Schedule
Continental Breakfast: 8:00-8:30 a.m.
Welcome: 8:30-8:50 a.m.
Mickey McCloud, JCCC Provost
Miguel Morales, Poet
Session I: 9:00-10:00 a.m.
RC 175
Nicolas Ceballos Guzman
My Verse & My Identity: Overcoming The Effects of
Identity Imposition with Two YA Verse Novels
Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and The Poet X by Elizabeth
Acevedo are two pieces of literary justice that English teachers should
implement. Both books provide a critical interpretation of the initiation,
maturation, and education of young adults. This presentation reviews the books’
lessons and suggests a method to teach both pieces.
Chani Perret
Getting your students to do Independent Reading without a
fight
Want to implement Independent Reading in your classroom?
This session will come with tricks and tips for making independent reading
successful and showing students that they are all readers.
Huascar Medina
Acknowledging the Presence of Kansas Poetry
The power of Kansas poets writing today has been
undermined by only teaching about poets outside of Kansas. In doing so, we have
alienated students and undercut the immediacy of Poetry that easily prevails in
authentic spaces. Representation matters for all Kansans.
Session II: 10:10-11:10 a.m.
RC 101B Session 2D
Session Chair: Marianne Kunkel,
Johnson County Community College
Accessing Culturally Responsible Rhetorical Education
Adam Banks, Stanford University
Learn planning and implementation for an undergraduate “Notation
in Cultural Rhetorics” including notes on the design of the notation’s
gateway course.
How Transferable Are Writing Skills Between Disciplines?:
A Writing Audit of UMKC’s Required Undergraduate
Classes
Molly Doroba, University of Missouri-Kansas City
This presentation will discuss the results of a writing audit used
to rhetorically analyze writing assignment prompts in required
undergraduate courses across different disciplines at the University
of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) to determine the similarities and
differences in rhetorical skills needed, genres required and
Coffee Break
Session III: 11:30-12:30 p.m.
RC 181
Muffy Walter
Whose Freedom of Speech?
This presentation shares how a First-Year Writing
class focused on freedom of speech and linguistic justice transformed students'
concepts of language and human rights through assignments and class
discussions, which encouraged students to question who has the right to free speech
if only Standard American English is "right."
Claire Smith
A Little Machiavellian": Rhetorical
Strategies that Allow Women Access into Conversations in the Classroom
What does it say that we teach Machiavellian
rhetorical strategies in the classroom, but vilify women, like Taylor Swift,
when they use them in the public sphere?
Lunch and Keynote: 12:40-2:10 p.m.
Hare and Bell Awards Kara Kynion
Welcome by Larry Reynolds
Keynote April Baker Bell
Closing Remarks: 2:10-2:30 p.m.
