BEING WHO WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO BECOME

Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits feature many women who are both well known to us and also, not as familiar. The stories are all significant and important. At a local community college, a group is featuring truth teller’s portraits in poster form and having students create a “Living Timeline” representing the chronological , sequential role of these women in the context of the times they live(d) in then and now.This is an excellent way to help students put the life’s work of a woman in relationship to all else going on around her. There is great power in that for some students as they are better able to make sense of a life when they understand it.Here are the portraits being used in this timeline. Feel free to create your own using a theme or other manner of putting the portrait in a context. In the weeks to come we’ll post themed groups of portraits from the women in the series for you to consider with your students.They are shown here as follows: Emma Tenayuca      Lily Yeh     Marian Wright Edelman      Winona LaDuke  Betty BurkesFannie Lou Hamer   Teri Blanton  Eva Paterson  Frances Perkins    Shirley Chisholm   Zora Neale Hurston    Sojourner Truth