DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, Bronx, District 10
Literary Criticism Workshop: A series of in-depth analytical discussions with authors.
Visit 1: October 15, 2009
Visit 2: December 2, 2009
Visit 3: January 12, 2010
Two 11th grade classes read Then We Came to the End, a New York Times best-seller and National Book Award finalist, by Joshua Ferris; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; and On Michael Jackson by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson. All three authors visited the class to lead discussions on their books, listened to students’ interpretations of specific excerpts and talked about the process of writing each book. In their final project, students created marketing campaigns based on Mr. Ferris’ book; a critical response to Mr. Bank’s book and his writing style, and written reflections on Ms. Jefferson’s book.
To see pictures from each visit, please check out the following pages!
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