It’s Monday morning, and here in New York City we’re just back from the Presidents’ Day Week break. Here, to start of the week–and post the first of the final three entries for Black History Month 2018–is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Chinua Achebe.
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This is the last Friday of Black History Month, 2018, so this is by definition the final Weekly Text for the month. I’m actually publishing this from my phone, since I am away from New York (but on an Amtrak train on my way back right this minute).
Here is a reading on Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the great men of my lifetime. You might be able to use this comprehension sheet which accompanies the reading. Finally, here is an Everyday Edit on Martin Luther King, Jr. (and you can get lots more Everyday Edits from the good people at Education World.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on Nelson Mandela. I miss him. He is someone everyone in the world should know about.
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You might find that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jazz nicely complements the post on the late, great Clifford Brown above it. “Brownie,” as his friends and colleagues called him, was a major influence in the genre and still an unmitigated joy to hear.
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Since we as a society have decided that music education is somehow superfluous to the edification of children, I don’t know whether you’ll be able to use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on spirituals. I hope so.
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This Cultural Literacy Worksheet on W.E.B. Du Bois should probably be a mainstay of any Black History Month instruction.
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If the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision isn’t something that all Americans should revere, then I don’t know what is. I’ll be the first to stipulate that it was belated. But the fact that a a working man named Oliver Brown could bring an action against the discriminatory district in which his children attended school, take it all the way to the highest court in the land, and effectively force this nation to live up to the high ideals asserted in its founding documents should inspire anyone who hears it.
So, here is an Intellectual Devotional reading on Brown v. Board of Education with a reading comprehension worksheet to use with it. This Everyday Edit on Desegregation at Central High (and you can get lots more of these from the generous proprietors of the Education World website) nicely complements this reading.
If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here, on a Wednesday morning, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Frederick Douglass. I don’t think this document requires much explanation or rationalization for use in your classroom.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Thankfully, the literature on the Harlem Renaissance is deep and wide. That said, I highly recommend historian David Levering Lewis’s When Harlem Was in Vogue as one of the standouts of what is generally a distinguished body of literature. For a more general reference book, The Black New Yorkers (as well, presumably, as its companion volume, The Black Washingtonians, with which I am less familiar) is also excellent.
For my part, I offer this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Harlem Renaissance, which is, as these things are, a short introduction to the topic.
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Yesterday, I missed work on account of illness, so this morning I make haste to get up blog posts for African American History Month, which continues for a little over two more weeks. Here is a Cultural Literacy exercise on the Black Arts Movement. These Cultural Literacy worksheets are short exercises designed to introduce students to a subject of idea and to briefly define it for them. If you want to take your students deeper into the history and personnel of the Black Arts Movement, this page from BlackPast.org is a good place to start.
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