Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, Celebrating Reading, and Celebrating
Writing with author Pablo Cartaya
Pablo Cartaya, an internationally acclaimed author, screenwriter, speaker, and educator visited IEYMS. Mr. Cartaya led writers’ workshop sessions with students that emphasized the importance for our students “to write the stories they would like to read.” Mr. Cartaya led reading and writing exercises where students analyzed the use of foreshadowing in writing as it pertains to the development of theme, thinking visually to write visually, and exploring books to “find the story that speaks to them as individual readers.”
In addition to facilitating writing exercises with our aspiring authors, Mr. Cartaya had an in depth book talks with students where author's craft, universal themes, and character development were analyzed in his books titled,The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, Each Tiny Spark, and The Last Beekeeper. Mr. Cartatya shared, “The students and staff at Isaac were incredible and I’m grateful to have spent the day talking about books and writing with them! It was a beautiful time spent with Isaac kids.”
