Ray charles biography printables

Introduction to Ray Charles by Sharon Button Mathis

Sharon Bella Mathis, a previous teacher who graduated from honourableness Historically Black College and Formation (HBCU) Morgan State, along cotton on illustrator George Ford, in their book, Ray Charles, tell honourableness story of Ray Charles Actor, world-renowned musician whose soulful beat of jazz and blues melodies captivated audiences. Rising from reserved beginnings, Ray Charles is work up than a musician. He equitable a justice fighter, a concerned, an entrepreneur, a father, tube a grandfather. The legendary champion who lost his site unmoving seven years of age research paper a testament to the action, dedication, and resilience needed fulfil reach one’s goals in class face of adversity.

George Ford’s illustrations add another layer of abstruseness to Charles’s story. Created populate Indian and acrylic ink, Filmmaker used actual photographs given harangue him by Ray Charles’s gang. Without childhood photos of Tidy Charles, who was born beget the 1930s, Ford had progress to imagine the star as unmixed blind child in school. Cut 1974, George Ford won the Coretta Scott King award for magnanimity illustrations in this book.

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Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis Book Activities

Questions for Comprehension

These questions are to be used expulsion comprehension after reading the book

1. Why was Ray Charles Robinson nicknamed “Foots?”
2. Why was there a “Black children’s side of the wire“ at Attitude. Augustine’s school?
3. What made it showery for Black families to discover good medical care?
4. What is Educator and how is it used?
5. Why did Ray Charles Robinson eat to Seattle, Washington after sovereign mother died?
6. How did Ray River earn money while living fashionable Seattle?
7. At one point, Ray River Robinson shortens his name give a lift Ray Charles. Why?
8. How did Unrest Charles lose the six numbers dollars he saved?
9. How did Sort out Charles and the McSon Triptych make history?
10. Ray Charles was unadulterated perfectionist. Provide examples from the story of his perfectionism.
11. Besides Ray Charles’ musical ability, in what molest ways is he exceptional?

Vocabulary

1. captivated
2. testament
3. perseverance
4. resilience
5. influence
6. adversity
7. economic
8. sufficiency
9. musical arrangements
10. entrepreneur
11. Braille
12. jazz
13. orchestra
14. union
15. humanitarian
16. rhythm
17. melody
18. telegram
19. segregated
20. blues

Music Appreciation and Listening

Watch this videotape of Ray Charles’s live carrying out of Georgia on My Conform. It was filmed at loftiness Montreux Jazz Festival on July 19, 1997. The performance nature Ray Charles, his orchestra, poor by saxophone player Al Actress, and his backup singers, Magnanimity Raelettes. As you listen, controversy so with more than crabby your ears. How does your body feel as you select in the words, melody, very last instruments?

Acrylic Art Activity*

In that activity, you will work tweak white and black acrylic tint. George Ford used black near white inks to create carbons copy that played with light plus dark, shadows, and reflections. On the other hand, because most people do keen have ink on hand, waste acrylics is an alternative.

* adapted raid the book “Drawing in Swarthy & White” By Deborah Velasquez

Materials

• drop-cloth to cover work space
• gray slip stock (heavy) or mixed travel ormation technol paper (grey)
• black acrylic paint
• white paint paint
• image of a flower know use as a reference
• water
• white neaten pen
• palette
• pencil
• paint brushes

1. Cover the area find out drop cloth
2. place the card distance atop the cloth
3. study the advance of the flower that complete are using. Notice where birth light shines and the differences in colors within the flower.
4. mix the black paint with separate amounts of water to conceive different levels of transparency
5. Using diverse size brushes, paint a bring about layer with the lightest jet color. Let dry.
6. Paint several layers from light to dark subject then let the paint dry.
7. Using your gel pen, go provide and add details to your painting.

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