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Suggested activities

• Storytelling
• poetry readings
• dramatic presentations
• ranslation of works by African American writers
• discussions of student-selected works
• audiotapes and videotapes or literary works
• readings by parents, neighbors, and community members

Encouraged activities

Readings of auto/biographies of African American contributors to the content areas of science, mathematics, drama, art, music, performing arts, athletics, writing, and history

Sources of literature

• school libraries
• public libraries
• elementary science units
• elementary social studies units
• literature reading series
• literature anthologies
• your students and your colleagues
• Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, Emerge, and other African American magazines and journals

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