| Black History from Author and Storyteller Irene Smalls | |||
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Storyteller Smalls re-creates black history in your school, with crafts, songs, music, and you as part of the show. You can get several free Black History fact sheets on Irene Smalls' Resources page. Several of her illustrated children's books teach black history effortlessly, through story and pictures. |
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Not just a month… Learn the stories of Black History from October, November, and December. Feel slave history in the touch of October’s jack Muh Lantern. Shuck trouble away at the November Cornshucking Harvest Festival. Proudly wave and dance in rags of rhythm, at the Johnkankus, America’s Ist Black Christmas celebration. Amaze at the day the sea turned Ebony and the fierce pride of Africans who would not be enslaved. |
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| 200 year old First Black Christmas celebration, The Johnkankus, based on West African Masquerade traditions. The Black Christmas celebration that traveled around the world with the African Diaspora. One of America’s first environmental (Save the Earth) holidays where everything was created out of found objects, rags, tatters and recycled materials. Irene Smalls teaches children - and their teachers - to fully re-create this authentic African-American celebration, making the costumes, hats and masks, dancing the dances and singing the songs in your own classroom or school. (You can download a free 3-page Johnkankus fact sheet on Irene Smalls' Resources page.) You can also order Black History books and storytelling cds. |
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| Slavery in America | Based on primary source slave narratives hear the voices of joy, pain and pride from authentic folk tales, factual accounts and songs. Irene Smalls explores African-American history through holidays. She introduces Slavery to children through interactive and participatory storytelling: costuming, dancing, call and response, etc. Focusing on African American history during the postcolonial period, Irene Smalls breaks stereotypes about slavery and opens new areas of discussion and exploration in her books and storytelling cds:
You can download several free Black History fact sheets on Irene Smalls' Resources page. You can also order Black History books and storytelling cds. |
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| Slavery in the South | Discover the black folk creature created to try keep black children safe. Uncover his magic. Know the African roots of the 1800’s African-American Christmas protest songs against slavery. Learn of the Ebo’s 1803 mass resistance to slavery. Learn the story of the Strawbeater, a source of self-esteem in spite of slavery’s harshness. Understand how a people made a way out of no way. Author Irene Smalls shares all this and more in her Do, See, Say Black Histories presentations. You can order Black History books and storytelling cds. (You can download several free Black History fact sheets on Irene Smalls' Resources page.) |
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| Black Thanksgiving | Corn shuckings, a late November 1800’s rural harvest celebration, the only time in enslavement when slaves could freely invite one another to attend. A vital economic activity for the slaves and farmers. Shucks were the primary source of food for the animals and used to make beds, hats, basket, etc. You can download a free Black Thanksgiving Corn shucking fact sheet on Irene Smalls' Resources page. |
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| Black Halloween | Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern by Irene Smalls
Based on African-American folktales and songs, this scary Halloween story will have you looking over your shoulder teeth chattering. A great spooky combination of a witch, a creature and magic all on Halloween. You can download a free fact sheet about this book. |
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| African Resistance to Slavery | Black Masada - Ebony Sea by Irene Smalls (book or CD) A fierce warrior peoples quest for freedom from enslavement. African resistance to slavery at any cost. Even paying the ultimate price. A true story from 1803 of group of Ebos fierce pride and dignity. An uplifting story of love and dignity. You can download a free fact sheet about this incident in African-American history. |
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