Educators
DIANE HAYNES INSPIRES YOUNG READERS AND WRITERS WITH THE POWER OF THE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND.
Educators: BOOK DIANE NOW for the 2007-2008 school year! Email janeraybooks@gmail.com with your request.
Award-winning author Diane Haynes has the presence you’d expect of a longtime theatrical performer, and her presentations ring with the authenticity that comes with having worked as a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator for the past six years. From tales of caring for everything from a magnificent frigatebird to a wolverine, to flying a floatplane through the Chilcotin Mountains, Diane’s stories have captured the imaginations of students and educators from BC to Nova Scotia. As the environment emerges to become the world’s number-one issue, her animal rescue eco-adventures have never been more powerful than right now.
DIANE’S PRESENTATIONS
Flight or Fight (grades 4-7): The making of the book; readings; oil spill animal rescue; oil spill bath slide show.
Crow Medicine (grades 4-7): The making of the book; readings; animals as messengers; wildlife center slide show.
Animal Rescue! (grades 4-7): How the author became a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator; readings from her books; wildlife center slide show; how to make your own wildlife rescue kit; how you can save animals!
Power Animal (grades 4-12): Crow Medicine story and themes; animals as messengers; guided visualization for students to discover their own “power animals;” power animal writing exercise.
Animal Writes Workshop (grades 4-12): Put your passions on the page! The author guides students through a series of activities designed to bypass the writers’-block blues and get to the heart of what’s important to each individual.
Tie Diane’s presentations to curriculum units in social studies, science, environmental studies, social justice and creative writing!
Pen or Sword? The Student Writer As SuperHero! (professional development workshop for educators): Diane talks about the myth of the hero, writing as a tool for change, and the power of the pen as an instrument of self-expression, communication, community-building and transformation. Discover exercises, activities and tools to help give young people the phone booth, the cape and the power to fly! (2 hrs; $350)
FEES*
Each one-hour presentation is $250 [+GST]. (Exception: Pen or Sword — see above.)
Combine any presentation with the hour-long Animal Writes Workshop for $375 [+GST].
* Diane will donate 10% of all speaking fees to the Haynes Scholarship for the Advancement of Animal Welfare at the University of British Columbia (click on Scholarship at the top of your screen for more information).