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Educational and fun audiobooks for children and families. A variety of genres await and each podcast comes with podcast specific questions assessing retrieval, sequencing, SPaG, prediction, inference and note taking skills. Ideal as an independent classroom activity, intervention exercise OR homework task.
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Friday Aug 14, 2020
Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around The World episode 7
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Episode 7 - Vera Rubin, Yayoi Kusama, Toni Morrison and Ester Mahlangu
Vera Rubin
Who was Vera’s inspiration?
Why did she get turned away from Princeton?
What subject did Vera study at Vassar College?
What did Vera prove most of our galaxy was made of?
Yayoi Kusama
Why do you think her parents ‘did not approve of art as a career’?
What is a ‘happening’?
What was the symbolism of using dots? What did they represent?
Where else might to see a room covered with mirrors – especially one that might confuse you…?
Toni Morrison
Why did Toni hear her family’s stories and not write/read them?
Who were her favourite authors growing up?
Why might the girl in ‘The bluest eyes’ have felt ugly? What ist just about eye colour…?
Which awards has she won?
Ester Mahlangu
What do the women paint in Ndebele culture? Would you like to do this?
Where did Ester work? How do you think this helped her art?
How did she make her paint?
Why do you think she never used pinks and neons in her work before?
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