My Senior Project essential question: How are second-generation Arab Muslims negotiating Islamic interpretation regarding gendered clothing? This question has provided a consistent framework for my project. It also allowed me[…]
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Leanne Daley – Blog Post #3
Returning home after a month was bittersweet. I missed the food and the environment of Italy more than anything, but I also missed my family and New York, and the[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #3
Senior project is over! Looking back, I’m very surprised by the ways my project changed its shape and focus. Starting out, my essential questions were “How does pedagogy differ in[…]
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So far in my project, I have realized that my goals have shifted. I had initially planned on basing my project solely around lithography and painting but as I have[…]
Blog Post 1#
My first week of the senior project has been the experience that I wanted it to be. I am finding that the work that I have put into this painting[…]
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Overall, the project has gone to plan. I have kept up with the reading. The reading has been the backbone of everything else happening in the project. It has allowed[…]
Blog Post #2
I have really enjoyed the past week of my work, and am incredibly excited about the second half of my archives work. On Monday, I completed the survey section of[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #2
My project has really been flying by! For the last three weeks, I’ve been working at Stephen Gaynor School, and in the next three weeks, I’ll be moving to the[…]
Leanne Daley – Blog Post #2
What has/hasn’t gone to plan? What new questions have you discovered? Have your goals or aspirations for the project changed. Are you happy with your project thus far, both[…]
Leanne Daley – Blog Post #1
You are one week into the Senior Project Experience. How is your project matching up to your expectations or dreams? What did you expect coming into the project? What[…]
Blog Post #1 – Tilda Sutter
I have thoroughly enjoyed the first two weeks of my senior project. Even though the project has proved more challenging than expected – I definitely underestimated the content I would[…]
Zain Erakky – Blog Post #1
This project is beginning to meet my expectations and dreams for discovering how your faith affects how one dresses and/or acts. This week a question that came up was, how[…]
Zoe Karp – Blog Post #1
So far, this project has been almost exactly what I expected in terms of structure and day-to-day, but I’m learning more about myself and the way I work in classrooms[…]
Tilda Sutter – Annotated Bibliography
Schwartz, J.M., Cook, T. Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory. Archival Science 2, 1–19 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435628 In Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory, authors[…]
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Meaning of the Holy Quran by Ahmad Hamid and Mohamed Hamed, Dar El Shorouk, 2011. The first text I will explore is the Qur’an. Specifically, I will read Hamid, Ahmad,[…]
Leanne Daley – Annotated Bibliography
Finlay, Victoria. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Print. Victoria Finlay brings the reader through every color family on the pallet, exploring everything, from[…]
Annotated Bibliography
Lam, Kristy. “How to Engage the 7 Types of Learners in Your Classroom.” Literacy Planet, 9 Oct. 2017, www.literacyplanet.com/blog/ how-to-engage-the-7-types-of-learners-in-your-classroom/. In this blog post, Kristy Lam discusses the 7 different[…]
Discovering the LREI Archives
In my senior project I plan to learn about archivism by investigating and organizing the LREI archives. For the first section of my project I am going to learn about[…]
Leanne Daley – Opportunities in Orvieto
For the month of April, I will be living in Orvieto, Italy, working with a local artist. I have a relative who lives in Orvieto with her husband and his[…]
Islam, Gender and Wardrobe
My senior project will focus on gender within Islam. Specifically, I want to focus on how 2nd generation Arab Muslims are negotiating Islamic interpretations regarding gendered clothing? As a 2nd[…]
Figurative Sculpture and Ceramic Art
Olivia DeTraglia Throughout my time in high school, and more specifically during the shutdown and pandemic, I have grown to find a love for and comfort in ceramics and sculpture.[…]
Comparison of 1st Grade Classes
Zoe Karp For my entire life, I’ve known that teaching and working with little kids is something I’m not only passionate about, I’m also really good at. Since the[…]
Urban Farming and Urban Design
Miles Horner 2/3/22 Proposal Pt. 1 My project is going to be a research project, learning about urban design and urban farming. The final product will be a research paper,[…]