A VOICE OF HER OWN: the story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky is a picture book biography of Phyllis Wheatley that would be good for grades 3-5.
It has more information than the shorter picture book biographies
which is important for school projects.
Take this sample which brings the reader into the mindset of a
slave.
“At first there was just blackness….. Then the blackness dissolved
into darkness, and the world in the creaking hold of the slave ship slid with
shadows.”
Teachers, here’s possible school assignments for Black History
Month.
Have your students write a play about how a slave would feel on one
of these ships .What smells would they encounter? What sounds? What would it
feel like to be chained up?
Have your students write poems with Phillis Wheatley as the subject.
Have your students write poems with Phillis Wheatley as the subject.
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