A book signing event and a dinner with selected students are also scheduled. Mt. Sinai Road is free and open to the public. Poetry Power will continue through April 9, when poet, painter, illustrator, author and storyteller Ashley Bryan is scheduled for a similar day-long session. To be able to bring these two distinguished African-American authors to our school is really something exciting for the kids. It's a real treat.
Poetry is a powerful means to communicate the human spirit.
Her 1978 collection of poems, Honey I Love and Other Live Poems, has become a modern-day classic. The National Council of Teachers of English named Greenfield the recipient of its Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children in 1997 for her life's work. In addition to presenting classes on poems, including a focus on the duo's separate works, the teachers have used poetry for lessons on sequencing, word parts, nouns, verbs, creative writing and other skills. The school presents closed-circuit broadcast of poetry performed by classes twice a week. School assemblies are dedicated once a month to story and poem performances.