Date |
Day |
Time |
Location |
Contact |
Public |
Description of Activity |
1/23 |
Sunday |
5:00 PM |
Sylva |
Mary Adams
828-227-3930
|
No |
Potluck to meet the author for participants and university community |
1/24 |
Monday |
8:00-9:30AM |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
High School Creative Writing Class
Luis: Read and guide students in
writing assignment
|
1/24 |
Monday |
AM |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
High School students
Luis: Speak about his experience
with gangs & writing (gang & violence prevention)
|
1/24 |
Monday |
PM |
Cherokee |
|
No |
Lunch, Tour *, Rest (optional) |
1/24 |
Monday |
3:30-4:30 PM |
Cherokee Central School Teachers |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
Luis: Speak about his experience with gangs & writing (gang & violence
prevention with question/answer
session)
|
1/25 |
Tuesday |
8:00-9:30 AM |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
High School Creative Writing Class from previous day
Luis: Continue w/writing assignment,
read/discuss writing from previous day
|
1/25 |
Tuesday |
10:30-11:30 |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
Elementary School (grades 5-6)
Luis: Read and answer questions
|
1/25 |
Tuesday |
PM |
Cherokee |
|
No |
Lunch, Tour *, Rest (optional) |
1/25 |
Tuesday |
This pm |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
High School Students
Luis: Speak about his experience
with gangs & writing (gang & violence prevention)
|
1/26 |
Wed |
8:00-8:45 |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
7th grade students
Luis: Speak about his experience
with gangs & writing (gang & violence prevention)
|
1/26 |
Wed |
8:45-9:30 |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
8th grade students
Luis: Speak about his experience
with gangs & writing (gang & violence prevention)
|
1/26 |
Wed |
AM |
Cherokee |
Deborah Foerst 828-497-9205 |
No |
*Tour of Cherokee and organizations (such as the newly opened youth and
teen center) optional |
1/26
|
Wed
Miercoles
|
7:30 PM
|
Coulter Recital Hall, WCU, Cullowhee
|
Mary Adams
828-227-3930
|
Yes |
Reading and Question /Answer session
(we're planning a pizza get together
before the reading (around 5:30); the elementary education students will
be there and may talk to him informally)
Lectura pública y una sesion
de preguntas y repuestas
|
1/27 |
Thurs |
AM |
Scotts Creek School, Jackson County |
Nancy McMurray, Linda Griffiths 586-5111
Call 586-4328 for directions
|
No |
Grades 6-8 8:30 - 9:30
read poetry; at risk issues; cultural diversity
Grades 3-5 9:45 - 10:45 read poetry;
talk about character ed. and cultural diversity
|
1/27 |
Thurs |
PM |
Blue Ridge Union School (pre-K thru 12). |
Linda Griffiths lg7@hotmail.com
586-5111
Call 743-2646 for directions
No
|
High school English teachers; journalism class 1-3 PM
Focus on his writing
|
|
1/28 |
Friday |
AM |
Smoky Mountain Elementary(?) |
Linda Griffiths lg7@hotmail.com
586-5111
call 586-2177 for directions
|
No |
9:30 - 10:15 3rd grade classroom
10:30 - 11:15 7th &
8th grade students
|
1/28 |
Friday |
12:30 - 3:00 PM |
Aspire in Haywood County |
Helen Melina, Aspire (Juvenile facility)
Work 1-828-454-5008
FAX: 1-828-452-7701
Call her for directions
|
No |
(Juvenile School for troubled youth serves 7 western counties); Helen Melina
(runs Aspire) 1-828-454-5008 (work). Parish Hall of Grace Church. 12 - 16
kids. Combine talk with focus group or writing activity (prefers the latter).
Brown A-Frame wood and brick church on Haywood Street. |
1/28 |
Friday |
5:30 PM |
University Club or Faculty Center, WCU |
Mary Adams |
No |
optional |
1/29 |
Saturday
Sabado
|
11:00 |
City Lights Books, Jackson County |
Jennifer Ross, (828) 586-9499; Toll-free (888) 853-6298 |
Yes |
Story hour
Hora pública de cuentos
|
1/29 |
Saturday
Sabado
|
2:00 - 5:00 |
The Writer's Workshop, St. Justin's Center, 92 Haywood Rd.(part of St. Lawrence's
Church, across from The Civic Center Asheville) |
Karen Ackerman,
(828-254-8111)
|
Yes |
Writer's workshop 2 - 5. With Alan Wolfe. .
Taller de escrituras.
|