Teaching "The Women of Brewster Place"? Use BOTH the book & the 1989 miniseries 📖🎬 After 25 years in the classroom, I'm telling you - this text is GOLD for teaching adaptation, representation, structure, AND multiple Common Core standards all at once. Confession: I didn't read the book until 20 years after watching it. But once I did? Game changer for my curriculum. That cast (Oprah, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens, Jackée, Lynn Whitfield, Lonette McKee, Paula Kelly) brought every type of Black wom

The Women of Brewster Place

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Sitting prominently on North Huron, the Ladies’ Library building at 130 N Huron is one of Ypsilanti’s most recognizable landmarks. Built in 1858 for local merchant Edwin Mills, this Italianate home later became the residence of Mary Ann Starkweather, who donated it to the Ladies’ Library Association in 1890 so it could serve the community as a public library until 1964. Architecturally, it’s a classic Italianate showpiece: tall, narrow windows, wide eaves with brackets, and a strong, symmetrical

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