![]() How can and does she continue to inspire people today? Ask students to identify characteristics of Harriet Tubman that made her such a prominent figure in history.Use the author’s note to introduce slavery and incorporate into a bigger unit. Read her bio and have students make similarities between her books. Create a reading theme around the author, who has published many social justice titles. ![]() She teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Ages 5–8.Ĭarole Boston Weatherford is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections and poetic biographies, including Sugar Hill and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, and the NAACP Image Award. ![]() Tomorrow, I flee.” A foreword introduces the concept of slavery for children and an author’s note includes a brief biography of Tubman. ![]() ‘I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free.’ The twinkling star encourages Tubman: “My mind is made up. In response, “God speaks in a whip-poor-will’s song. On the eve of her being sold and torn from her family, Tubman prays in her despair. Carole Boston Weatherford depicts Harriet Tubman’s initial escape from slavery and her mission to lead others to freedom as divinely inspired, and achieved by steadfast faith and prayer. ![]()
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