Spring 2022 Events

South Africa Study Abroad Interest Session
Tuesday February 1 @ 12:30-1:30pm
Hybrid Meeting Option– In Person Social Science Building Room 230
Online–Zoom: Meeting ID: 944 2166 3075 Password: 852402 https://tcnj.zoom.us/j/94421663075?pwd=N1h2bG0vcUVtVHdBYUxpMWdQQWRCdz09

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Dan Brady, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 22 @ 12:30-1:50pm
Zoom: https://bit.ly/DanBradySubtexts

Dan Brady (TCNJ Class of 2004) will be reading from his new poetry collection, Subtexts, from Publishing Genius Press. Dan was one of the founders of Ink, the TCNJ student writers group, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. He is the author of Strange Children (2018), also from Publishing Genius Press, along with two chapbooks. He is the poetry editor of Barrelhouse.

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South Africa Study Abroad Interest Session
Tuesday February 22 @ 12:30-1:30pm
Hybrid Meeting Option– In Person Social Science Building Room 230
Online–Zoom: Meeting ID: 944 2166 3075 Password: 852402 https://tcnj.zoom.us/j/94421663075?pwd=N1h2bG0vcUVtVHdBYUxpMWdQQWRCdz09

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Sarah Blake, Meet the Author Event
Friday, February 25 @ 12:30-1:50pm
Zoom: https://bit.ly/SarahBlakeCleanAir

Sarah Blake (TCNJ Class of 2007) is a poet and novelist. She’s published three volumes of poetry: Mr. West (Wesleyan University Press, 2015); Named After Death (Banango Editions, 2016), and Let’s Not Live on Earth (Alice James books, 2017). Her first novel, Naamah (Riverhead Books, 2019), received the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction. Sarah will be reading from her February 2 release, Clean Air (Workman Publishing, 2022).

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Poetry Mentor Texts in secondary ELA classrooms

ELA Teacher Learning Series-Virtual Session with Dr. Emily Meixner
Tuesday, March 1 @ 9am-Noon

For more information: https://tpd.tcnj.edu/english-language-arts/

Fee:
Standard: $125.00 per person/session
PDSN Member: $100.00 per person/session
Materials and Certificate of Completion included

Poetry, argues author Jason Reynolds, “is created to love young adults, and for them to love.” But to love poetry, students must have increased access to it. They must spend more time with it. They must stop being polite, and as poet Eve Mirriam instructs, “Bite in.” This interactive workshop seeks to help secondary ELA teachers and students do just this. Together we will explore three different strategies for incorporating poetry into secondary English classrooms. Participants will have the opportunity to read, discuss, write, and workshop poems that they can then incorporate into their instruction

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Students Re-Imagine the Canon

Friday, March 4 @ 12:30-1:30pm
In-Person in Education Room 115
Virtual Simulcast: http://bit.ly/SigmaTDLIT101

Join students Brook Distler, Jake Hamtil, Percy Martinez, Annie Mulligan and Leanna Travers as they present their final versions of a literary canon from their Fall LIT 101 Course with Professor Knittle.

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Writing About Literature: Exploring the Contemporary Essay

ELA Teacher Learning Series-Virtual Session with Dr. Emily Meixner
Tuesday, March 8 @ 9am-Noon

For more information: https://tpd.tcnj.edu/english-language-arts/

While secondary English classrooms are often spaces in which students engage in literary analysis by writing argumentative, thesis-driven essays, there are other ways in which they might write to learn about literature. One traditionally under-used, but valuable genre is the contemporary essay. This workshop will provide a rationale for teaching the contemporary essay, introduce participants to its form, offer example essays for consideration, and develop teachers’ comfort writing in this genre.

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Winter 2023 Study Abroad British Theatre Interest Session
Friday, March 25 @ 12:30pm
Bliss Annex 228