Emerald Eyes Yemasees: Student Activity Book: Student Activity Book

By Dr. Louchrisa Ford High

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 8, 2010
• ISBN: 9781462822898

Dr. Louchrisa Ford High

Louchrisa Ford High was educated in the public schools of Georgetown, South Carolina, and graduated with honors from Howard High School at the age of fourteen. She attended South Carolina State University where she majored in music education with piano and clarinet as her major instruments. She graduated with the highest average in her class in 1963. Dr. High obtained the Master of Science Degree in Music (1972) and Doctorate Degree in Educational Administration (1988) from Tennessee State University. She received a national award from Phi Delta Kappa for her doctoral dissertation entitled, “A History of Black Music and Biographics of Selected Black Composers.” In 1984, Dr. High was evaluated by the Tennessee State Department of Education and was successful in achieving the highest level on the Career Ladder for excellence in teaching. In 1992, she was selected as an “Outstanding Woman in Nashville.” In 1993, she was the recipient of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association’s Ted Martin Human Relations Award for being a dedicated teacher and humanitarian. In 1994, Dr. High received the Colonel Aide de Camp recognition from the Governor of Tennessee for being honored as an Educator of Excellence. She also won the prestigious National Council of Negro Women’s Excellence in Training Award.

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Emerald Eyes Yemasees

Student Activity Book

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Louchrisa Ford High

Copyright © 2010 by Louchrisa Ford High.

Illustrator: Will Owen

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

This book was printed in the United States of America.

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Contents

EMERALD EYES YEMASEES The Story

ACTIVITY 1

ACTIVITY 2

ACTIVITY 3

ACTIVITY 4

ACTIVITY 5

ACTIVITY 6

ACTIVITY 7

ACTIVITY 8

ACTIVITY 9

Part I

Part II

ACTIVITY 10

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my special needs daughter, LaShawne Edwina High, for her inspiration and collaboration in creating the story of the Yemasees; and to my grandchildren, KaStarr Bianca High, and Brittany Almena High, for their love and devotion.

EMERALD EYES YEMASEES The Story

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Once upon a time in the small quaint plantation town of Arcadia, South Carolina, there lived a very unusual looking slave family. They had green eyes, and hence, they were called the Emerald Eyes Yemasees. Legend has it that the slave owner, Colonel Dorcus, forbade the Yemasees to look up or to allow the sun to cast its rays in their eyes. The Yemasees were told that if they did not follow this order, a bad curse would befall all of the Yemasees, and they would be doomed to