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WEEK of March 12, 2007 |
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Visiting Scholars at Brooklyn Friends by Joan Martin In late February, BFS was honored to have three Visiting Scholars who spent the entire day teaching and working with students. Mary E. Neighbour (above left), the author of Speak Right On, Dred Scott—A Novel, addressed the 8th grade and met with upper school English and history classes. An award-winning writer, Mary shared with the students her expertise on the history of slavery and the griot storytelling tradition. She herself was a captivating storyteller as she described the difficult life of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court decision bearing his name that nullified the Missouri Compromise and sparked the Civil War. Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris (above middle), the writer, director and producer of the film Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, spoke to the entire upper school after they finished viewing the conclusion of his 75-minute film, and also visited with two history classes. He spoke with students on a broad range of topics, including apartheid in South Africa, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the importance of personal storytelling as a means to one’s search for identity. Raised in the Bronx and Tanzania, Thomas is a graduate of Harvard College and teaches in the film program at Sarah Lawrence College. He will return to Brooklyn Friends on April 21 as a Judge in the Bridge film Festival. Dr. Doreen Heard (above right), director of the Florida Children’s Repertory Theatre led a workshop on Commedia Dell’ arte with 7th and 8th grade theater students and participated in the puppetry elective class. She also met with middle school theater design students, who showed her the masks they created for the children’s play she wrote, entitled The Love for Three Oranges. Dr. Heard is the recipient of the Distinguished Career in Children/Youth Theatre Award by the Florida Theatre Conference; she has taught on the college level and directed children’s theater for more than 30 years. The three visiting scholars came to BFS as invited guests of BFS faculty: art and psychology teacher Mark Buenzle for Mary Neighbour, librarian Larry Williams for Thomas Allen Harris, and science teacher Janet Villas for Doreen Heard. |
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