Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad: Texts and Sources


















In Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad, books and multimodal materials form the core that supplements the curriculum and enhances integrated curriculum efforts.

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Books mattered. In literary societies, literature and reading various texts were at the heart of all their pursuits and literacy learning goals. They read diverse literature to enrich their minds and also to cultivate their identities, skills, intellect, and criticality. p137

Using Text to Cultivate the Genius in Students and Teachers: p147 to 155
Eight Days A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat My Name Is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams Becoming Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama Turning Pages My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Leontyne Price Voice of a Century by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou

Educators "layer texts" when they teach and learn from powerful and multimodal texts. These texts are print and nonprint and are intellectually compelling. p147

Primary Sources at The Library of Congress:

The Brownies' Book

Freedom's Journal The First African-American Newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon 
Worldcat Results (available at Seattle Public Library and some college libraries)

Freedom's Journal Poetry Sources: (p 143)

The complete poems of William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant 
(Available on Kindle $ .99)
Includes "The African Chief"

The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley by Phyllis Wheatley (Available on Kindle $3.65)
Includes "(An) Hymn Humanity" and "(An) Hymn to the Morning"

"Forget Me Not" by F. G. Halleck, Google Books
The Yorkshire Literary Annual

"On the Poetic Muse" by George Moses Horton, p144
(complete poem)

Other sources for George Moses Horton and many other primary/secondary sources can be found at:
Documenting the American South

Biography and Other Sources

Picture Book Biography:

Poet The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate

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