Toni Morrison One-Pager

This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal

Toni Morrison, The Nation op-ed (2015)

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Hey y’all! So this is the post that started this blog! I recently shared on Twitter and Facebook that I would be introducing English/Language Arts (ELA) to incoming freshmen at my school. I could not think of a better way to do this than to discuss our national treasure who passed on my wedding anniversary, Toni Morrison.

I was personally profoundly impacted by The Bluest Eye and Sula when I read them, especially as a survivor of sexual abuse. I had never read a book or story from an African American female character before reading her writings. While the stories were sad, I certainly began to feel that I was not alone in my fight.

I am an artist who became an English teacher, therefore, there is much art done in my class. However, I did not want the new high scholars to be too intimidated so I drew an image of Morrison in the middle of the page and hand-lettered her name along the side. This one-pager lesson will not only be their introduction to ELA; this will be an introduction to sketchnotes, creativity and words that will live forever from a prolific and profound writer.

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