On Dec 4th, I did a zoom presentation for the Lecture Series sponsored by the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba. Here’s the recording. Many thanks to CUCS!
Standoff: Video presentation
Tag: scholastic
Nash Holos interview about Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy
More pics and feedback for World Read Aloud Day
Teacher feedback: Thank you so much for once again joining us at Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, CT, for World Read Aloud Day! We are so grateful for the time you took from your busy schedule to meet with us. Our students devour your books and have been writing historical fiction themselves. Your presentation was so supportive of what the English teachers are teaching right now-it was perfect timing!
More WRAD pics
This is a pic from my WRAD presentation with Pioneer MS in Plymouth MI. I loved the opportunity to read to the students as they were having lunch. Good questions and lots of connections.
WRAD — eleven schools!
I did ten virtual WRAD sessions today, plus the one on Monday night with Tashkent International School. Fantastic students, fantastic questions. Great organizing by educators! The top pic is from Highland MS, Libertyville IL. The bottom is from Allendale MS, MI. The bottom pic shows two books that I think students will enjoy reading. Sheryl Azzam’s Red Flags and Butterflies, and Chrystyna K. Lucyk-Berger’s Swimming With Spies.
“You see me . . .” The Teaching Librarian
Thank you, Danny and Martha. It was such a pleasure to write this personal reflection for The Teaching Librarian magazine.
Full article here.
Thank you, Helen Kubiw!
Dear Helen, your review of Standoff on CanlitforLittleCanadians is a balm to my soul. This is my favourite quote: “Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch knows how to tell a story of immense tragedy by pairing it with resilience, affection, and hope.”
OLASC! Scholastic booth on Thursday!
Riverside Elementary and why we read
Thank you, Kristin and Beth for the opportunity to speak with 5th grade Riverside Elementary students last Friday. This new crop of 5th grade students were as inquisitive, enthusiastic and respectful as always. I loved the opportunity to talk about how I wrote Making Bombs for Hitler and why I write on such serious topics for a young audience.
Signing at the OLA SuperConference
I’ll be signing Standoff at the OLA Superconference in Toronto on Jan 29th. If you’re at the conference, please drop by to say hello! (and to get a signed book!)
