For the past 12 years, I've spent the end of May packing away classroom materials and struggling to survive the last few weeks of school with a room full of antsy adolescents. This was my first year as a District Literacy Coach, and I have to say the end to the school year was very … Continue reading Hello, Summer!
Category: Writing Process
So what’s this book about, anyway?
In August, 1936, Rainey Bethea, a twenty-six year old African American from Virginia, was executed for the crime of rape in Owensboro, Kentucky. Hundreds of reporters and a crowd estimated at 20,000 people descended on the city of Owensboro to witness the execution, due in no small part to the fact that the sheriff in … Continue reading So what’s this book about, anyway?
Amy Bellamy, Author 