Monday, 26 August 2013
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Morning. I was fearful that the children would be under dressed as we walked out the door. You never know what the weather would be from one day to the next in Ohio.
We read excerpts from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and then, Maya Angelou's biography, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou described the difficulty near impossibility of getting ahead for a black person of her time. I love her grandmother's morning prayer, "Our Father, thank you for letting me see this new day. Thank you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on last night to be my cooling board. Guide my feet this day along the straight and narrow and help me put a bridle upon my tongue. Bless this house and everyone in it. Thank you. Amen.".
Angelou said during her time in Stamps, she met and fell in love with William Shakespeare because he said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes..." which was a state she felt herself most familiar.
Bryan and Breeanna humored me by attempting to follow along in my reading of the troubled lives of people long ago until I continued to ply them with Kennedy's Inaugural Address, at which point they rebelled with various interruptions. Their punishment was minutes of jumping up and down: 1 minute for interrupting my reading, another for whining about the justification for the interruption and another for talking back, 3 in all. The school bus arrived and saved them from the full execution of their punishment.
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