H.S. 670 Thurgood Marshall Academy For Learning And Social Change, Harlem, New York, District 5

Thurgood Marshall Academy was founded in 2001 upon the belief—articulated by the eponymous US Supreme Court
Justice—that all children have a right to a first-class education and the opportunity to reach their full potential. Behind the Book has helped Thurgood Marshall realize its mission by bringing to both high school and junior high school students renowned authors Patricia McCormick, Rita Williams-Garcia, Sharon Draper, Ishmael Beah, and Geoffrey Canada to lead discussions and various writing workshops. Tenth grade students studied Anne Frank with the support of author Francine Prose and visited the Anne Frank Center. This past year, Behind the Book worked with the entire 9th grade.

2009-2010

Grade 10
Catherine McKinley, The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts, a lesson about personal narratives

2008-2009

Grade 9
Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront, fiction writing workshop

Patricia McCormick, Sold, nonfiction writing workshop

Sharon Draper,The Battle of Jericho, writing assembly

Grade 10
Francine Prose, Diary of Anne Frank, discussion, personal narrative workshop, field trip to the Anne Frank __Center

Ishmael Beah, Along Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, human rights discussion

2007-2008

Grade 9
Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront, fiction writing workshop
Geoffrey Canada, First Stick Knife Gun, memoir writing workshop

 

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