Grace Morgan - Gold Project
Congratulations to our 2023 Senior,Grace Morgan who will receive a Gold Award from the Girl Scouts this summer. Grace completed a self-directed community service project at Seven Oaks to satisfy the eligibility requirements for the Girl Scouts’ highest award.
Grace was curious to discover more about works of art and literature by under-represented minorities and/or persons of color. Specifically, she wanted to study these works with analytical techniques students use when exploring the classical canon. Grace researched several works and led a discussion for Seven Oaks faculty, staff, and students about American poet Phillis Wheatley and Puerto Rican artist Ramón Frade.
Seven Oaks has been blessed by Grace’s own creativity, too. She worked with Miss Teska to design a beautiful mural near the Refectory. The mural memorializes a quote from Wheatley’s poem, “On Virtue.”
Congratulations, and thank you, Grace!
Resource List:
Picture Book Biographies:
❖ In Her Hands: The Story of Augusta Savage by Alan Schroeder
❖ Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill
❖ My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez by Monica Brown
❖ She Persisted: Maria Tallchief by Christine Day
❖ When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan
More Stories and Picture Books
❖ Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
❖ Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
❖ This is the Rope: a story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
❖ Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
❖ The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
❖ Spirit of the cedar people: more stories and paintings of Chief Lelooska edited
by Christine Normandin
❖ Wisdom Tales from Around the World by Heather Forest
Middle and High School
❖ Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (2001)
❖ Ain’t I A Woman by Sojourner Truth
❖ Habor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
❖ Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
❖ Poems of Phillis Wheatley
❖ Olio by Tyehimba Jess
❖ A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
Artists
❖ Ramon Frade
❖ Romare Bearden
❖ Henry Ossawa Tanner
❖ Edmonia Lewis