How We Have Told Our Stories by NYRIE JENKINS-JACKSON https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16 Grade 5-8 students will engage with media that depicts various ways people have passed down histories/stories from generation to generation. en-us 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC 2023-02-26 07:14:45 UTC hello@padlet.com The Reading Room: For Teachers/Librarians nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030616 Word! The African American Oral Tradition and its Rhetorical Impact on American Popular Culture by J. Hamlet. Read this scholarly article on the link between African and African American oral traditions and its importance to popular culture. K-12 students need to understand the significance of this traditional historical connection.
Hamlet, J. (2011). Word! The African American Oral Tradition and its Rhetorical Impact on American Popular Culture. Black History Bulletin, 74(1), 27-31. 


]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030616 Rap music and its ties to African oral tradition nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030617 Artists like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Tupac, Nas, the Sugar Hill Gang have used words/poetry to "spit" fast lyrics depicting life in inner cities, police brutality, poverty, but more importantly, the celebrations of life, family and traditions in the African American culture.  Kendrick Lamar/J. Cole image courtesy of https://i.ytimg.com/vi/okF5gOTX9uM/maxresdefault.jpg via YouTube.com images.]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030617 Protest art/sculptures nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030618 Another form of storytelling told through art: posters, movements like Black Lives Matter, and sculptures like The Fearless Girl, sculpted by Kristen Visbal tell us what it means to be powerful women and stand up for our rights. Photo courtesy of www.law.com via YouTube.com images.]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030618 Books to Consider nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030619 The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mordicai-gerstein/the-first-drawing/

The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux by Emily Arnold McCully

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/search/?sf=r&q=the+secret+cave


]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030619 Books to Consider nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030620 A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
The True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac.

Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father, a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood, acting with careful deliberation, determination, and bravery, which eventually earned him his proud new name: Sitting Bull.
https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Called-Slow-Paperstar-Book/dp/069811616X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=U8FQDZAGOMNM&keywords=a+boy+called+slow&qid=1572849131&sprefix=a+boy+called+%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1

An ALA Notable Book

"Being named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this protagonist: he grew up to be Sitting Bull. Bruchac's sensitively told story of Sitting Bull's coming-of-age reassures young boys that success comes through effort, not birth." —Booklist ]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030620 Books to Consider nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030621 A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee by Ted Wood and Wanbli Numpa Afraid of Hawk.
A young Lakota describes the commemorative journey marking the centennial of the massacre of his ancestors in December 1890. It's the fifth year that Native Americans and others still ``in pain from Wounded Knee'' have retraced the last 150 miles walked by Big Foot and his people. Now eight, Wanbli Numpa joins in the six-day ``Big Foot Memorial Ride.'' Though the killing rigors of the original journey are not fully reenacted—these travelers ride horses, campsites are set up by helpers in trucks, and Wanbli Numpa takes a needed day of rest midway—the grueling discomforts and dangers are real in the subzero weather. Many goals are achieved (the boy earns his first eagle feather); each day is dedicated to remembering a group: children, the elderly, the ill in body or spirit, women, ancestors; and in the spirit of peace, the event as a whole is seen as mending ``the sacred hoop of the world'' broken by the massacre. 

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/search/?sf=r&q=a+boys+becomes+a+man+at+wounded+knee

Grade Level: 4-6
Publisher: Walker & Co (September 1, 1992)

 ]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030621 Books to Consider nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030622 Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
Every design has a name and means something in the powerful past and present richness of the Black tradition.
Mama’s and Great-Grammaw’s gentle fingers weave the design, and their lulling voices weave the tale, as they braid their children’s hair into the striking cornrow patterns of Africa.

Originally published: 1979
Author: Camille Yarbrough
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Carole Byard
Awards: Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators

http://www.camilleyarbrough.com/nana-camille-yarbrough/
]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030622 Cave Paintings from around the world!! nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030623 Take a look at this website to explore the many cave paintings from early human beings. Start with one of the most famous discovery of cave paintings found by four kids in Lascaux, France moving on to Africa, Australia and Europe. Click on the YouTube videos to gain deeper knowledge about how early humans told the story of their existence and the animals they hunted. ]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030623 What do those Hieroglyphics mean? nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030624 Ancient Egyptians used pictures that represented words dating around 3,000 B.C.  This old form of writing was done on papyrus paper, tablets, and walls. Hieroglyphics were found in pyramids and tomes built for pharoahs and detailed their lives. Learn more about how to decode the pictures that represent hieroglyphics.  ]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030624 Oral Tradition of African-American slaves nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030625 The African tradition of telling of stories through song came with Africans as they traveled along the Middle Passage. As slaves, messages of freedom and escape were expressed through songs and gave them directions and landmarks to look out for along the escape route. Here's a clip of a spiritual called Roll Jordan, Roll that was featured in the motion picture 12 Years a Slave, the narrative about Solomon Northrup, a freed black man who was captured and brutally placed into slavery. ]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030625 The Use of a Tool Tradition of the American Indian nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030626 The Nakota American Indian used tools and oral traditions to pass down tribal histories from generation to generation. One tool called the winter count is a series of pictographs drawn on buffalo hide, cloth or paper that was used to remember a specific event for the year that links to other accounts within the same year, such as births, marriages, good harvest, etc. Information courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian.]]> 2019-11-04 02:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406030626 More Protest Art nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406579567 This example of protest art came from artist Shepard Fairey one year following the inauguration of Donald Trump. Photo courtesy of Shepard Fairey. ]]> 2019-11-04 22:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406579567 Fly Rap Beats Rooted in African Sounds nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406582910 Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang produced in 1980 is an old school example of rap music infused with rhythm, call and response and drum beats indicative of African music. ]]> 2019-11-04 23:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/406582910 Books to Consider nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/407495846 Have you thought about Spoken Word! Try this book out that examines a form of poetry expressed as Spoken Word called The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. 
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. 
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. 
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation
“An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost
“Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street
Review courtesy of Amazon.com



]]> 2019-11-06 15:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/407495846 Spoken Word for all of us! nlj29 https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/407868129 Here's Elizabeth Avecedo performing a spoken word piece entitled Hair. Enjoy!]]> 2019-11-07 02:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nlj29/dxwmbjivaj16/wish/407868129