Hungry for a Good Book!

Celebrate Read Across America at Francis Scott Key Elementary

Read Across America

Event Dates

Tuesday March 8th (RM 1,3, 10 & 13) Kathryn Otoshi
author of “One” a book about bullying behaviour. This book was read and discussed in each classroom during FSK’s “Bully Free Week”.

Thursday March 10th (RM 11,12, 19 & 21) Jorge Argueta
El Salvadorian author and poet of many bilingual books including “A Movie in My Pillow”, “Trees are Hanging from the Sky” and “Talking with Mother Earth”.

Monday March 14th (RM I, O, 2,4, 5 & 23) Jane Wattenberg
author/illustrator of “The Duck and the Kangaroo”, “Never Cry Wolf” & “Henny Penny”

Tuesday March 15th (RM 6,7,18 & 20) Doris Feyling storyteller
resident storyteller at Grattan Elementary

Thursday March 16th (RM 14,15 & 17) Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy
resident storyteller at Francis Scott Key Elementary

Thursday March 24th (RM 16 & 22) Stage Write - Literacy Through Theatre with Elana Lagerquist. StageWrite empowers youth to become actively engaged in their education and passionate about learning through the theatre arts.

ARTISTS

Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy –
professional storyteller

olivestoryteller.com

"My goal as a professional storyteller is to bring the riches of this art form into the places children gather together and to act as a resource in curriculum development for parents and teachers.
     My skills with language, my comprehension of the academic value of storytelling and understanding of child development have evolved from my work as a writer, a parent, and a teacher of English as a Second Language to adults.
     But at the core of my work is the magic. Love, courage, honesty, fidelity and hope are what I try to bring forward from the heart. Through beauties, beasts, fairies, peddlers and creatures of the earth, the child listener finds her deepest longings and most enormous questions touched in an intimate moment between adult and child."

Twenty years and thousands of classroom hours later these words are still true. Now a performing and teaching artist, I tell to students from preschool to college. I have been an artist-in-residence in an urban middle school of a thousand students since 1990, and in a K-8 private school since 1989. I speak at conferences, teach writing workshops, and mentor adults in my class "Find Your Own Storytelling Voice". My understanding of the power of story has grown branches, flowered, and released seeds to the wind.

Doris Feyling –
professional storyteller

Doris Feyling, storyteller, works as the resident storyteller at a public school in San Francisco . She tells stories at assisted living facilities, nursery schools, and after-school programs. She tells folktales, fairy tales, and scary stories from around the world. She is a featured teller at the “Fairy Festival” and the “Blueberry Festival” in Maine each summer. Doris has been described as “bringing magic into the classroom. She has an infinite talent for using the spoken word to weave tales”… (Jean Robertson, principal Grattan School )

Jorge Argueta – author

jorgueargueta.com

Jorge Tetl Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bi-lingual children’s books have received numerous awards. His poetry has appeared in anthologies and textbooks. He won the America ’s Book Award, among other awards for his first collection of poems for children, A Movie in My Pillow. He was the Gold Medal Award winner in the 2005 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) for Moony Luna/Luna, Lunita Lunera. His other works for children include Xochitl and the Flowers, 2003 America ’s Award Commended Title; Trees are Hanging from the Sky, Zipitio, Talking with Mother Earth, The Little Hen in the City and The Fiesta of the Tortillas.

A native Salvadoran and Pipil Nahua Indian, Jorge spent much of his childhood in rural El Salvador . He feels that everybody is capable of writing, especially young children who are natural poets.

Jane Wattenberg –
illustrator/author

janewattenberg.com

Jane lives in San Francisco where she is a photographer, and lives on a hill with her family when she’s not traveling. Jane is an urban farmer; she raises chickens, bees, ducks, an occasional goat or emu. Retold and illustrated by Jane: The Duck and the Kangaroo, Never Cry Wolf, Henny Penny, Author Lola M. Schaefer & Illustrated by Jane : This Is The Rain, and Author & Illustrator Jane: Mrs. Mustard’s Name Games

Kathryn Otoshi –
author/illustrator

kokidsbooks.com

Kathryn Otoshi is an award-winning writer & illustrator living in the Bay Area. Books she’s written and illustrated include: What Emily Saw, Simon & the Sock Monster, One – winner of 10 nationwide awards, and her upcoming book, Zero. Books she has illustrated only include: Marcello the Movie Mouse, The Saddest Little Robot, and Maneki Neko: The Tale of the Beckoning Cat.
Kathryn has been a guest speaker and panelist at many conferences. She is currently working with Facing History & Ourselves, to reach out to schools and the community to encourage character building assets in our youth.

Stage Write / Elana Lagerquist

Building Literacy through Theatre

stagewrite.org

StageWrite empowers youth to become actively engaged in their education and passionate about learning through the theatre arts.  We employ dramatic activities to involve young people in reading, writing, speaking, and listening as a holistic and meaningful communication process. Through the communal art of theatre, young people build skills in creative expression, collaboration and critical thinking: all necessary components of becoming literate and engaged members of an equitable society.

Co-founder Elana Lagerquist, Executive Director

Elana Lagerquist is a teacher and teaching artist in San Francisco. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master's degree in Educational Theatre from New York University. She received her multiple subjects teaching credential with Cross-cultural, Language and Academic Development (CLAD) emphasis through San Francisco State 's Muir Alternative Teacher Education program in 1997. She has taught second and third grade at Alvarado, John Swett, and Sunset Elementary Schools and has been a tenured teacher with the San Francisco Unified School District. While in New York pursuing her master's degree, Elana worked with The Creative Arts Team as a teaching artist in the New York City public schools as a part of the Annenberg Challenge grant for school reform through the arts. Elana has presented staff development workshops for artists and teachers at various seminars for arts and education organizations including Performing Arts Workshop (PAW), Young Audiences, KQED-SPARK, Arts Education Funders Collaborative (AEFC) and SFUSD arts professional development workshops, UC Berkeley Public Service Center, and the Tennessee Arts Academy . Elana serves as Diversity and Outreach Chair with the Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco. As a teacher, arts administrator, and teaching artist, Elana is dedicated to working with all students and teachers to integrate the arts into the core curricula.