Caroline Brooks DuBois has been recognized as an MNPS Teacher of the Year and a Nashville Blue Ribbon Teacher. The Places We Sleep, an NCTE Notable Book in Poetry and A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, is her debut middle-grade novel and received a Starred Review from School Library Journal. Her second middle-grade verse novel, Ode to a Nobody, is set in the backdrop of the 2020 Nashville tornados and received Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. DuBois lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and works as a teacher. Check her out at https://www.carolinebrooksdubois.com
Contact Caroline Brooke DuBois: carolinebdubois@gmail.com
Sample Programs Offered
Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
BECOME A WORLD COLLECTOR is an interactive literary arts and literacy program for young readers and writers in PreK-8th that explores words as the building-blocks, or foundation, of reading and writing. The program energizes students to explore the use of words in mentor poems and encourages students to think about building their own vocabulary in playful and experimental ways. Students will read and analyze sample poems and write their own concrete poems with well-chosen words.
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Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
POEM-ING AND THE ART OF DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE is an interactive literary arts and literacy program for young readers and writers in PreK-6th grade that encourages students to work collaboratively as “sensory detectives” to identify vivid details in a piece of mentor writing. Then, in small groups, students will hone their use of descriptive writing using their senses. The program invites students to write a descriptive color poem collaboratively and to write one independently.
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Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
NARRATIVE KNOW-HOW is an interactive literary arts and literacy program for young readers and writers in 5th-8th grade that explores the basic elements of story-telling and how to build an authentic character. The program invites students to brainstorm and imagine a character in a setting and then develop the character’s goal(s), problem(s), and solution. Students will read and analyze mentor short fiction and begin writing their own narrative.
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