Demopolis High School Talent Show

Demopolis High School will hold its 4th annual talent show on Thursday, February 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium. 12 student acts will perform, ranging from guitar solos to singing to interpretative dance. Solid Revolution, a local band composed of a DHS teacher and 3 students, will entertain the audience during breaks. We want to invite representatives from the BBAI advisory committee as well as all the pilot schools and state Board of Education members. Please email me at lgibbs@demopoliscityschools.org if you would like to come so that we can admit you free of charge and recognize you at the show. Our talent show winners will perform at our next community audit in March.

Arts Pilot and Advisory Committee Workshop, Feb. 3, 2007

Please make sure that your pilot school has representation at this workshop. You may use your grant funds to pay the registration and travel. The workshop will be at Byrd Elementary School in Selma. This location was selected because it is fairly central to the majority of pilot schools. The intent was to make travel as easy as possible for the group. As of today, only 5 out of 12 of the pilot schools have registered.

Advisory committee members are encouraged to participate. Martha has space for 20 more participants. You may send a team of teachers--any grade level/subject.

Please move this request to your priority list and contact Martha Lockett ASAP at
334-396-2432.

Sara Wright

Arts Pilot and Advisory Committee Workshop, Feb. 3, 2007

Please make sure that your pilot school has representation at this workshop. You may use your grant funds to pay the registration and travel. The workshop will be at Byrd Elementary School in Selma. This location was selected because it is fairly central to the majority of pilot schools. The intent was to make travel as easy as possible for the group. As of today, only 5 out of 12 of the pilot schools have registered.

Advisory committee members are encouraged to participate. Martha has space for 20 more participants. You may send a team of teachers--any grade level/subject.

Please move this request to your priority list and contact Martha Lockett ASAP at
334-396-2432.

Sara Wright

WHAT: SuperSaturday workshop

The Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts
invites you to come explore

DRAMA: THE MISSING LINK TO LITERACY

WHAT: SuperSaturday workshop
WHO: Karen Erickson is a master teaching artist working with schools in arts assessment, curriculum development, drama/theater education, integration, long range and partnership planning. Recently, she completed a term as president of the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education and currently serves as Chair of the National Governing Board of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. The author of 5 books on drama education, she has also co-authored curriculum, assessment, and fine arts resources for the Illinois State Board of Education. (www.creativedirections.org)
WHEN: Saturday, February 3, 2006
Registration 8:30-9:00
Workshop 9:00-2:30

COST: $25 per teacher—PO or check due at registration

WHERE: Byrd School Cafeteria, 625 Lapsley Street, Selma, AL (Call if you need directions)

WHY: Discover how to build vocabulary skills, improve reading comprehension, and expand writing techniques through drama integration. Participants explore ways to transform language arts lessons into active, student-centered explorations of story elements, word choice, fluency, comprehension, writing, and characterization through drama strategies such as expressive movement and character development. Participants learn about activities that develop teamwork and creative problem solving skills in students through activities that help improve grammar, predicting, adding detail to writing assignments. Karen Erickson builds upon her years of teaching reading, writing, speaking, and listening to share activities that can be adapted to any grade, 1st-12th.

DETAILS: Lunch is furnished.
Receive resources for your classroom.
Dress comfortably—you’re going to be moving

Enrollment is limited to 4 participants per school. If space remains after Dec. 15, schools will be invited to register additional participants first come, first served.

The attached reservation form must be returned NO LATER THAN December 15, 2006. Please FAX your registration as soon as possible to 1-334-271-5392. Call if you need info-1-334-396-2432. Hope to see you on the 4thth!
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Childrens Literature Related to the Art

I came across this list from our days as an an Arts Pilot Site. We looked for children's literature which featured the arts. All of these titles were purchased from Amazon.com. It has been several years now, so prices may have changed.

Meet the Orchestra Ann Hayes, Karmen Thompson (Illustrator); $6.00

Clara Schumann : Piano Virtuoso Susanna Reich; $12.60 - Quantity

Our Marching Band Lloyd Moss, Diana Cain Bluthenthal (Illustrator); $12.79

Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) Mike Venezia; $9.75

Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) Mike Venezia; $6.95

Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) Mike Venezia; $9.75

George Handel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) Mike Venezia; $6.95

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) Mike Venezia (Illustrator); $9.75

Zin! Zin! Zin! : A Violin (Caldecott Honor Book, 1996, No 2) Lloyd Moss, Marjorie Pricema(Illustrator); $12.80

Summertime : From Porgy and Bess George Gershwin, et al; $13.56

The Sea King's Daughter : A Russian Legend Aaron Shepard, Gennady Spirin (Illustrator); $13.60

The Remarkable Farkle McBride John Lithgow, C. F. Payne (Illustrator); $12.80

Berlioz the Bear Jan Brett; $6.99

How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum Lois Wyse, et al; $10.36

Degas and the Little Dancer : A Story About Edgar Degas Laurence Anholt; $11.96

The Farewell Symphony Anna Harwell Celenza, et al; $19.95

The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera Shahrukh Husain, et al; $13.97

A synopsis of many of the books related to music can be found in the October 2001 issue of the Music Educators Journal, pages 70-71.

Workshop follow-up

Good teachers know to have their students practice a new concept immediately. So, while you are reading this, please take a moment to make a comment. Just click the link that says "Comments" at the bottom of this post. Let us something about this two-day experience--an idea you took home, something you saw or heard that touched you, or whatever else you may be inclined write about.

As you select the people back home that would you feel would be good to post, just e-mail me (buck@talladega-cs.net) their name(s), and most importantly the e-mail address. If for some reason you e-mail me and it bounces back to you, I apologize up front. I have come home to find we are having some connectivity problems somewhere between our server and BellSouth, so e-mail has been up and down. If you get a bounce-back, give it another try, or you can call me with the info and just give me the information over the phone. My direct number is (256) 315-5617.

Sara--Thanks for bringing us all together, for structuring this superb two-day event, and for the leadership in making this arts initiative a reality.