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Our selection for today, Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Arts! by George Ancona describes the sport, it's history, music and language of capoeiristas. Played worldwide, Capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts and game, pays homage to an African tradition. Beautifully detailed, including colorful photos, this book introduces readers to Portuguese terms woven into the text to explain how the game is played. Interesting fact: Ancona discusses the African origins and the incorporation of music to disguise to fighting skills so slave owners would think they were dancing. Also included in the book is a glossary and additional resources. 
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 Critical literacy is a strategy used to help young people think deeply about how a text is constructed. It asks the for the reader to examine language and the power of the text through purposeful questions, discussion, and writing.
It also can help students learning the counter-narrative, and to compare and contrast, especially with informational texts. Diverse cultural knowledge should also be shared to provide context and for young people to learn about additional viewpoints. Cultural artifact, multimedia, and multimodal resources can be used to provide contextual information. An example of a counter-narrative or diverse cultural knowledge is the book example in today's post. Green, Amanda Jackson. Hidden Black History : from Juneteenth to Redlining. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2021. This book discusses Black history that is often not discussed in classrooms and the 'two histories' concept. A lot of misconceptions surround Africa. Today’s post provides some of the basics to introduce information that creates a more informed approach about the continent.
Here are some quick facts: -It’s a continent of 54 countries that are diverse culturally and geographically -Africa is really, really big — about as big as the combined landmasses of China, the United States, India, Japan and much of Europe. -According to studies that screen DNA markers in different populations, the African continent has the highest level of genetic diversity in the world. According to the researchers, this makes sense since it’s the starting point for the human race. Here are the titles of the books presented in the post:
The last in the art series features achitecture.
Of the 116,242 licensed architects in the United States, just two percent are Black. Only 2,325 Black architects are building the cities and suburbs, shaping the skylines and creating the museums, housing, schools, government buildings, places of worship and any other variety of structures we live in or with every day. Today we feature Phil Freelon for leading the design team of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. We also featured MindWare Toys Keva Planks and Q-Ba-Maze 2.0 : starter stunt set to inspire our future achitechs. We hope you thought the art series was useful to you. If you have any requests for book sets and/or manipulatives on a topic, message and let us know what you'd like to see. We Are Here Lit! shares our interview with acclaimed Author, Historian, and Educator Ray Anthony Shepard. An insightful journey, Mr. Shepard will share his literacy story, his path as an Educator to a noted Author sharing the importance critical literacy plays in telling African-American historical narratives.
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