February
2, 6 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica,Queens, ELSI*
Grade 1, Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah’s Collections & Time Is When
10, 11 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem
Grade 10, The Anne Frank Center, Diary of Anne Frank (field trip)
10 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan Grade 6, Shadra Strickland, Bird
Poetry Writing Workshop
13 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant Grade 11, Kevin Powell, Some Day We’ll All Be Free
Rhetoric and Oratory Workshop
26, March 4 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem
Grade 10, Francine Prose, Diary of Anne Frank discussion
Journal writing
March
6, 13 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Grade 4, Zetta Elliott, Bird
Poetry Writing & Illustration Workshop
10, 17, 24 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant Grade 5, Doreen Rappaport, Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round
Historical Fiction Workshop
20, 27 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Grade 4, Shadra Strickland, Bird
Poetry Writing & Illustration Workshop
25, April 6, May 8, 20, June 3 – PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, ELSI*
Grade 4, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson
*Elementary School Initiative — an inter-disciplinary study of the Hudson River; ecological, historical, and the future
April
1, 22 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica, Queens, ELSI*
Grade 5, Gail Carson Levine, Dave At Night
Historical Fiction Writing Workshop
1 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 8, Trip to Museum of the Moving Image
In conjunction with Brian Selznick visit
2 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 8, Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
2 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesan, Grade 4, Random House Field Trip
In conjunction with Zetta Elliott & Shadra Strickland visits
23 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem
Grade 9, Patricia McCormick, Sold
Nonfiction Writing Workshop
24,May 1 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant Grade 4, Tony Medina, I and I Bob Marley
Poetry Writing Workshop
28 - DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Grade 9, George Packer, Betrayed Writing and Activism Seminar
29, May 20 - PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, ELSI*
Grade 3, Kam Mak, My Chinatown
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to create illustrated books
Students will tour Chinatown with Kam Mak on May 6th.
29, May 5 – PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, ELSI*
Grade 4, Tony Medina, I and I Bob Marley
Poetry Writing Workshop
May
1 – PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, ELSI*
Grade 4, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson Field trip to Hudson River
4 – JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan,
Grade 8, Tony Medina, I and I Bob Marley
5 – JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 6, Trish Marx, Steel Drumming At the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog
Students will tour the Apollo Theatre on May 15th.
5 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Grade 11, Erin Patton, Under the Influence: Tracing the Hip-Hop Generation's Impact on Brands, Sports, & Pop Culture
6 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem, Grade 10, Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Part of the Anne Frank project and nonfiction Writing Workshop
7 – PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Grade 5, Random House Field Trip
7 – JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 8, Tony Medina, I and I Bob Marley
7 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem, Grade 9, Patricia McCormick, Sold
7, 14 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica, Queens, ELSI*,
Grade 5, Trish Marx, Dave at Night
15 – JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 6, Tour of The Apollo Theatre
In conjunction with Trish Marx visit
15 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Grade 4, Kai Jackson Issa, Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to research project about the civil rights movement.
19 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica, Queens, ELSI*, Grade 5, Andrea Kantrowitz (Teaching Artist)
In conjunction with Trish Marx’s visits
27 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Grade 11, Alissa Quart, Branded: The Buying And Selling of Teenagers
A study of propaganda aimed at teens
27 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant ELSI*
Grade 4, Andrea Kantrowitz (Teaching Artist)
In conjunction with Tony Medina visit
28 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 8, Greg Neri & Jesse Joshua Watson, Chess Rumble
Poetry Writing and illustration Workshop
29 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem, Grade 9, Sharon Draper, The Battle of Jericho
Fiction Writing Workshop
June
2 – DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12
WITT Seminar Conference; A semester-long study of the intersection between writing and activism
10 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Grade 5, Kai Jackson Issa, Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to research project about the civil rights movement.
