This resource activity pack gives KS3 students opportunities to engage with poetry, explore ideas around audience and performance, and build their communication skills. The power of your words blew me away' Michelle Obama, TIME Resources She revealed us to ourselves' Lin-Manuel Miranda, TIME 'She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. This special edition, which includes an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, marks that poem and offers us courage, consolation and the inspiration to make change. Her poem, ' The Hill We Climb', addressed the country and reached across the world: a call for a brave future. On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman spoke a message of truth and hope to millions.Īged twenty-two, she delivered a poetry reading at the inauguration of US President Joe Biden. With emphasis on prevention, harm reduction, mental health education, and evidence-based relevant programs, Affirming YOUth will work with you to help you find the light, “for there is always light.Home About Lit in Colour Read the report Teachers Students Parents and supporters The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman One organization that is dedicated to merging mercy with might and might with right by empowering the youth and families in Liberty City, Miami, Florida is Affirming YOUth Foundation, Inc. Gorman put it best, “we will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation… But one thing is certain, if we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.” While the country may be broken and bruised, we remain bold and free.
While the past four years have been tarnished with racism and divisive attitudes, it seems as though we are at the beginning of an era of redemption. “ doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think American needs to reconcile with.” Gorman told The New York Times that she hopes her poem inspires hope and healing, without ignoring the country’s history of racism and violence. Days before the inauguration ceremony, Ms. Gorman’s work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization. Meet Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. It’s the past we step into and how we repair it.” It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit. That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare.
If we’re to live up to her own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made. “Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.
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