JASS Voice Dept

Voice Department (English, French, ESL and CSI(library)) at Jean Augustine Secondary School in the PDSB. Instagram: @JASSVoice

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Ss in NBE3C are using their voices to create podcasts about their learning, opinions and connections to short graphic stories from The Place: 150 Years Retold.

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Cumuler différentes identités, appartenir à plusieurs minorités à la fois ou encore subir de multiples formes de discrimination. L’intersectionnalité, c’est cette pluralité.

(FSF 4U student work).

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French students at Jean Augustine have also been learning about prominent Black French Canadians. Enjoy some of their profiles!

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Two profiles created by grade 9 English students were of Professor Cheryl Thompson & Janaya Khan, activist and co-founder of BLM Toronto.

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Students also used @elamin88 ’s brilliant personal essay “A Father’s Letter to an Infant Daughter” to spark each student telling the story of their own names. https://t.co/nAOkmaOMCQ

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Students in Grade 9 Destreamed English at JASS have been developing research skills & showing learning by making infographics featuring prominent Black Canadians. We will feature their work over the next several days!

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Grateful for the opportunity today to learn from the Honourable Dr. Jean Augustine herself who shared her journey and wisdom with several @PeelSchools including ours! She ended by reminding Ss to believe in themselves & their resilience b/c they can create real change.

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Do you like fantasy? Romance? Drama? Check out one of these amazing reads available in the CSI, all written by Black authors and all binge-worthy!

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Looking for your next read? Consider one of these incredible novels, all by Black women. These books will have you flipping pages!
Come sign them out in the CSI!

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Check these out from the CSI!
Tomi Adeyemi is a writer&creative writing coach born in the US to Nigerian immigrants. She is the author of the award winning Legacy of Orisha series The 3rd book in the series is expected to be released shortly and will be added to our collection!

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M.J. Fievre is an educator and writer from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of the Badass Black Girl series, which includes the books Badass Black Girl and Empowered Black Girl.

Come check out one or all three in the CSI!

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Come to the CSI to check out Blackout which features 6 short stories from 6 bestselling and award-winning authors!

The six stories feature 6 diff couples, all interlinked in this charming& & hilarious narrative set in NYC during a summer electrical blackout.

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Another Brampton author, Ian Williams,is an English prof at UofT &author of 6 books of fiction, non-fiction,&poetry.
Reproduction follows the story of Felicia and Edgar who meet as their mothers are dying.
Come take it out in the CSI!

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@JASSinnovation is part of @JASSVoice and for BHM will be highlighting Black voices for Jean students to (literally!) check out.

Jael Richardson is a Brampton resident &founder/ExecDirector for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD).Gutter Child is available in the CSI!

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Malorie Blackman is the author of Noughts and Crosses,a lit circle (graphic novel) in Gr9/Gr10 English. Blackman is a British author who has numerous published works &also writes for TV.
Noughts and Crosses presents a world that explores a reversal of systemic anti-Black racism

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Esi Edugyan is a Ghanian Canadian author. Her novel Washington Black is a lit circle option in Gr12 University English.
Washington Black follows the incredible and unlikely journey of an eleven-year-old field slave who is mentored by an eccentric explorer, set in the mid 1800s.

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Tony Medina is a poet, scholar, and children's book author. His graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones is an option in Grade 9 & Grade 10
Alfonso is killed while buying a suit and wakes up in the afterlife on a ghost train surrounded by other ghosts of victims of police shootings.