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Roosevelt
Celebrates
Black
History Month
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH READ ALOUD
DAY
 On
February 4th, community volunteers
read grade level
books that
were donated from the Bridgeport Board of
Education Parent Center. The books were
selected from the African American Heritage
series to support the school’s theme of
heightening cultural
awareness.
This year’s
theme
was “Creating Poetry in Our Own Words… Together
Realizing the Dream.”
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH STAFF
LUNCHEON
 On
February 11, at the Parent Center, staff,
parents, guests and selected students shared in
a traditional African American meal
that was prepared by staff members and served by
selected 6th and 8th grade students. The meal
included fried chicken, fried turkey, baked ham,
spear ribs, and chopped barbeque pork; baked
macaroni and cheese, potato salad, toss
salad, collard greens, string beans, cabbage,
and a variety of desserts including banana
pudding,
coconut pineapple cake, chocolate
cake, sweet potato pies and peach cobbler;
sweet tea, water and soda.
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH CAREER
DAY
 On
February 15, community members (bankers,
firemen, investment brokers, engineers, a
cosmetologist, a pharmacist, and a list of other
professionals, including Mayor Bill Finch)
were invited to speak to Roosevelt students. The
program began with a full course breakfast,
followed by a brief program before our guests
were escorted to the classrooms to share their
professional careers with the students. Selected
7th and 8th grade students were given the
opportunity to interview the guest speakers
after their presentations.
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH MORNING
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Daily
just after the pledge to the flag, Roosevelt
students listened to a poem recited by students
over the intercom. Later, they searched the hall
displays to find out the name of the
African-American poet. The classrooms that were
able to correctly identify the most poets from
the poems that they heard, were rewarded a prize
at the end of the month.
BLACK
HISTORY MONTH GOSPEL FEST
2011
On
the evening of  March
3, from 6:30- 8:30 pm as a culminating
activity to our month-long events, a Gospel Fest
2011 was held. Gospel music is an integral
part ofAfrican American history,
and Roosevelt School holds this annual
event in the evening to allow the participation
of both parents and the. Local church
choirs, soloists, and praise dancers performed
on stage, rendered many of the songs that are
sung in their churches.
Each
year, this event is hosted by a pastor or
minister from one of the local churches. This
year’s hostess was Elder Roberta Harris of
Jubilee Tabernacle located on the East End of
Bridgeport. | 
