Somewhere in La Mancha:
a performance, language, and literacy workshop with Patricia Sobral
a performance, language, and literacy workshop with Patricia Sobral
Patricia Sobral guided the group through series of community building activities. Paticipants used their bodies, minds, and creative forms of expression to work together as a group. The activities were enriched by the variety voices and experiences of the group.
After reading a text from Chapter One of Don Quixote, participants shared ideas through a writing carrousel brainstorm activity to include everyone’s input about each other’s work. Participants responding to the text in Spanish and English sparked an in-depth discussion about the text from the various interpretations and perspectives the group embraced.
a visual arts and literacy workshop with Cynthia Weiss and Kurt Wootton
Kurt introduced the idea of “kennings” – a Norse poetic tradition of describing beings and forces of nature through compound phrases calling out qualities and actions of what is being described.
We were then invited to create kennings for Don Quixote, and then kennings for ourselves. These were developed at our tables, allowing us to contribute to each other’s self descriptions.
Kurt and Cynthia explained the purpose and intent of the mask making workshop and how they have used it in the past to emphasize the endless opportunities for creativity to flow in the classroom.
Habla seeks to support both collaborative discourse and individual agency. Reflection at Habla occurs as a rhythm between individual and collective thought and expression. Each day, participants write individual reflections that become resources for collective discussion. A variety of structures for sharing and listening are engaged in throughout the institute – including moments of silence, times for speaking without immediate responses, times for listening without speaking, times to reflect on others’ reflections, times for sharing in pairs, and times for sharing within and to small and large groups.
You can see all the Thinking Routines used in this institute in the Resources section of this documentation website.