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She distributed handouts from a single resource on a single figure. The handouts were from an NAACP collection and focused on Claude McKay. Schmidt gave one handout to each student. One document included poems, one included an FBI file on McKay, one included two book reviews, one included correspondence, and another included additional information on McKay.
[Related: Tara Schmidt's working with the fellows]
Each of the documents had a date on them,
The students had to converse with each other to determine the order, and once they did they discussed out loud what they had. The result was that they pieced together aspects of McKay's life and experienced based on these disparate fragments.
The activity resembled the practice of a researcher finding various pieces or fragments on a subject and then tying them together to form a narrative.
Beyond that exercise, Schmidt talked to the group about approaches to doing searches online. Her excitement about her field was infectious and had the Fellows and me interrupting to ask questions about how one becomes a librarian.
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What an ingenious activity! Thanks for sharing this, Dr Rambsy! I work with Tara at UTSA and have benefited from her generosity-and yours-for years. So grateful for the opportunity to work with you both and to read about the AALCI fellows’ research development.
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