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There is a school in the Bronx called Lorraine Hansberry Academy, and an elementary school in St. Albans, Queens, New York, named after Hansberry as well. On the eightieth anniversary of Hansberry's birth, Adjoa Andoh presented a BBC Radio 4 program entitled Young, Gifted and Black in tribute to her life.
Cena Christopher Draper (b. October 17, 1907 in Warrensburg, Missouri, United States, d. October 8, 1986, Stuart, Florida) was an American writer and playwright who wrote novels and numerous plays for children. Her writing mirrored her childhood growing up in the 1920s in Warrensburg, Missouri, the fourth generation to do so in Warrensburg.
In reading "The Princess and the Pea," for example, Meskell had asked her students to place pictures of four scenes from the fairy tale in the right order to tell the story – using a skill known ...
Gastón Suárez (born January 27, 1929 – November 6, 1984) was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. Suárez was born in the town of Tupiza in the southern part of Potosí, Bolivia in 1929. A self-taught writer, Suárez abandoned elementary school at third grade, following a traumatizing event in which his teacher suffered an epilepsy attack ...
Published. January 1, 1978 – March 3, 2020. Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar. Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020 ...
The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of them children, as well as 31 of the attackers.
Theatre in education (TIE), originating in Britain in 1965, is the use of theatre for purposes beyond entertainment. It involves trained actors/educators performing for students or communities, with the intention of changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. [1] [2] Canadian academics Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton describe TIE as ...
Definition. Children's and adolescent literature is literature that is aimed at children and adolescents. This type of literature includes a part of popular oral culture, such as lullabies, proverbs and stories, as well as stories, plays, poems and writings in the field of religion, social knowledge, science and its application, art and entertainment that writersو Poets and songwriters create ...