Dear SSAWW members,

As we continue to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, I want to invite you to an exciting virtual event on April 17, 6:30-8 pm ET. This is an interactive discussion in which K-12 and college teachers will present and reflect on their creative and pedagogical work on Wheatley Peters. This event is the culmination of a project for teachers of which I am the lead humanities scholar, “Learning from Legacies of Phillis Wheatley Peters.” Cosponsored by the National Writing Project and Humanities Texas, “Learning from Legacies of PWP” is one part of the larger initiative “The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters.”

In “Learning from Legacies of PWP,” Sarah Ruffing Robbins and I have been working with a spectacular group of teachers who have immersed themselves in Wheatley Peters’ life and poetry and have created outstanding lesson plans, some for college students, some for K-12 students; the latter can easily be adapted to college-level courses You are certain to be energized by these participants and their work, to get a sense of the resources available at “The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters” website, and to come away with new ideas about teaching and researching PWP.

Go to this link for fuller information and to register for the April 17 event:

https://wheatleypetersproject.weebly.com/overview.html

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April 2024

Mapping and Visiting the Phillis Wheatley Peters Project Online

I hope to see many of you on April 17.

Warmly,

Sandy Zagarell

SSAWW President 2018-2021