Save Our Youth presents a reading with young writers from Eastside Memorial High School at Resistencia Books

By Matt, submitted on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 5:45pm

Start: Dec 10 2011 4:00 pm

4pm Saturday December 10, 2011

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Save Our Youth presents a reading with young writers

from

Eastside Memorial High School

under the direction of English teacher Susan Hauff

and

Lanier High School

under the direction of English teacher Ashley Card

The students are 10th graders.

Their autobiographical essays/memoirs are about significant moments in their lives that have made an impact on who they are today.

Many of the writings are very moving, ranging anywhere from comical to tragedy. The students at both schools are predominantly Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Black.

Susan Diaz has been a teacher for 17 years and currently works at Eastside Memorial High School. This fall 2011 semester, she collaborated with her former student, Ashley Card, who currently works at Lanier High School, to do an across school peer edit using Google Docs. The students at both schools uploaded their personal stories to Google Docs and have been helping each other improve their essays via the internet. The Lanier HS students are 10th grade Pre-AP students