Nov 30/Dec 1, Tues/ Wed, preamble chapt 3/ Gullah connection/ graphic organizer

In class: 1.Reading the preamble to chapter 3. The cutural connection is the  Gullah Geechee people of the United States (See map) and how Trevor Noah's words in the preamble are reflective of this vibrant community today.

2. Visiuals where these Americans live today

3. Collect notebooks. New Page title: Blue Window Trim, 11/30

.  Read Blue Window Trim by Patricia Sawyer

In a couple of sentences, what is the theme of this poem and what text within the poem supports this?

4.. Individually watching a contemporary video on the Gullah Geechee people. See link below (6:05)

5.  Filling in the graphic organizer below. As usual, copy onto a google doc and share at dorothy.parker@rcsdk12.org   (suggestion: copy the organizer and complete as you watch the video.)

Gullah refers to the people who live in the Sea Islands; however, in Georgia they refer to their language a Geechee.

Penn Center

photograph of Martin Luther King at his place at the Penn Center

The Penn School, one of the country's first schools for formerly enslaved individuals.

Penn Center is a significant African American historical and cultural institutions in existence today. They are located on St. Helena Island, one of the most beautiful and historically distinct of the South Carolina Sea Islands, and at the heart of Gullah culture.

Blue Window Trim -

sea island natives living reminders of trade cotton rice and indigo gullah life is made five benne wafers cast into new daylight the hudu spell is torn away rest easy then this night bridges came and baskets sold the younguns moved to town rich men came and stole our land again to trod us down But some have stayed to tell the tales of how our world began of lands and cultures far away before man had ever owned man

"We adopted the religion of our colonizers, but most people held on to the old ancestral ways, too, just in case. In South Africa, faith in the Holy Trinity exists quite comfortably alongside belief in witchcraft, in casting spells and putting curses on one’s enemies." Trevor Noah

Preamble for chapter 3:

1.We come from a country where people are more likely to visit sangomas—shamans, traditional healers, pejoratively known as witch doctors—than they are to visit doctors of Western medicine. I come from a country where people have been arrested and tried for witchcraft—in a court of law. I’m not talking about the 1700s. I’m talking about five years ago. I remember a man being on trial for striking another person with lightning. 

2. That happens a lot in the homelands. There are no tall buildings, few tall trees, nothing between you and the sky, so people get hit by lightning all the time. And when someone gets killed by lightning, everyone knows it’s because somebody used Mother Nature to take out a hit. So if you had a beef with the guy who got killed, someone will accuse you of murder and the police will come knocking. “Mr. Noah, you’ve been accused of murder. You used witchcraft to kill David Kibuuka by causing him to be struck by lightning.”

3. “What is the evidence?”

“The evidence is that David Kibuuka got struck by lightning and it wasn’t even raining.”

And you go to trial. The court is presided over by a judge. There is a docket. There is a prosecutor. Your defense attorney has to prove lack of motive, go through the crime-scene forensics, present a staunch defense. And your attorney’s argument can’t be “Witchcraft isn’t real.” No, no, no. You’ll lose.

Gullah history and culture 6:05

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