2023 BOOK CLUB SELECTION
“Finding Me: A Memoir” by Viola Davis
This year’s book selection is Finding Me, a memoir written by award-winning actress and Upward Bound alumna Viola Davis. As part of her story, she speaks about educational opportunity programs’ role in her early life. She credits the TRIO programs with shaping her aspirations and giving her “a way out” of the abject poverty of her childhood.
The Sisterhood: Deloris Davis Grant and Dianne Davis Wright Lead Book Club Discussion of Sister Viola Davis’s Memoir, Finding Me
May 10, 2023
2022 BOOK CLUB STUDENT ESSAYS
In 2022, Deloris Davis Grant introduced an exciting feature to the year’s book club experience, a student essay challenge.
The featured book for 2022 was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984). Set in Chicago in the 1970s, Cisneros explores timely and important themes of individual identity, family and community loyalty, otherness, racial and sexual oppression, and being defined by others or defining oneself. She does this through a series of vignettes that, as she has written, “add up to tell one big story, each story contributing to the whole—like beads on a necklace.”
In 2022, Deloris Davis Grant, a co-recipient of COE’s 2018 TRIO Family Achievement Award, chaired our Book Club. Grant is an English and Drama teacher at Central Falls High School – the same school where she attended Upward Bound. During our kick-off conversation, she introduced an exciting feature to this year’s book club experience, a student essay challenge. From these prompts emerged the following student essays.
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ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
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