{"id":2588,"date":"2013-06-24T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:12:45","slug":"fourteen-comes-in-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/fourteen-comes-in-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Comes in \u201913"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2699\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2699 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Author Vaddey Ratner\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/addeyRatnerHeadShot-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaddey Ratner, author of\u00a0 &#8220;In the Shadow of the Banyan&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College marks its 14th annual Summer Common Reading (SCR) program in Fall 2013 with <em>The New York Times<\/em> bestseller <em>In the Shadow of the Banyan<\/em> by <strong>Vaddey Ratner<\/strong>. SCR is the first step in Kalamazoo College\u2032s first year experience. The assigned reading and short written responses lead to discussions with fellow first-year students, faculty and staff among other readers.<\/p>\n<p>SCR began in 1999. Each year the author of the selected text visits campus and reads and discusses the work with the incoming class during orientation week. This year\u2019s novel focuses on the character of Raami, a five year old girl living in Cambodia\u2019s capital city at the time of the Khmer Rouge coup. \u201cOften, when students first read a SCR selection, they don\u2019t usually like the characters. But when the students interact with the author they become really involved, and they begin to enjoy the texts\u201d, said <strong>Zaide Pixley<\/strong>, dean of the first year and advising.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Shadow of the Banyon<\/em> was suggested by Writer in Residence <strong>Diane Seuss<\/strong>, one of three members of an SCR team that evaluates and determines each year\u2032s selection. Other members are\u00a0 Pixley and <strong>Marin Heinritz<\/strong>, assistant professor of English and journalism. According to Pixley, potential selections must be\u00a0 \u201crecent, appealing, well written, and intercultural. The author must be willing to visit campus and have the ability to engage with eighteen-year-old readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the summer the students are asked to write a response paper based on one of several prompts. Orientation week discussions focus on the responses and continue into the classroom with first year seminars. First year seminars were added to Kalamazoo College\u2032s curriculum in 1990. The seminars develop the critical thinking and writing skills that are necessary for college-level work. Seminar professors read the SCR selection and students\u2019 written responses, meet with the author during orientation, and discuss the book with their seminar classes.<\/p>\n<p>Each seminar class is assigned a peer leader, an upperclassman student who mentors first-years and fosters community among the seminar members. Peer leaders often participate in the first year forums, special events\u00a0that focus on the goals of the First Year Experience. Many of the forums connect back to the issues and perspectives raised in SCR discussions.<\/p>\n<p>All members of the K community are invited to read <em>In the Shadow of the Banyan<\/em> before classes start this September. Author Vaddey Ratner will visit the campus on Friday, September 12, to read from her novel at 8 PM in Stetson Chapel. She will discuss her work with students at 10 AM on Friday, September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College marks its 14th annual Summer Common Reading (SCR) program in Fall 2013 with The New York Times bestseller In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner. SCR is the first step in Kalamazoo College\u2032s first year experience. The assigned reading and short written responses lead to discussions with fellow first-year students, faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[17,43,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-campus","tag-community","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Fourteen Comes in \u201913 - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College marks its 14th annual Summer Common Reading (SCR) program in Fall 2013 with The New York Times bestseller In the Shadow of the Banyan by\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/fourteen-comes-in-13\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fourteen Comes in \u201913 - 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SCR is the first step in Kalamazoo College\u2032s first year experience. The assigned reading and short written responses lead to discussions with fellow first-year students, faculty and staff among other readers.<\/p>\n<p>SCR began in 1999. Each year the author of the selected text visits campus and reads and discusses the work with the incoming class during orientation week. This year\u2019s novel focuses on the character of Raami, a five year old girl living in Cambodia\u2019s capital city at the time of the Khmer Rouge coup. \u201cOften, when students first read a SCR selection, they don\u2019t usually like the characters. But when the students interact with the author they become really involved, and they begin to enjoy the texts\u201d, said <strong>Zaide Pixley<\/strong>, dean of the first year and advising.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Shadow of the Banyon<\/em> was suggested by Writer in Residence <strong>Diane Seuss<\/strong>, one of three members of an SCR team that evaluates and determines each year\u2032s selection. Other members are\u00a0 Pixley and <strong>Marin Heinritz<\/strong>, assistant professor of English and journalism. According to Pixley, potential selections must be\u00a0 \u201crecent, appealing, well written, and intercultural. The author must be willing to visit campus and have the ability to engage with eighteen-year-old readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the summer the students are asked to write a response paper based on one of several prompts. Orientation week discussions focus on the responses and continue into the classroom with first year seminars. First year seminars were added to Kalamazoo College\u2032s curriculum in 1990. The seminars develop the critical thinking and writing skills that are necessary for college-level work. Seminar professors read the SCR selection and students\u2019 written responses, meet with the author during orientation, and discuss the book with their seminar classes.<\/p>\n<p>Each seminar class is assigned a peer leader, an upperclassman student who mentors first-years and fosters community among the seminar members. Peer leaders often participate in the first year forums, special events\u00a0that focus on the goals of the First Year Experience. Many of the forums connect back to the issues and perspectives raised in SCR discussions.<\/p>\n<p>All members of the K community are invited to read <em>In the Shadow of the Banyan<\/em> before classes start this September. Author Vaddey Ratner will visit the campus on Friday, September 12, to read from her novel at 8 PM in Stetson Chapel. 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