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Smart Songs is an educational music group founded in 2008 by Shoeless Jeff (Jeff DuJardin) and Scott Free (Scott Geer). [1] According to the group’s website www.SmartSongs.org, the mission of Smart Songs is to “provide kids and teachers with fun and educational hip hop that makes learning fun.” [2] Media sources ABC News Los Angeles and BostonInno.com have described the group as the ...
Best poems for kids Between nursery rhymes, storybooks (especially Dr. Seuss), and singalongs, children are surrounded by poetry every single day without even realizing. Besides just bringing joy ...
The book was praised by various press outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, [5] The Dallas Morning News, [2] The Boston Globe, [6] and The New York Times. [7]In particular, the book is praised for focusing on the poetics of hip hop music rather than examining the outlying societal factors—the Los Angeles Times noted, “As a key part of America's youth culture and a central battlefield in ...
In rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound [1] [2] [3] rhymes, polysyllable [1] [4] [5] rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis [1]) are rhymes that contain two or more syllables [1] [6] An example is as follows: This is my last race / I’m at a fast pace
The red Prada headband she donned at the inauguration of President Joe Biden sold out within seconds of its debut. Honored as the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, the 22-year-old ...
While touring nationally and abroad, he and the group developed the “Hip Hop and Poetry Saved My Life” workshop aimed toward at-risk youth. In 2009, the group was one of the first hip-hop acts to perform at the Clearwater Festival [2] which helped to secure Decora's place on Hudson Valley's list of People to Watch in 2012. [3]
Hip Hop Harry performing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus. Hip Hop Harry is an American children's television series created by Claude Brooks that aired on Discovery Kids and TLC as part of the Ready Set Learn! block from September 25, 2006 to June 26, 2008.
"I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [1] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...