One Christmas Eve by: Langston Hughes: 12 Days of Reading African American Christmas Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-17 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Opportunity in 1933!!! What!!! It was written by Langston Hughes. It gives a glimpse into the life of a mama. Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley Read With Ursula 2023-02-01 | @ReadWithUrsula Celebrates Black History Month with Poet Phillis Wheatley. We are taught Shakespeare, but I can't believe her poetry is not as celebrated. She is the epitome of "Your gift will make room for you! She was brought to Boston as a slave at 7 years old. The Wheatley's taught her how to read and write and help get her poems published.
Shakespeare Sonnet 3 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Sonnet 3folger.eduThe poet urges the young man to reflect on his own image in a mirror. Just as the young man’s mother sees her own youthful self reflected in the face of her son, so someday the young man should be able to look at his son’s face and see reflected his own youth. If the young man decides to die childless, all these faces and images die with him.
Shakespeare Sonnet 4 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Sonnet 4folger.eduThe poet returns to the idea of beauty as treasure that should be invested for profit. Here, the young man’s refusal to beget a child is likened to his spending inherited wealth on himself rather than investing it or sharing it generously.
Shakespeare Sonnet 5 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Sonnet 5folger.eduIn this first of two linked sonnets, the poet compares the young man to summer and its flowers, doomed to be destroyed by winter. Even though summer inevitably dies, he argues, its flowers can be distilled into perfume. The beauty of the flowers and thereby the essence of summer are thus preserved.
Shakespeare Sonnet 6 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 6folger.edu explanationContinuing the argument from s. , the poet urges the young man to produce a child, and thus distill his own summerlike essence. The poet then returns to the beauty-as-treasure metaphor and proposes that the lending of treasure for profit—i.e., usury—is not forbidden by law when the borrower is happy with the bargain. If the young man lends his beauty and gets in return enormous wealth in the form of children, Death will be helpless to destroy him, since he will continue to live in his offspring.
Shakespeare Sonnet 7 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Sonnet 7folger.edu explanationThis sonnet traces the path of the sun across the sky, noting that mortals gaze in admiration at the rising and the noonday sun. When the sun begins to set, says the poet, it is no longer an attraction. Such is the path that the young man’s life will follow—a blaze of glory followed by descent into obscurity—unless he begets a son.
Shakespeare Sonnet 8 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 8What are your thoughts?folger.edu explanationThe poet observes the young man listening to music without pleasure, and suggests that the young man hears in the harmony produced by the instrument’s individual but conjoined strings an accusation about his refusing to play his part in the concord of “sire and child and happy mother.”
Shakespeare Sonnet 9 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 9 What did you think?Folger.edu explanationThe poet argues that if the young man refuses to marry for fear of someday leaving behind a grieving widow, he is ignoring the worldwide grief that will be caused if he dies single, leaving behind no heir to his beauty.
Shakespeare Sonnet 10 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 10 explanation folger.eduThis sonnet, expanding the couplet that closes s. , accuses the young man of a murderous hatred against himself and his family line and urges him to so transform himself that his inner being corresponds to his outer graciousness and kindness.Note: I skipped 11 (Offensive to women who couldn't bare children)
Shakespeare Sonnet 12 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 12 Please Comment Below! Enjoy!!folger.edu explanationAs he observes the motion of the clock and the movement of all living things toward death and decay, the poet faces the fact that the young man’s beauty will be destroyed by Time. Nothing besides offspring, he argues, can defy Time’s scythe.
Shakespeare Sonnet 13 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Shakespeare Sonnet 13 please enjoy share and subscribe. If you have a request for me to read, let me know.folger.edu explanationThe poet argues that the young man, in refusing to prepare for old age and death by producing a child, is like a spendthrift who fails to care for his family mansion, allowing it to be destroyed by the wind and the cold of winter.
