Foster Dickson: The "Cast Your Bucket Down" Project
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The Cast Your Bucket Down project, conducted in the 2010-2011 school year is a research-based student creative writing, blogging, and film project. As a follow-up to his "Patchwork" project for the Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship, "Cast Your Bucket Down" -- so-called for Booker T. Washington who spoke the charge "Cast your bucket down where you are!" in his now-famaous Atlanta Exposition speech of 1895 -- has students exploring the production and consumption of food in Alabama, particularly how food affects their own lives. Topics to be explored include the effects of eating out versus cooking at home, buying produce from farmers markets, participating in the 4-H club, and how food-related illness like diabetes affect families.
To read the students' twelve-week multi-author blog, which is now complete, click
here.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The Cast Your Bucket Down project, conducted in the 2010-2011 school year is a research-based student creative writing, blogging, and film project. As a follow-up to his "Patchwork" project for the Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship, "Cast Your Bucket Down" -- so-called for Booker T. Washington who spoke the charge "Cast your bucket down where you are!" in his now-famaous Atlanta Exposition speech of 1895 -- has students exploring the production and consumption of food in Alabama, particularly how food affects their own lives. Topics to be explored include the effects of eating out versus cooking at home, buying produce from farmers markets, participating in the 4-H club, and how food-related illness like diabetes affect families.
To read the students' twelve-week multi-author blog, which is now complete, click here.