I host a "read-in" every year.  It's basically a poetry slam, with an emphasis on the writings of African-Americans.  The school's Jazz combo plays jazz standards during class change times.  I usually hold it the Friday before the long President's Day Weekend!



On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Kristie McGarry via CASL-L <casl-l@mylist.net> wrote:
Ann Petry -- novel The Street -- a Harlem Renaissance writer and Connecticut women's Hall of Fame Member

http://www.cwhf.org/inductees/writers-journalists/ann-petry/#.Vnmfy-w8KnM


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> On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Cathy Andronik via CASL-L <casl-l@mylist.net> wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure Marilyn Nelson still lives in CT.
>
> Cathy Andronik
> Teacher Librarian
> Brien McMahon HS
> Norwalk
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> On Tue, 12/22/15, Michele Eligio <meligio@northbranfordschools.org> wrote:
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> Subject: [CASL-L] African American Read In
> To: CASL-L@mylist.net
> Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015, 1:31 PM
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> Hi,
>
> We would like to participate in the African American Read In
> this coming
> February.
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> http://www.ncte.org/aari?utm_source=46816684&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=General
>
> Has anyone participated before? Additionally, does anyone
> know of any
> African American authors in Connecticut that would be good
> for high school
> level students?
>
> Michele Eligio
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