Teacher Workshop: Telling Your Story
Funding for this workshop is provided by the Birmingham Jewish Foundation
- FREE
- Registration REQUIRED
- Open to all AL teachers
- Substitute reimbursement will be paid up to $100
- 4 Hours of PD credits available on PowerSchool
- Certificate of Completion provided
- Breakfast provided
- Limited to 25 teachers
In this workshop, educators will learn how to lead their students to identify and develop our most compelling stories — braiding memory, family history, insight and experience into a narrative that’s both personal and accessible, honest and imaginative. We will discuss what makes memoir work, how it goes beyond straightforward autobiography, and how it can such an effective tool for allowing students to explore themselves and their pasts.
ABOUT Menachem Kaiser
Menachem Kaiser is a writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, New York, BOMB, Vogue, and elsewhere.
ABOUT Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
WINNER OF THE 2022 SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In 2015 I learned that my grandfather–whom I had never met, and about whom I knew nearly nothing–had tried for thirty years to reclaim or at least be compensated for property that had belonged to his family before World War 2. I decided I would take up his cause.
I then learned about a heretofore unknown relative–my grandfather’s closest relative to have survived the war, in fact–who, on account of a secret diary he had written in the camps, has become a semi-mythological figure among Silesian treasure hunters.
It’s hard to summarize. Plunder is this story, these stories, it’s a lovely mess.
POWERSCHOOL
PowerSchool Section # 483247
Course Title: UABRIC-Telling Your Story
PS Registration Link
https://alsde.truenorthlogic.com/ia/empari/learning2/registration/presentRegistrationDetails/483247
PARKING
Parking is available in the deck behind Temple Emanu-El. Access is from the alley off Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. South (21st Street South).
Please park on level 2 or above.
