Jasmine’S Journey: (I Know I Been Changed)
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Jasmine does not like middle school at all. With her father away in the army, Jasmine struggles to endure every boring day of eighth grade. Desperate to escape her unhappy reality, Jasmine etches her feelings into her desk in an effort to prove that she really is a mean kid. As the days drag on, it seems nothing is going to pull Jasmine out of her misery.
Although her teacher, Mrs. Truth, is excited to teach the students about African history and culture, Jasmine is less than enthused. But after Mrs. Truth introduces Jasmine to a ten-year-old African American historian, Garvey leads Jasmine on an educational journey of self-discovery where she soon realizes that learning can be fun.
Jasmines Journey is the tale of a middle schoolers challenges as she battles personal obstacles and learns an important lesson that she is as great as those who came before her.
Livingston Holloway
Livingston Holloway earned a Master of Education and began his career as an elementary teacher. He has worked as a School Improvement Director, Funded Programs Director, and Assistant Superintendent in several public school districts. Now retired, Livingston resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jasmine’S Journey - Livingston Holloway
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ISBN: 978-1-4917-6266-0 (sc)
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iUniverse rev. date: 3/9/2015
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 At DC Woodson Middle School
Chapter 2 The Next Day
Chapter 3 Lunch and Learn
Chapter 4 Inside Mrs. Truth’s Transformed Classroom
Chapter 5 Day Three: The National Museum of African Art
Chapter 6 At Grandma’s House
Chapter 7 Day Four: At Jasmine’s Home
Chapter 8 In DC Woodson’s Library Media Center
Chapter 9 Jasmine’s Journey
Chapter 10 Graduation Day
Chapter 11 Jasmine’s Journey (Summertime)
Jasmine’s Favorite Historical Figures
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Illustrator
Dedication
To Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford
Former principal of the Crispus Attucks School (PS 21) in Brooklyn, New York
Former vice chancellor of the NewYork State Board of Regents
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels beneath her,
Still she sings away—all the same—knowing that she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
0.jpgACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to Mars Alma and the iUniverse staff for its professional attention to the compiling of this book. Also a special thanks to Pamela Holloway, Cecelia Johnson, Takada Walls, Nzingha Abena (Queen Mother), Erica Blake, Tony Williams aka Professor Tony, Dorothy Williams, Link Lacille and the entire Lacille family, Germaul Barnes, Germaine Behagen, Phyllis Smith, Kimberly Johnson, Betty Vandegrift-Greene, Indigo Gill, Songhay Parham, Hortensia Gooding, Zahir, Lydia, and Dr. Felicia El-Amin.
1.jpgDC Woodson Middle School
CHAPTER 1
At DC Woodson Middle School
I hate it here. It’s boring here. I don’t want to be here. I have to get out of here. It’s boring here. I don’t want to be here!
2.jpgJasmine wrote on her desk.
I wrote that on my desk, top to bottom, in the classroom. Then I took out my blue highlighter and drew pictures of hearts in my class notebook. As I drew, I thought about my dad. My dad was in the US Army. I missed him. I stopped drawing. I sat still and thought a little more: Some folks think that troublemakers are annoying people who just want attention. And you know what? A lot of them are. But I am not a troublemaker. It’s just that it’s boring here. I don’t like it here. I have to get