Shakespeare Sonnet 2 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Sonnet 2 Explanation from folger.eduThe poet challenges the young man to imagine two different futures, one in which he dies childless, the other in which he leaves behind a son. In the first, the young man will waste the uninvested treasure of his youthful beauty. In the other, though still himself subject to the ravages of time, his child’s beauty will witness the father’s wise investment of this treasure.
Shakespeare Sonnet 1 Read With Ursula 2023-01-20 | @ReadWithUrsula Reads Shakespeare: Sonnet 1Explanation from Folger.eduIn this first of many sonnets about the briefness of human life, the poet reminds the young man that time and death will destroy even the fairest of living things. Only if they reproduce themselves will their beauty survive. The young man’s refusal to beget a child is therefore self-destructive and wasteful.
I Have A Dream Speech Read With Ursula 2023-01-16 | @ReadWithUrsula I Have A Dream by MLK. Read by Ursula and her kid.
Mollies Best Christmas Gift 1882: 12 Days of Reading African American Christmas Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-21 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Christian Recorder in 1882!!! What!!! It was written by Mary E. Lee. What is the real meaning of Christma? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
Elsies Christmas by Salem Tutt Whitney 1912 : 12 Days of Reading Christmas Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-20 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Indianapolis Freeman in 1912!!! What!!! It was written by Salem Tutt Whitney. This story reminds us what matters most. Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
Fannie Maes Christmas: 12 Days of Reading African American Christmas Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-19 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Christian Recorder in 1921!!! What!!! It was written by Katherine Davis Tillman. This story reminds us what matters most. Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
It Came to Pass: A Christmas Story : 12 Days of Christmas Reading African American American Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-18 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Chicago Defender in 1939!!! What!!! It was written by Bruce L. Reynolds. When all that we have is not enough, what can we do? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
It Came to Pass: A Christmas Story : 12 Days of Christmas Reading African American American Stories Read With Ursula 2022-12-18 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Chicago Defender in 1939!!! What!!! It was written by Bruce L. Reynolds. When all that we have is not enough, what can we do? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY : 12 DAYS OF READING AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS STORIES Read With Ursula 2022-12-16 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Opportunity in 1925!!! What!!! It was written by Louis Lorenzo Redding. How far would you go for love? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
The Autobiography of a Dollar Bill Read With Ursula 2022-12-15 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in The Colored American Magazine in 1904!!! What!!! It was written by Lelia Plummer. It tells the story of a boy named Jackie who finds friendship is worth more than money. Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
Merry Christmas Eve: 12 Days of Reading African American Christmas Stories for adults Read With Ursula 2022-12-14 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Baltimore Afro American in 1948!!! What!!! It was written by Adele Hamlin. Will she be in an unhappy relationship or choose herself? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
A Christmas Party that Prevented a Split in the Church: 12 Days of Christmas Readings for adults Read With Ursula 2022-12-13 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Baltimore Afro American in 1916!!! What!!! It was written by Margaret Black. Church gossip is on the menu! It's so unbelievable that the description of church folk in the early 1900s mirror the the same things today. What is the gossip all about? Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
12 Days of Reading African American Christmas Stories: A Christmas Story 1885 Read With Ursula 2022-12-12 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in Christian Recorder on December 24, 1883!!! What!!! It was written by Carrie Jane Thomas. How amazing there writings are! Schools didn't teach us about Black authors in the 1800s. Let's dive in! For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
12 Days of African American Christmas Stories for adults: White Christmas 1953 Read With Ursula 2022-12-11 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in Baltimore Afro American in 1953! It was written by Valena Minor Williams. This story shows that somethings still haven't changed. For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
12 Days of Christmas African American Stories :The Christmas Reunion Down at Martinsville 1894 Read With Ursula 2022-12-10 | @ReadWithUrsula is reading 12 Days of Christmas stories written by African American authors. This story was published in the Indianapolis Freeman in 1894! It was written by Augustus M. Hodges. It gives us a glimpse of what African American life was like in the 1890's. For more stories, get your copy of " A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" by Bettye Collier-Thomas amzn.to/3ULOkjR
