This residency allows students to make history come alive with their own creative ideas and writing.

Morphing between characters of multiple races, young to old, man to woman, Mike Wiley’s gripping stories enlighten and inspire audiences of every age to apply history’s lessons to gripping issues of today.

This interactive, wildly-entertaining shadow puppet show will send elementary students galumphing off to section eight-eleven–Poetry Heaven!–of the library.

Experience the 1912 voyage of the doomed Titanic through poetry, storytelling, costume pieces & photos.

A Hip Hop performance using rhythm, rhyme and repetition to teach everything from early childhood math and literacy, to the five steps of the writing process, and the career of Frederick Douglass.

Students learn creative writing using the Writing Process to structure a song written in the pattern of a well-written essay.

Using imagination to tell the story of pirates taking over a boy’s tub.

Students learn how to compose and revise poems based on texts they are studying in science, ELA or social studies.

Learn how to write new, original poems based on scenes and characters from the books your class is studying in English/language arts.

When students are transformed into immigrants to America in 1901, history comes alive through poetry and drama.