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Cultural Curriculum Chat with Jebeh Edmunds
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Season 4 Episode #20 Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City that Grew Prince Rogers Nelson Book Review
Are you ready to embark on a musical journey that will not only entertain but also enlighten? Prepare to be captivated by Angela Joy's vivid portrayal of Prince, a musical icon and beacon of hope for every kid who has ever felt out of place in this world. This episode brings you an immersive review of Joy's book "Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City that Grew Prince Rogers Nelson". We delve into Prince's life story, highlighting his humble beginnings and tumultuous rise to fame. We also explore the profound symbolism of purple and rain in the narrative. Plus, you won't want to miss how Joy's connection to Prince and her Minnesotan roots influenced her writing.
Shifting gears, we turn our focus towards the importance of diversity in our educational system, sharing enriching multicultural resources that align with US Common Core standards. We introduce over 55 multicultural lesson plans available on our website, certain to instill a deeper appreciation for diversity in young minds. Don't miss our recommendations which include "Ordinary Days", "The Seeds Sound", and "City That Grew, Prince Rogers Nelson", books that are as entertaining as they are educational. The cultural and educational journey continues next week; trust me, you wouldn't want to miss it!
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Welcome back to the podcast. So excited you are back with me today. Our book review is titled Ordinary Days the Seeds, sound and City that Grew Prince Rogers Nelson. It's written by Angela Joy, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcantara, and I'm so excited to share with you this book. I found it at Barnes Noble a couple months ago and it is a really nice biography. Angela Joy, I didn't know, is a Minnesota author. She has another book I'm going to do another review on, so keep that in mind called Choosing Brave how Mimi Till Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement. That's a Cattle-Cot Honor and Cyber Honor Book Award.
Speaker 1:Angela Joy was born and raised in North Minneapolis, in only a half a block from where Prince called home, and that is really cool. She was also trained in music it says here in her bio here and she performed live with Prince in 1999 at Madison Square Garden. She has such a deep connection with Prince Rogers Nelson. I love how Angela talks about the overall theme of purple and rain, because that was one of his most iconic songs Purple Rain, but it talks about in on ordinary days. You could see him, and I quote a beautiful boy, but small, with a smile given only to lilacs growing between broken sidewalks, carrying in his pockets a sound end quote Talks about Prince and his very harsh upbringing, but also the joy in between. It talks about the duality of Prince trying to find the beauty in the hardships, things that he was not allowed to have. There's a piano in his home and he was never allowed to touch, but he would still have the sounds and the beats and even, like she said too, of life in his home that needed to be a sound that will create.
Speaker 1:I think, students that are in crisis or even in transition could relate to Prince's life story. It talks in this page that he didn't have roots and how his ordinary home was not ordinary. It said it was like he blew around like a petal in the wind and he would go from his mama's house to his auntie's house, to his papa's house and he was very lonely and very angry and a lot of students in transition would really feel that they could place himself and be represented of. Wow. He was a child like me who didn't know any consistency in life, wasn't sure about you, know how his life would turn out, and seeing and reading this book really helps me, as a resource person, to share that students with musical talents are feeling like, wow.
Speaker 1:I could see that representation in myself, with princes, of seeing themselves as also petals in the wind, in not really finding their roots, but seeing that princess was a success story in who he was in the beginning. That didn't define him in the end, this icon of a creator, a singer, a writer in the future, living in poverty and seeing things that a lot of people take for granted, like going to get ice cream and milkshakes and french fries, to using the community that was in North Minneapolis where he grew up, and finding friends. But also and reading the author's note, I didn't know that Prince's nickname was Skipper. I thought that was a really fun fact Belonging to the people but also feeling isolated at the same time, and then leaning to his friend's home to explore his music and explore his art. So it's a beautiful biography that I would suggest would be for third grade, all the way to sixth grade, for learning about Prince's light, especially his early life of creating his sound. I love how it talks about his friend Andre and starting their first band, grand Central, and Miss Bernadette who took him in and let him be who he was, in safety and in comfort of his community. But it also talks about the juxtaposition of lightning and rain and the clouds that would be bellowing in his shadows as he started to take root and created his music and in this page is one of my favorite with sadness, friendship, faith and fear he released into the atmosphere where just outside the crowd could hear the rain come down.
Speaker 1:She is quite the poet, Angela Joy, and the illustrations of purple Prince's favorite color that Jacqueline created. You'll see the buildings of First Avenue, one of the main venues. That even was in his movie that he was in Purple Rain In Minnesota. He is our son and it talks about his life and even talks about what I really appreciate. Angela talks about even his death but also talks about his life in a way that he had a circle of friends and true friends but also had things in his life that were flawed and she illustrates that in her writing that elementary to middle school students can understand without being really too, and she makes it in a way that students can understand developmentally and it's appropriate.
Speaker 1:So I really really love this book.
Speaker 1:I'm keeping this book. I just love Prince. He's one of my favorite artists that I've followed since I can remember and it also has a family playlist, which I would love that she has on the back, that you can play one of the songs in your classroom and your students can really listen to his work. But I'm sure a majority of your students do know Prince, but if they don't, they're gonna learn about his life and just another awesome African-American icon that everybody needs to know.
Speaker 1:This is a really good biography, folks, so be sure to get yourself a copy wherever books are sold and you can have it all year long, you know, and not just take it out on the shelves for Black History Month.
Speaker 1:This should be in your classroom library all year long, and if you want to refresh and revamp your and if you want to refresh and revamp your classroom curricula, please go to my website, jevahedmundscom forward slash shop, where you can find over 55 multicultural educational lesson plans right there on my website that you can download today and be ready to pair up a lesson with a book that I've recommended in my lesson plans that you can use to learn more about in my lesson plans that you can use that is culturally appropriate and safe. That you can use. That is culturally appropriate as well as fitting in our US Common Core educational standards. That's all that I have for you today. Be sure to find ordinary days, the seeds sound, and city that grew, prince Rogers Nelson, written by Angela Joy and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcantara. Thanks again for listening to the cultural curriculum chat. I will see you here same time next week. Bye, bye.