Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation collaborated with Manchester Academic Charter School teachers and students to create five Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks books. The school itself is an historic adaptation of a Victorian double house on Liverpool Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The students were shown photographs of architectural details and asked to play an Eye-Spy game to find those details in the buildings on the street. Then they pretended that they were the detail. In that "personification mode", the children told the teachers what they felt, what they saw, and what or who they looked like. Those ideas were used to generate the poetry and art found in the following student books.
The
Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
Written and illustrated
by Mrs. Yoder's Kindergarten Class
Assisted by Dr. Ann B. Canning, Waynesburg
University
The
Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
Written and illustrated
by Mr. Kuban's Second Grade Class
Assisted by Louise Sturgess and Mary Ann Eubanks, PHLF
The
Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
Written and illustrated
by Mr. Hall's Fourth Grade Class
Assisted by Louise
Sturgess and Mary Ann Eubanks, PHLF
The
Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
Written and illustrated
by Ms. McCandless's Fifth Grade Class
Assisted by Louise
Sturgess and Mary Ann Eubanks, PHLF
The
Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
Written and illustrated
by Mr. Henderson's and Mr.Basel's Sixth Grade Class
Assisted by Louise
Sturgess and Mary Ann Eubanks, PHLF