Ten Queensborough classes, as well as students from Benjamin Cardozo High School, Bayside High School, Hillcrest High School and Martin Van Buren High School, will read To Kill a Mockingbird and participate in the following activities. The entire college community is invited. For information on other scheduled events please see our LibGuide on the QCC Library Homepage or join our Facebook Group "To Kill a Mockingbird at QCC." Events with an asterisk (*) have been taped and are available for viewing on TigerMedia.
Events:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Drop-In Read Aloud of To Kill a Mockingbird
Location: LB14
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon
Students are invited to "drop-in" to participate in an oral presentation of the text. Please bring a copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" with you.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Race, Justice and White Privilege in the American South in the 1930s: Examining the Trial in "To Kill a Mockingbird"*
Location: Library, 3rd Floor, Open Area
Time: 10:00 am to 12:50 pm
Introduction and discussion by Dr. Megan Elias / Trial performed by student in Professor Michael Cesarano's Class
Join us as Dr. Megan Elias presents a brief introduction to the historical setting of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Her introduction will be followed by a performance of the trail by students in Professor Michael Cesarano's Oral Performance for the Actor and Speaker class. After the performance, audience members will be able to ask questions of Dr. Elias, Professor Cesarano and the student actors.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Boo Who? A Conversation on Boo Radley and Stigma in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: S111
Time: 1:10 pm to 3:00 pm
Hosted by Jessica Rogers, Adjunct Lecturer, English Department
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Leaping Off the Page Part I: From Words to Pictures
Location: M136
Time: 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Examining the adaptation of a classic from novel to film. Presented by Jillian Abbott, Adjunct Lecturer, English Department
Friday, March 2, 2012
Presentation of "Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: LB14
Time: 11:15 am to 1:00 pm
A documentary exploring the story behind the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" including a portrait of Harper Lee's life via interviews with her friends, family and fans.
Monday, March 5, 2012
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Book Discussion
Location: LB14
Time: 9:15 am to 10:30 am
Led by Professor Sandra Marcus
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
QCC Production of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: QPAC Theatre - Humanities Building
Time: 1:15 pm
Talk-back session with the actors available after this performance.
Thursday, March 8, 2012QCC Production of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: QPAC Theatre - Humanities Building
Time: 10:00 am
Talk-back session with the actors available after this performance.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Movie Presentation of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: LB14Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Monday, March 12, 2012
Movie Presentation of "To Kill a Mockingbird"Location: LB14
Time: 9:30 am to 12 noon
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
"The Innocence Project: Reflections on Wrongful Imprisonment"*
Guest Speakers: Mr. Fernando Bermudez and Olga Akselrod, Innocence Project Staff Attorney
Loation: M136
Time: 1:10 pm to 3:00 pm
Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" tells the story of Tom Robinson, a man convicted of a crime he did not commit. Although Lee's story takes place in the deep south in the 1930s, wrongful imprisonment continues today all over the world. Join us as Mr. Fernando Bermudez tells us how he was wrongly conviced of murder and spent 18 years inprison. He will be joined by Olga Akselrod, staff attorney at the Innocence Project, a national litigation public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Boo Who? A Conversation on Boo Radley and Stigma in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: LB14
Time: 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Hosted by Jessica Rogers, Adjunct Lecturer, English Department
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Leaping Off the Page Part II: If Only I Knew Then What I Know Now
Location: M136
Time: 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Examining the adaptation of a classic from novel to film. Presented by Jillian Abbott, Adjunct Lecturer, English Department
Friday, March 16, 2012
"To Kill a Mockingbird": Child Development in the Midst of Turmoil*
Location: LB14
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Presented by Dr. Jeffery Jankowski.
Join us as we take a look at the children portrayed in "To Kill a Mockingbird" from a psychologicalpoint of view. Dr. Jeffery Jankowski will introduce Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory and discuss how his nested systems play a crucial part in the development of the children portrayed in the text.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Presentation of "Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird"
Location: LB14
Time: 11:15 am to 1:00 pm
A documentary exploring the story behind the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" including a portrait of Harper Lee's life via interviews with her friends, family and fans.
In “The Shawl,” a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In “Rosa,” that same woman appears thirty years later, “a madwoman and a scavenger,” in a Miami hotel. And, in both stories, there is a shawl—a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her or even magically conjure her back to life.
Six Queensborough classrooms will cover The Shawl and participate in the following activities. The entire college community is invited.
Events:
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Oral Performance of the Text
Location: LB14
Time: 1:10 pm to 3:00 pm
Students will be invited to take turns reading aloud from their copy of the text.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Movie Event: The Devil’s Arithmetic
Location: S111
Time: 1:10 to 3:00 pm
This is the story of a modern (circa 1980s) teenage girl who halfheartedly accepts her family’s Jewish traditions. When asked to “open the front door to the prophet Elijah” as part of the Seder feast, she—like Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz—is transported to another place and time. Her arrival in 1940s Poland focuses on her experience as a prisoner in a German death camp.
Wednesday, November 23 ,2011
Tattoos and Identity
Location: M136
Time: 1:10 pm to 3:00 pm
During this event, students will have the opportunity to showcase their tattoos. They will be asked to present their tattoos to the audience, share their reasoning for getting their tattoos, discuss the actual experience of tattooing, share their thoughts on the permanence of tattoos, and reflect on the effect their tattoos have had on their lives. After all students showcase their tattoos, Miss Ruth Turek, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, will talk about her tattoo which was forced on her as a means of identification during the Holocaust.
