Faith's Enclave News -

Not being the kind to rest on my laurels, or rest on anything come to think of it, I have a new project. Not the Jane Yellowrock, SKINWALKER, project. (Though I am on page 225 and totally loving it!) But a new project for kids.

South Carolina, the state I grew up in and went to school in, has the worst dropout rate in the nation. Yep. We hold 50 fingers on that one. And our test scores are close to that lovely record, near last.

I am designing a program that will get commercially published writers into the school system to galvanize kids and get them to write. Because if you write, then you have to read. And if read, then you have to become a better student. One leads to the other like a dog on a trail.

Three days this week and three days next week a playwright friend and I are in the local school system, (the best in the state) testing the program.  And it seems to be working. Freaking amazing! Will it work in the schools with failing test scores? I don't know.

So far (day 2) the student have already designed 2 characters as a group, to see how it is done, and desigend 2 characters alone to put that into practice. Today we read a play built around the characters they designed as a group.

This is fun!

And I still got 5 pages of Jane written. Whoowhoowhoo!

Faith