“No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.”
For our high school event on Friday, October 3, Dr. Inger Brody, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a popular teacher and lecturer, will speak with high school students about Jane Austen's legacy. Her talk will be followed by a Power Point "hike" through the English countryside where Austen wrote and set her novels. Students will then tour displays. Following lunch (on us) students will participate in a writing workshop. Friday's program will start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 1:30 p.m. Students who write the top three essays will be honored at our Sunday brunch and will be awarded prizes. Our national organization sponsors the J. David Grey Young Writers' Workshop and the Joan Austen-Leigh Prizes.
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If you are a high school teacher and would like to learn more about our special high school event on October 3, 2008, please register to be on our email contact list. The Greater Chicago Region chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America is committed to promoting the scholarship and the reading of Jane Austen’s novels and juvenilia in Chicago area schools. If you have a school to suggest for our outreach reading program, or are a teacher with a plan for a creative approach to teaching Jane Austen, please contact our Education Outreach Chair at jasnagcr@sbcglobal.net. In the past, outreach grants helped develop school library collections of Austen novels, criticism, and support materials about Austen’s exciting Regency period, including military and social history. We have sent speakers into the schools, and we have supported essay contests for high school students and funded the writing and performance of plays based on Austen novels. |
In celebration of our hosting the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, October 2–5, 2008, we are planning a free program and writing workshop for high school students of the greater Chicago region.