Poetry, History, Music & Movement: Mother-Son, Author-Illustrator Visits with Carole & Jeffery Weatherford

Author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator/rapper Jeffery Boston Weatherford present solo and joint presentations featuring poetry and nonfiction books that connect to the English/language arts and social studies curricula. Mixing literature, history, movement and music, our program themes span the school year, from Underground Railroad Month (September) to Juneteenth (June 19). Most programs can be adapted as virtual presentations or teacher or parent workshops. 

A TYPICAL PRESENTATION INCLUDES:

• Samples of poems or art created when we were children
• A peek inside the writing/research/art process
• Rap performance or book talk/reading of featured book(s)
• Art demo by Jeffery
• Q&A about writing, art, publishing or the featured book
• Optional writing activity (workshop or classroom only)
• Choose from themes such as social justice, S.T.E.A.M., the Harlem Renaissance, hip hop and Juneteenth.

POPULAR PROGRAMS & RELATED BOOKS

• Voices of Change: Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream and You, R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, The Roots of Rap and Rap It Up!
• Pages from the Struggle: A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin the Man Behind the March on Washington,  How Do You Spell Unfair? Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation, and You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
• S.T.E.A.M.: Before John Was a Jazz Giant, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish and Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination
• Sidewalk Chalk & Sugar Hill: Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City, Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood, Bros and Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding
• We Are Family:Me and the Family Tree, My Daddy is Everything, Me and My Mama, Grandma and Me and Kin: Rooted in Hope
• Workshops on scratchboard art and on writing rap 

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FREE RESOURCE: BLACK HISTORY BOOKS, an annotated bibliography of CBW books with lesson ideas and a table categorizing titles by grade, genre, theme or core subject.