Page to Stage: Chief Sealth ninth-graders’ poetic performance

February 17, 2011 10:28 pm
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Tonight was Choices Night at Chief Sealth International High School, a chance to show off the school to potential future students and their families. One special highlight was the performance we recorded on the video you see above, featuring four classes of ninth-graders (themselves the “potential future students” just a year ago). It’s “Page to Stage,” the culmination of a literary collaboration between Book-It Repertory Theater and the Writers in the Schools program. With the guidance of language-arts teacher James MacDonald, writer-in-residence Aaron Counts, and teaching artists Gail Sehlhorst and Naho Shioya, the students wrote poems and then performed dramatic interpretations of more than 20 of those poems. According to the program for the performance, this is the 11th year that Book-It has been at Sealth. (Before tonight’s show, the poems also were performed this afternoon at the end of the regular school day.)

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