Workshops
"Power in the Pages: Foregrounding Equity in your Writing"
Where and how do conversations about power show up in the way we craft our stories? To respond to this question, this event will help guide writers through exercises that interrogate their influences emphasizing how chronology, relationships and representation can help us to build a story with equity and social justice at the forefront of our writing. Please come prepared to write and reflect!
Program length: 90 minutes
School Visits: Virtual and In-Person
1.5 hr, large assembly (multiple classes or grades combined):
I recommended allotting 2 hours in a large space for everything, especially if a signing is included.
Wiggle Warm Up
Digital, projected reading of Hands Up!, Impossible Moon, or Atlanta, My Home (A picture book commissioned by the Alliance Theatre for the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students and the Mayor's Office of the City of Atlanta)
Q&A
Sing-a-long
Cool Down Activity
Farewell Song
Book Signing (By request, partnered with a local bookstore)
For individual class sessions,
I have 2 options for a half-day (3 sessions) or full-day (6 sessions):
Class sessions last 30-45 minutes and include:
Wiggle Warm Up
Story-time Reading of Hands Up! (Whole Book Approach), Impossible Moon or Atlanta, My Home (A picture book commissioned by the Alliance Theatre for the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students and the Mayor's Office of the City of Atlanta)
Q&A
Sing-a-long
Farewell Song