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Working alongside Abram Katz from the Heartisan Foundation, we helped students build community and confidence with writing techniques and expressing emotion in their descriptive storytelling. The stories were then transformed by the students into a recorded narrative matched with images, bringing their stories to life. This storytelling project was important for the students because it gave them the chance to express themselves, recognize their emotions, and their cultures.
Readers theater promotes literacy fluidity and improved comprehension of materials read. Teachers incorporating readers theater into curriculum lets students act out their readings. The physical movement and reading aloud engage multiple parts of the brain, creating new dendrites. A local kindergarten class I worked with chose a play to perform. Once settled on a story, they read aloud their lines and practiced. After practicing, the students did a performance for the class.
The colonization of the New World is a result of European male supremacy. Through an ecofeminist lens one can see the clear relationship between the way the early-explorers perceive land and women, in a position of self-declared authority. Columbus’s and Vespucci’s dualistic perceptions of the New World were not only anthropocentric (human-centric), but androcentric (male-centric), and in their different works there is a clear correlation between conquering land and conquering a woman's body.
