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Duke Ellington (Presumably Facetiously) on Jazz and Your Daughter’s Disreputable Boyfriend

Posted on February 13, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Jazz was like the kind of man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.”

Duke Ellington

Quoted in NY Times Magazine, 12 September 1965

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Everyday Edit: African-American Music

Posted on February 13, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on African-American music. This is the last Everyday Edit worksheet I have that’s appropriate to post for Black History Month. However, if you’d like more of these worksheets, you can find them at Education World, where the generous proprietors of that site give away a yearlong supply of them.

If you find typos in this document, your students should fix them! That’s the point of this exercise….

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Cultural Literacy: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Posted on February 13, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in furtherance of Black History Month 2020. As you probably know, of have inferred, this is Mr. Douglass’s autobiography.

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.

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Book of Answers: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Posted on February 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

Where was The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window? In the 1964 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry, it was located in Greenwich Village, New York City.

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

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Everyday Edit: Charles R. Drew

Posted on February 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

Were you aware that Charles R. Drew, a black man, discovered that blood plasma could last over time if it were kept cool? I wasn’t until I began using this Everyday Edit worksheet on him about ten years ago. If you’d like more of these, you can find them at Education World, where you can actually take for free a whole year’s supply of them.

If you find typos in this document, fix them, for heaven’s sake! It’s an Everyday Edit worksheet….

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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Posted on February 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Go Tell It on the Mountain: The first novel (1953) of the black US writer James Baldwin (1924-1987). The book has autobiographical undertones, and the climax is the religious conversion of a 14-year-old Harlem boy. At the center of the book are the boy’s troubled relations with his stepfather, a preacher of the storefront Temple of the Fire Baptized. Aspects of the slave era and of life in a dysfunctional family are recounted in flashbacks. The phrase ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ appears in the refrain of an African-American spiritual:

‘Go, tell it on the mountain,

Over the hills and everywhere

Go, tell it on the mountain,

That Jesus Christ is born’”

Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.

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Cultural Literacy: Civil Disobedience

Posted on February 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

As is (I hope) well known, Dr. King found in civil disobedience the key to winning the struggle for dignity and basic civil rights for Americans of African descent. So, I believe I am justified in including this Cultural Literacy worksheet on civil disobedience in Mark’s Text Terminal’s observation of Black History Month 2020.

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.

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Book of Answers: Toni Morrison

Posted on February 11, 2020 | Leave a comment

“What is Toni Morrison’s real name? The author of the novels Song of Solomon (1977) and Beloved (1987) was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.”

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

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Everyday Edit: Montgomery Bus Boycott

Posted on February 11, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, it’s time for me to get out of here this afternoon. Before I go, here is and Everyday Edit worksheet on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If you and your students like this document, you can get a yearlong supply of them from the good people over at Education World.

And if you find typos in this worksheet…fix them! That’s what it’s for.

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Richard Wright, Metaphorically, on Seismic Cultural Shifts

Posted on February 11, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling.”

Richard Wright

Native Son, bk. 1 (1940)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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