Lunch and Learn: Rethink the Five-Paragraph Essay and AAPI Student Success
The AANAPISI grant team is pleased to announce its first workshop, “Lunch and Learn: Rethink the Five-Paragraph Essay and AAPI Student Success.” This workshop will be held Friday, August 19 from 12 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. in CA-321 on the Annandale Campus and will involve the sharing of personal stories, mind-opening research, interesting discoveries and practices and insights of our own students. We will welcome your views, innovative practices and contributions to a discussion of equitable college education. A free boxed lunch will be provided to attendees. Register Today! RSVPs due by July 20!
About the Workshop
The five-paragraph essay has been a staple in U.S. K-12 schools and college composition teaching and writing, but it has also been under fire for quite a while as it functions “as an anti-perplexity machine,” leaves “no room for the untidiness of inquiry or complexity and therefore no energy in the writing,” and allows teaching approaches that are “not nearly challenging enough.” In short, some continue to espouse its virtues, and others advocate to “kill it.”
How should we still go along with it to, as Thoreau writes, “make what use and get what advantage” of it as is usual in such cases? To what extent is this essay format one-size fits all, and in what aspect does it prove to be restrictive? How about students who have different philosophical, historical, cultural, educational backgrounds, particularly to implement CRP and HIPS (Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & High Impact Practices) to help AAPI students and their fellow college students? This workshop invites you to join in a conversation of discoveries, solutions, and fresh thought.
For more information: Contact Dr. Yuemin He, yhe@nvcc.edu. In the event that you need accommodations to attend, please contact ada@nvcc.edu.
Submitted by:
Ed Aymar, DEI Communications Coord., EAymar@nvcc.edu