2023 Cavalier Conference

 

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.