This special panel for middle and high school teachers is intended to help integrate African-American poetry into their curriculum. A poetry reading will follow the workshop. Those participants attending both the program and the reading will receive a certificate for four hours of professional development points towards licensure renewal.
PROGRAM AGENDA
12:00 – 12:30
Participant Registration
12:30 – 12:50
“Your Attention, Please: Ways of Listening”
John Casteen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, Sweet Briar College
12:50 – 1:10
“What’s the Wordle?”
Lisa Woolfork, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia
1:10 – 1:30
“Nontraditional Ways to Approach the Reading and Writing of Poetry,”
Chapman Hood Frazier, Professor of Middle and Secondary Education, James Madison University
1:30 – 2:30
Breakout Groups
Teachers will be divided into three groups and every 20 minutes will rotate among each of the three professors to share ideas in a small group and to share triumphs and challenges.
2:30 – 3:00
Closing Remarks and Panel Discussion
Lisa Woolfork, John Casteen, Chapman Hood Frazier
3:00 – 3:30
BREAK
3:30 – 5:30
Poetry Reading, Grafton-Stovall Theatre