NEW PROJECTS FOR THE YEAR 2015-16

Project information will grow as we add details to projects ! (scroll down)

LETTERS TO INANIMATE OBJECTS: Mountain Elementary

Teachers: Kim Dudley and Heather Young
Mar. 1 – Mar. 31, 2016

Days of Week: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Time: 9:00-10:15am
This project takes place in two classrooms simultaneously

Title: Letters to Inanimate Objects
Description: Students will be writing love letters in the form of poetry between inanimate objects (Google poet Sarah Kay’s Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire). Teachers Kim Dudley and Heather Young have developed a well-structured curriculum that will provide students (and WPAs!) with an engaging way to get from prose to poetry.

HOME HEART & HAPPINESS: Branciforte Middle School

Teacher: Sara Goldfarb
Feb 15-Mar. 24 / Home Heart & Happiness

Two groups:
group 1: 11:25-12:25
and
group 2:  1:45-2:45
Title: Home, Heart and Happiness
Description: Students will write poems on aspects of home, heart, and happiness, creating a portfolio of poems from which two will be chosen to appear in the anthology.

HABLAMOS JUNTOS – Together We Speak: Renaissance High School

Teacher: Lynn Clausen
Grade 9-12
Jan. 21 – Mar. 8, 2015 Start Date: Jan. 21
Days of Week: Tuesdays and Thursdays (at Renaissance High School, Watsonville)

Group 1: 11:22-12:15
Group 2: 12:22-1:15

Title: Hablamos Juntos
Description: this project is a collaboration with Museo Eduardo Carrillo. Students will use the artwork of Latino artists to inspire their personal narratives on community. The project will result is a full-color, hardback book of student writing paired with artists’ work.

HOME TO WHO I AM

Teacher: Lisa Carlton
Grade 9-12 Seabright School, an Alternative Ed site
Feb. 1 – Mar. 23, 2016
Time: 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
Days of Week: Mondays and Wednesdays

Title: Home to Who I Am
Description: students will write about their place in Santa Cruz and how it has shaped who they are.

HOME HEART & HAPPINESS: Branciforte Middle School

Teacher: Sandra Jennings
Jan 4-Feb 12 / Home Heart & Happiness

Title: Home, Heart and Happiness
Description: Students will write poems on aspects of home, heart, and happiness, creating a portfolio of poems from which two will be chosen to appear in the anthology.

HOME HEART & HAPPINESS: Branciforte Middle School

Teacher: Wendy Thompson
Title: Home, Heart and Happiness
Description: Students wrote poems on aspects of home, heart, and happiness. They created a portfolio of poems from which two will be chosen to appear in an anthology which will include all eighth grade students from Branciforte Middle School.

MOMENT OF CHANGE: Gault Elementary

Teacher: Steve Salas
Title: Moment of Change
Description: Students wrote narratives about something particular in the world that they think needs changing. Pieces from their narrative were used in the creation of a poem.

ROOTS & SHOOTS: CEIBA College Prep

Teacher: Rebecca Fox
Title: Roots & Shoots
Description: After choosing a family member to interview, students created questions and interviewed a relative. They composed a personal narrative that described not only the answers to their questions but which also included their response to the questions.

UNCOVERING THE TRUTH: Star Community School

Teacher: Tara Kemp
Title: Uncovering the Truth
Description: Students focused on a civil rights issue and lent their voices to uncovering the inherent elements of that issue.