Repost of Thoughts on a new Historical Fiction short short series on Sundays

Ann and Anna will continue, eventually, as they now include little Tilly in their daring plan to escape enslavement in MD: will it work?

Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

It is interesting to me how a story can grab you, or maybe the characters in a story grab you, and refuse to let you go until you’ve told their story. That is what has happened since this previous Sunday, and the day that began with a bad dream, has ended this week with hope. I guess that is what stories are supposed to do, no?

The series will be tagged Ann&Anna, although I can’t get that ampersand symbol to take as part of the tag on WordPress. Some of this comes out of my own family history, but I hope that we will all be able enjoy it. Ann and Anna, Number 1, posted back on Sunday. Number 2 will be this coming Sunday.

And, Dear Readers, I also hope that this series will move you to learn more ways to help use our history to build…

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Ranty Repost of Power Generation At Home, and Libraries: The Common Good

Repost of a bewilderingly ignored but easy to solve issue: everyone should have a pedal or hand-crank electronics gadgets charger, as #ProjectDoBetter plans for,    free of charge!

Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

        This  idea of having a pedal-powered TV, and a hand-crank laptop and phone charger, especially, is still gnawing away at me.  Everyone I know that I have suggested this idea to has laughed at me, but I keep remembering how  Mr. Kamkwamba, the 14 year old boy in the film The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, built that wind turbine in Africa thanks to having a school library with books that helped him figure out how to build it (Ejiofor, 2019), and powered a well pump that saved his entire village.    I’ve also read that a lady somewhere in either the US or the UK even wrote her entire debut novel using a pedal-power laptop, yet still got laughed at when I mentioned this individual and practical example.  Now I see that the idea is in fact in use, but not in any community…

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pretrial diversion is Phase I

I do not currently recall on what pages this issue of pre-trial interventions and diversions is mentioned (Phase I…), but it is important for community action, in the

Do Better Man.

collaboration with learners

project do better suggest strongly that communities begin working to change laws and policies in their state and county related to pretrial interventions starting now, in Phase 1. Communities are of course welcome to edit their own local editions of the project do better manual if they wish.

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Oops, Taking Off The Month of June, Instead

   I have been very tired, and  I still need to take a month off entirely, so that I can work on my WiP 

But, I see that I have already scheduled many more posts than I though I had, ahead of time for the month of May, so I guess I’ll have to move that break to June.

Still, please when I am away in June, please share and spread the word about how we need to connect all of the advocacy work that we are doing across areas, like health care, housing, transportation, and libraries and especially consumer and debt related education, because it is all related an interconnected, and advocates and activists seem to be very separated into their own individual areas of interest, without connecting it all together into one large picture, as is done by   

Shira

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Learning through story:

                                                   Babylon5, Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem,  Lupin,  La Casa de Papel/Money Heist, or El Ministerio del Tiempo Reviews

Learning via Holistic College Algebra & GED/High School Lesson Plans,

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 Learning from Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction Writing (including Ann & Anna…)

#ProjectDoBetter

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

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Taking Off The Month of May

   I have been very tired, and need to take a month off entirely, although I have already scheduled posts for two days per week in May, to which I may or may not respond before June.

While I am away, please share and spread the word about   

Shira

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Click here for:

Learning through story:

                                                   Babylon5, Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem,  Lupin,  La Casa de Papel/Money Heist, or El Ministerio del Tiempo Reviews

Learning via Holistic College Algebra & GED/High School Lesson Plans,

           or

 Learning from Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction Writing (including Ann & Anna…)

#ProjectDoBetter

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

ShiraDest

Shira Destinie Jones’ work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Moody Mondays, and your own story as motivation to work for Justice for All?

This led, though I did not yet know it, to Project Do Better, over a decade later…

Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

Everyone has a story.

Everyone also has some motive for what one does in life, quite likely shaped in some way by previous life experiences, every one of whose is unique.

Racism started my quest, but as I learned that racism is merely a tool used to divide all of us to more easily rule, I looked to our legal structures for the change needed to keep all of us safe in equal measure.

Here is where much of my motivation for doing my part to change the world comes from:

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Injustice Essay, UDC´s David C. Clarke Antioch School of Law

I must admit to finding this essay one of the most unsettling and emotionally difficult to write pieces in my writing career. While there are certainly more cutting incidents and more superficially significant incidents which I have experienced in my forty two years, I have chosen to…

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Repost of Day 55/67: Five Month GED, Linear Inequalities, and Health Care —Continuous Learning, Project Do Better

So, why do you think that it may be important to understand linear inequalities   as they relate to Health Care, especially to health care outcomes for Black, Latino, and White Americans? Today’s reading: “Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) lead to large coverage gains, some groups remain at higher risk of being uninsured, lacking […]

Day 55/67: Five Month GED, Linear Inequalities, and Health Care — Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

Repost of Day 51/67: Five Month GED, Linear Relationships, and Free Text Books by ShiraDest

So, what is a linear relationship, and why should we care?  Earlier lessons have started on this topic, so you should already have a few hints!        Some volunteer libraries of freely available open source text books are available, and of high quality.  By searching carefully, you can find the resources to help you […]

Day 51/67: Five Month GED, Linear Relationships, and Free Text Books — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Tracing Black Family History, via Black Nuns

More relevant than it was three years ago, now, and Project Do Better learns from these histories, in order to teach…

Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

This post is even more relevant now, than two years ago:

Tracing one’s family, particularly a family full of mostly Enslaved Persons, and some Free People of Color (free before the Civil War and subject to the Black Codes in most states), means learning the language of genealogy, and then learning your own family language, with names that run in families, especially middle names, and have certain meanings known only to the inner circle at that time. In order to survive, each of those People of Color had to decide and choose which hill they wanted to die upon: the hill of passing for White, in some cases, despite loosing family to do so, the hill of fighting to educate Colored people, despite the many hurtles, as my 2xs great grandfather and his daughter, in her turn, did, or the hill, today, of bearing the torch to help educate all…

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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

Today is the day, in 1931, on which this Nobel Laureate and exemplary writer was born.     I look back to the words of Toni Morrison, that we need dreamers to dream of new possibilities for shaping our world, new ways of being, ways that move us toward caring for each other, toward making it […]

Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story