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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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.
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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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OK, for the third post of this Tuesday morning, you might find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gospel Music useful somewhere in your practice. Because even in this short passage, its authors found room to mention Gospel’s influence on Rock and Roll, a couple of nice complements to this short exercise are this Wikipedia article on the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe as well as this this article from Rolling Stone arguing for her inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Is there ever a time when it isn’t appropriate to raise students’ consciousness about Racism? It remains a patent blot on the American consciousness and landscape, after all. I’d like to think that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on racism will shed some light on this grave problem, even if only briefly.
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Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, which I regard as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century.
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Here is a a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jimi Hendrix for a Wednesday morning. Jimi was an idol of my crowd in high school; not to put too fine a point on it, but we wore out copies of his records, especially Electric Ladyland, a masterpiece. Did you know that at the time of his tragic, seriously untimely death, Jimi was planning to record with Miles Davis? What I didn’t know, but learned in researching these links, is that Jimi and the great drummer Tony Williams, who himself had worked extensively with Miles in his 1960s quintet, had in fact sought the participation of Paul McCartney in this enterprise.
Can you imagine?
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