Roshawnda Bettencourt, a student at Placer County’s Oakmont High, captured first place in California’s Poetry Out Loud state finals. She recited “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows [...]
Stories in Schools:
Performance art
Freedom writers
Some folks in Long Beach are peeved at their town’s portrayal in the new Hillary Swank movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. From today’s LAT:
Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach is one of the [...]
Performance art
Freedom writers
Some folks in Long Beach are peeved at their town’s portrayal in the new Hillary Swank movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. From today’s LAT:
Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach is one of the [...]
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July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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