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Join us for the 2nd Annual YES Prep Author Night

February 22, 2012 by Brittany Baize

By Leigh Anne Rayburn

We hope you will join us for the 2nd Annual YES Prep Author Night!

The Author Study is a three-month project that AP English Language students in the twelfth grade undertake in the spring semester. The objective is to explore one author in great depth and breadth. Students must read over 700 pages by the writer they choose, and the reading may be a collection of nonfiction, fiction, drama, poetry, and essays. They are charged with becoming fluent in that author’s style, attitude, and influence to the literary canon.

At Author Night, seniors from YES Prep Southeast, Southwest, and N orth Central come together to present their findings and converse with literarily-minded folks from around the community: not just staff members within YES, either. Last

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1,000 Words: Literacy and Art

November 11, 2011 by Tara Alcancia

The YES Prep Fine Arts 3^rd Annual Visual Arts exhibition, 1,000 Words: Literacy and Art, opens next Wednesday, November 16^th at the Houston Public Library – Central Location (Downtown). The exhibition is on view until Saturday, December 31.

1,000 Words: Literacy and Artincludes art by 6^th through 12^th grade students from YES Prep Public Schools. Middle school and high school students from YES Prep Brays Oaks, East End, Gulfton, North Central, Southeast, and Southwest participated in this visual arts exhibition. To coincide with the art exhibition being held at the Houston Public Library, students created art through a variety of mediums that relates to literacy. The young artists learned about artists that integrate text and connect to literacy in their work, and they explored

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YES Prep Fine Arts featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Science

June 10, 2011 by Tara Alcancia

yes prep student at the cockrell butterfly center at houston's museum of natural science For the second year in a row, art from YES Prep is featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciencein the Cockrell Butterfly Center(Lower Mezzanine). Middle school and high school students from East End, North Central, and Southeast had the opportunity to showcase their work in a professional museum setting.

Debbie Guelzow, an art instructor at North Central, had her students create art inspired by the children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle. Their art depicted butterflies and insects, just as Carle’s work often features insects and other animals. Manuel Munoz, also an art instructor at North Central, had his students work with watercolors to create whimsical and realistic depictions of butterflies and insects.

At East End (under the direction of Allison Weaver) and

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New Kids on the Block: Fine Arts at YES Prep Brays Oaks

May 02, 2011 by Colleen Stellato

Students at YES Prep Brays Oaks campus have been hard at work in Art Class this semester. Ms. Stellato, the new Art Instructor at Brays Oaks, has been focusing on the Elements of Art since January. After a few weeks of learning about tone, contour, and different shading techniques, it was time for the students to put all of their new artistic skills to the test with a group project: the Mystery Celebrity Portrait. Each student received a few pieces of a large poster of a celebrity, and then drew exactly what they saw on each square onto a new one. The identity of the celebrity was a secret, so the students were trying to guess who it was all the way along! Little by little, a face with its features, hair, jewelry, and clothing took form and the identity became clear….

yes prep brays oaks students create portrait of oprah winfrey