The aim is to create a shared space for teachers who wish to engage in the expansion of narratives represented in their teaching practice. Please feel free to submit content to this seed via email to holly@theorchardmontessori.com.
Readings for June 9th Lecture/Jamaican Diaspora in Brixton and influences
Kamau Braithwait
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52757/bermudas-56d2317c9465f
James Berry
Linton Kwesi Johnson
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/sonny-lettah/
Mikey Smith
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/anger-100/
The Clash
https://www.metrolyrics.com/guns-of-brixton-lyrics-the-clash.html
Roger Robinson
Historical Context: Windrush Generation / Race Relations Act / New Cross Fire / Brixton Riots / Special Patrol Group / Dub Poetry / Rudeboys: Reggae, Punk and Ska / Stephen Lawrence / Macpherson Report
Readings for June 2nd Lecture/American black poetry timeline survey
Phyllis Wheatley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143633/a-hymn-to-the-evening
Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues
https://poets.org/poem/negro-speaks-rivers
Claude McKay
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44691/america-56d223e1ac025
Angela Jackson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56156/miz-rosa-rides-the-bus
Maya Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird
Nikki Giovanni
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90180/rosa-parks
Audre Lourde
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42587/who-said-it-was-simple
bel hooks
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751/appalachian-elegy-1-6
Gil Scott Heron
(Spoken) We have a poem here, it’s called “Whitey On The Moon”
It was inspired by some whiteys on the moon
So I wanna give credit where credit is due.
Rita Dove
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43359/canary
Gwendolyn Brooks
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43320/the-ballad-of-rudolph-reed
The Beatles: Blackbird
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/blackbird-story-behind-song-beatles/
Jericho Brown
Historical Contexts: Brown V. Board of Education / Little Rock Nine / Rosa Parks / Pullman Porters / March on Washington / Jim Crow Laws/ Separate But Equal Doctrine / Moon Landing / No Knock