African American Read-In at Crisfield Academy and High School

CAHS instructional facilitator Karen Smith wrote, “This year Crisfield Academy & High School students in the 8th and 9th grades are going to have the opportunity to participate in the African American Read-In. CAHS’s African American Read-In (AARI) will take place at the school at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, February 19, 2016.

During the month of February, schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and professional organizations, and interested citizens are urged to make literacy a significant part of Black History Month by hosting an African American Read-In. Plans are underway at CAHS to host the event for interested students. People from within the Somerset County Public Schools Community will read a selection from a favorite African American poet or author. Students are being encouraged to read selections or to develop a related presentation that can be shown.

Students who participate will be entered into a drawing for a book by an exciting new African American writer, Jason Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds is an author of four books. He is the author of critically acclaimed When I Was the Greatest, for which he was the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent; the Coretta Scott King Honor books Boy in the Black Suit and All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely); and As Brave as You, his middle grade debut.”