Category: black history month
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Teaching Rebus Poetry with Phillis Wheatley-FREE Lesson Resources
If you like this lesson check out other lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers starting at $1.00! The term “rebus” is from LATIN and means “by means of objects.” [Etymonline] An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley (1773)[All Poetry] THE poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse To show th’…
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“Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment.” -Mary McLeod Bethune All products are available on my Teachers Pay Teacher Store. If you click a link on this site and make a purchase I will be compensated. Thank you for your support! Library Skills: Locating Fiction Books PRICE: Free Biography Project-Robert…
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Black History Research Projects by Keeper of Knowledge
All links go to Teachers Pay Teachers. If you make a purchase I will be compensated. Thank you for your support! FREE: Biography Project-Robert Smalls: American Slave, Navy Captain, and Congressman-Robert Smalls was one of the most famous Americans of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Yet he remains unknown to the majority of the…
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Book Review: “Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680” by John Thorton
Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 by John Thorton is the most informative book I have read on the history of West African Slavery! In history books it is made to appear that Western Europeans just went in and took over-that didn’t happen until the later part of the…
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Book Review: Sir E.A. Thompson Wallis Budge’s “Egyptian Religion Of Resurrection Osiris” is the book to read to learn about the cultures of Africa
It seems strange to think a book about the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris would provide an invaluable resource for those of us whose ancestors were enslaved and were part of creating the modern nations of the Americas and Caribbean. But Budge’s Egyptian Religion Of Resurrection Osiris [Amazon] book does just that! In his research to…
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