The Lobo Reading Experience is now offering workshops by request!
QUESTIONS?
Anyone affiliated with UNM: Instructors, Student Groups, RAs, Ethnic Centers, Student Support Services, ASUNM, Etc.
To fill out a Workshop Request form, please click here and complete the form.
LRE workshops can be a great resource to:
- Build community
- Discuss social issues & solutions
- Improve analytical & reflection skills
- Fulfill syllabi requirements
- Learn new skills
- Network
- Explore new career/degree options
You will get to write in the location that your class or group would prefer when completing the workshop request form. If you do not have a location preferred or available, please ask that LRE reserve a space for you.
After your first workshop, please feel welcome to request another one!
After the workshop, Lobo Reading will send you a Google Poll asking about your experience. We would love your feedback and any suggestions that you might have for future workshops!
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate in emailing us.
OFFERED WORKSHOPS
Themes: Privilege, Identity, Societal Perceptions.
Materials: Bingo Cards, Copy of Just Mercy.
Time Commitment: 50-75 Minutes.
Reading: Pages 24, 26-27, 31-33, 300 Just Mercy.
Individual Activity: Students will hear a passage from Just Mercy and mark their cards based on how they identify as an individual. Students will then calculate their privilege percentage. Volunteers may share with the class.
Paired and then Group Discussion: Reactions/Responses to the activity.
Learning Outcomes: Students will discuss the inequality that exists between populations based on societal perceptions. Students will be encouraged to develop a growth mindset and advocate for change.
Themes: Racial Profiling, Black youth, community response.
Materials: Copy of Just Mercy, YouTube clip, Cut-out words, Scissors, Glue, ½ sheets of paper (ham).
Time Commitment: 50- 75 Minutes.
Reading: Pages 37-38 Just Mercy, Related Documentary, Related Article
Individual Activity: Students will hear a passage from Just Mercy and see a short clip from Grey’s Anatomy. Students will then respond using recycled words from magazines to create a poem. Poems do not have to follow any order; it is loosely-structured.
Paired and then Group Discussion: Students will discuss their poems with their neighbors. Volunteers will share with the class. Students may keep their work or release it to LRE for publishing.
Learning Outcomes: Students will identify the ongoing problem that has become a coming-of-age moment in today’s world for black males. Student responses will acknowledge, advocate against, and/or offer solutions for this issue. Students will share this discussion with their peers to bring wider awareness to the issue and encourage a growth mindset.
LRE workshops can be a great resource to:
- Build community
- Discuss social issues & solutions
- Improve analytical & reflection skills
- Fulfill syllabi requirements
- Learn new skills
- Network
- Explore new career/degree options
You will get to write in the location that your class or group would prefer when completing the workshop request form. If you do not have a location preferred or available, please ask that LRE reserve a space for you.
After your first workshop, please feel welcome to request another one!
After the workshop, Lobo Reading will send you a Google Poll asking about your experience. We would love your feedback and any suggestions that you might have for future workshops!
