling body and the cycle of bereavement, isolation, and regeneration. - the authorhttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1101/thumbnail.jp
Nothing Gold Can Stay Looking at the history and literary meaning of one of Robert Frost\u27s most famous poems
No full textThis project aims to look into the literary meaning and history surrounding Robert Frost\u27s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay . By utilizing ArcGIS StoryMaps and their many unique features, the creator hopes to give a holistic overview of the famous modernist work, including a brief history on the author and a short close-reading analysis of the poem
Pictures at an Exhibition Project: Animated Zentangle
No full textAs a common practice in mindfulness, the Zentangle serves as a means meditation and anxiety reduction. I explore the design style of Zentangle with Pictures at an Exhibition in mind.
Zentangle animation inspired by Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an Exhibition. I. Promenade; performed by my professor, Steve Pane
Mathematics Coaching, Professional Development, and Teacher Practice
Get PDFRecently, math coaching has begun to be utilized in pockets of communities throughout the country. Coaching is a strategy that can be used to provide on site, continual professional development in a specific area. Although it has been used in literacy for decades, it is new to the area of math. Therefore, research on the effect of math coaching has been limited. There have been a handful of initial studies investigating the relationship between math coaching and teacher knowledge or student achievement, but the results are often conflicting (Althuser, 2015; Killion, 2017; Kutaka et al., 2017; Obara, 2010).
By learning more about how coaching impacts teaching practices and which types of professional development have the most impact, we can better determine for districts how to utilize resources to support teachers as they work to implement best practices that will ultimately lead to improved student achievement
Quarantine Teaching 101: Teaching Middle School Students about Sustainability From Afar
No full textThis StoryMap provides a collection of resources for an integrated curriculum unit that focuses sustainability. The aim of integrated curriculum is to use two or more subjects to teach . In this case, the two chosen topics are English and Social Studies and the aim is to connect to an overarching theme of sustainability. Many of the resources are online and are meant for middle school aged children. These things can be adopted and used to fit the needs of any particular student or class. The unit is broken up into active learning resources, project ideas, discussion starters, and other bits and pieces educators can use to support their own units