{"id":300,"date":"2016-03-14T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/?p=300"},"modified":"2016-03-14T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:30:02","slug":"africa-is-my-home-poem-collages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/2016\/03\/14\/africa-is-my-home-poem-collages\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa is My Home Poem Collages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edinger House has just completed a study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. One element of our work was with Ms. Edinger’s book,\u00a0Africa is My Home: A Child of the Amistad<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0It\u00a0\u00a0features a group of people who were taken captive, resisted, and returned home to their country of Sierra Leone as free people, the story of the Amistad rebellion\u00a0as seen\u00a0through the eyes of one of the children aboard, Sarah Margru Kinson. This was followed by\u00a0a look at\u00a0poems responding to enslavement by Phillis Wheatley<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0George Moses Horton<\/a>\u00a0(after learning about him through\u00a0Don Tate\u2019s Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton<\/a>),\u00a0<\/em>James Monroe Whitfield<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<\/em>Langston Hughes<\/a>, \u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Elizabeth Alexander<\/a>\u00a0before the children began crafting their own. Some of these are\u00a0found poems using words and phrases from Ms. Edinger’s book while others used different forms. The finished poems were then presented as collages. The results below are powerful indeed. (Click on any individual collage for a larger image.)<\/p>\n

\"Adia\"<\/a> \"Aidan\"<\/a> \"Ashwin\"<\/a> \"Carter\"<\/a> \"eloise\"<\/a> \"Gus\"<\/a> \"Jordan\"<\/a> \"Katalin\"<\/a> \"Logan\"<\/a> \"narayan\"<\/a> \"Nila\"<\/a> \"Noemie\"<\/a> \"sadie\"<\/a> \"Sam\"<\/a> \"theo\"<\/a> \"Vivian\"<\/a> \"Will\"<\/a> \"Zach\"<\/a> \"Zoe\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edinger House has just completed a study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. One element of our work was with Ms. Edinger’s book,\u00a0Africa is My Home: A Child of the Amistad.\u00a0It\u00a0\u00a0features a group of people who were taken captive, resisted, and returned home to their country of Sierra Leone as free people, the story of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/grade4projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}