Back to School

Just some archive photos of school projects and shots of the kids going to school!

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In the 18th Century a slave,  Phyllis Wheatley had to study at night in her room. African American girls weren't allowed in school, but she was taught to read and write by her owners. More here:First Published African American Woman.

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I write after all my work is done!

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The girls are anxious to go to school.

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Updated vintage chalk board with map!

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Chalk and erasers made of toothpicks and sticky foam/felt.

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Revitalized baby changing table. Tutorial on the chalkboard and cabinet are HERE.

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Lots of supplies.

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An ancient computer.

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Working at the dining room table.

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First day of school. Smile!

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History is a great subject.

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The girls think so.

Fold-up Classroom and others for diorama posts are HERE.

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We know who that is, George Washington!

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"Class, General and then President Washington was praised in a poem by a young slave girl, Phillis Wheatley. Please for homework, read her poem and write another  poem or story about someone you admire in History. Class dismissed!"

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"What I tried to say about President Washington was, First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen."

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Black History Month: The first published African American

Do you know who was the first African American to be published? You would be surprised to know it was a 20 year-old slave named Phillis Wheatley in 1773.

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Phillis Wheatley born in 1753 in Gambia/Senegal, Africa. A young girl was captured by slave traders and arrived the colonies  in 1761 on the ship, “the Phillis.” Bought by the prominent  Wheatley family in Boston to serve as a personal maid. The young slave was named Phillis and took the last name of Wheatley. Phillis was precocious and quickly learned English, Latin and Greek along with the Wheatley children. She held a favored position in the Wheatley family and yet was still a slave.

courtesy of American Antiquarian Society 

Phillis wrote poetry through her youth influenced by Neoclassical poets. Conventional for the times she wrote poems on morality, piety, and freedom. 

Wheatleys first book, “ Poems on Various things. Religious, and Moral,” was published in 1773 in London, Eventually she was published in America, and is considered the first African American to be published.

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Phillis Wheatley represented an Abolishonists’ dream, an example of an educated black woman from Africa, a testimony that blacks could be both artistic and intellectual. 

 In 1776 she wrote to George Washington including a poem for him.

Thee, first in peace and honors—we demand

The grace and glory of thy maritial band.

Fam’d for the valour, for the virutes more, 

Hear every tongue the guardian aid implore!

Upon his invitation Phillis later met George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She carried on correspondence with various notables of the day, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John-Paul Jones and many religious leaders and members of the abolition movement, here and abroad. 

Freed prior to the death of the Wheatleys, the children also died in young adulthood, leaving Phillis to fend for herself after a life of comfort and privilege. She died in poverty at the age of thirty-one.

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She is immortalized on a Boston common in bronze.

Boston Woman’s Memorial byArtist Meredith Bergmann

The memorial of three women who made significant contributions for Boston.

Abigal Adams:Phyllis Wheatley:Lucy Stone

More can be found here: 

https://www.boston.gov/departments/womens-advancement/boston-womens-memorial

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phillis-Wheatley/media/641615/216609 

Abigal Adams:Phyllis Wheatley:Lucy Stone

More can be found here: 

https://www.boston.gov/departments/womens-advancement/boston-womens-memorial

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phillis-Wheatley/media/641615/216609 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

and on numerous poetry sites.

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