Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2010
Capstone Advisor
Dr. Amardo Rodriguez
Honors Reader
Dr. Zaline Roy-Campbell
Capstone Major
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Capstone College
Arts and Science
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Humanities
Subject Categories
Communication | Other Communication | Social Influence and Political Communication
Abstract
This Capstone Project is a multimodal presentation, combining a research paper, a quilt, and a video. The research paper brings together the background of the collective elements that have made up the 4-6th grade classroom of the Somali Bantu Community-Based Tutoring Program this semester. It touches on methods of teaching English Language Learners (ELL), gives a brief background of African American quilts, illustrates the power of resistance communicated through the autoethnographic genre, and describes how the quilt was created. The quilt gives a viewer an inside glimpse to the students and tutors who are a part of the tutoring program and represents the way people come together to form community. The quilt tells more than 60 stories, and as such, will be argued to not only be a form of communication, but also a form of literacy. Finally, the video is presented to give a viewer a glimpse into our 4-6th grade classroom, highlighting these young people’s poetry in their own voices
Recommended Citation
Stessen, Amanda, "And That’s How I Feel on the Gudaha: A Quilting Project from a 4-6th Grade Classroom from the Somali-Bantu Community-Based Tutoring Program of Syracuse" (2010). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 331.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/331
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